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Offline robh

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Motul Oil
« on: February 18, 2007, 09:39:14 PM »
I've now got a wholesale account with Motul.

Still working on setting up my company and website, it's taking longer than planned.

PM me if you need anything from Motul, I will do 10% off the retail price.  Bear in mind the high spec race stuff like 300V isn't cheap.

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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2007, 08:09:54 AM »
Can you put up some specs or give us a reason why motul is the shizzle? I know Rex was into it but he also used castrol R in his URQ and reconed it made his engine quiet and smooth as. I put it in my old 200 which was a dumb and expencive mistake seeing as it still used a litre every more than you want it too ::) had to go and spend $70 for a 4 litre pack everytime you wanted to top it up.  I use this thick as goop 15/40 now that works great cause its clean and cheap as chips :)
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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2007, 08:16:31 AM »
Have a read of their website http://www.motul.com


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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2007, 10:16:39 AM »
I have 300V 10W40 in the S2 at the moment. I found with Mobil 1 I always had to overfill on track days to stop tappet noise after a few laps (oil surge I guess?). Then I ended up with burning oil from the over fill.
I guess that's probably down to the viscosity of the oil when really hot: it seems better with the Motul, but it's a crazy price. Any other Motul you'd suggest that's cheaper, but still fully synthetic?
I'll PM for a price next time I change.
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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2007, 11:14:26 AM »
it's really 300V which as you say is expensive, or 4100 which is semi synthetic, but is still a great oil.
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orggti

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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2007, 01:40:07 PM »
Never over fill a car, if you are getting tappet noise its because the engine has got hot to the point where the clearences have gotten bigger and ther will be a bit more valve train noise, as long as your oil pressure light stays out you are fine. noisy tappets are better than quiet ones as at least you still have clearance and the valves will be closing properly. Lots of engines get a little tappety when hot dont worry about it and dont over fill the car you will blow oil seals and have the crank thrashing around in oil.
 
 Anybody disagree with me?
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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2007, 04:06:26 PM »
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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2007, 06:56:47 PM »
Can you get a Technical Data Sheet for the 300V 5w-40?
I can find 2 on the net but both are old and differ.
Would be good to know what they are actually selling.

Thanks.
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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2007, 07:45:53 PM »
Do you mean "300V Power 5w40"?
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mototm

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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2007, 09:16:35 AM »
Quote from: robh on February 19, 2007, 07:45:53 PM
Do you mean "300V Power 5w40"?
Yeah, that would be the one.
Thanks.
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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2007, 09:35:29 AM »
Quote from: orggti on February 19, 2007, 01:40:07 PM
Never over fill a car...

Thanks for the advice... it seemed the only way to keep it quite at the track, and the tappets were getting really noisy. But yeah, afterwards it was a worry around town as I'd burn oil when sitting still till the level got lower. Oil pressure was in normal range, but oil temp did get quite high.

I haven't had this problem at all since going to the 300V Motul.
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orggti

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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2007, 08:40:15 PM »
Quote from: SimonS2 on February 20, 2007, 09:35:29 AM
Thanks for the advice... it seemed the only way to keep it quite at the track, and the tappets were getting really noisy. But yeah, afterwards it was a worry around town as I'd burn oil when sitting still till the level got lower. Oil pressure was in normal range, but oil temp did get quite high.

I haven't had this problem at all since going to the 300V Motul.
well that is an excellent advertizement for Motul! How many Kms has your 20v done?
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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2007, 09:25:04 AM »
Done about 120K Km now. Does not seem to get through any significant ammount of oil between changes yet.
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orggti

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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2007, 09:27:34 AM »
Did it use oil on the castrol?
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Re: Motul Oil
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2007, 09:01:48 PM »
Was Mobil 1... couldn't say if it used more or less oil with that. Never really got through much, apart from a leak a while back around the temp sensor.

One thought with the rattle is perhaps the Mobil 1 going in was a bit 'thin' for the age of the car: CCS have always done the change (every year since 1995), but I didn't check what grade of Mobile 1 they used. Otherwise it could be the Motul is better at high temp (get's hot and sloshes around a lot at Taupo -little oil fire when the turbo feed leaked showed that  :-[)

Anyway, I don't drive that much so this is not very scientific. Will keep and eye on the Motul use and tappet noise when it's hot.
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