| Author | Message | ||
     Roly |
hi anyone here have to top their oil up between a service. done a service on the city x for the first time . nice and easy to do apart from getting the oil filter off.think it was put on dry.used a turbo diesel oil mineral . high spec . | ||
| Perry |
It's pretty standard for an XB to require oil top-offs between changes. These bikes use oil, typically more so for the first 3K miles or so. Can you give more info on the oil you used? Seems the common wisdom is to go with either the factory recommended stuff or a high quality synthetic (mobil-1 is popular). | ||
| Midknyte |
Will use more when ridden hard. Will also give the appearance of using oil if you over-fill... | ||
| Tiburondriver47 |
Mine use to use oil till it got down to the halfway mark and then stay there for a lot longer. If i fill it back up it would go down to the middle mark again. If you take off your air box you will probably see oil residue in front of your 2 breather hoses in the air box and i had some on the front edge of the rubber velocity stack, when i put the open air box kit in i no longer have that problem. I believe that under high throttle the throttle body pulls the oil out of the breather tubes. | ||
| Roly |
hi perry said in the manuel that you can use car diesel oil grade CF-4,15/40. | ||
| Bmwdavid |
My Uly XB12X at 2,000 miles on an oil change and oil level at slightly less than half way full on the dip stick has not used any oil. The bike has 3,300 total miles. I'm using Mobil 1 V-Twin 20W-50. Mobil 1 15W-50 gold cap would work just as well. David | ||
| The_new_guy |
Interesting. I've got 6100 miles and 3 oil changes on mine and have never had to add. The oil level really does not even drop noticably between changes.  My bike rules! | ||
| The_new_guy |
I shouldn't have been so quick to say that! | ||
| Bumblebee |
Sure wish mine used that little oil.  | ||
| Reducati |
seems if you have the oil level at the lower end of the full mark, it doesnt burn much, when you fill it all the way to the top end of the full mark, you need to keep adding it. | ||
| Prof_stack |
No additional oil needed between 5k mile changes. I must have broken it in properly!  | ||
| Nutsnbolt |
I run the synthetic and I run the P!$$ out of my bike, hard and fast, and I have yet to add any oil. Seems to hold it quite well. |
