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2 year old motul 300v, to use? or not to use?

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Anyone know if oil goes bad? I read on Motul website that its garuntee 2 year shelf life.

I bought 3 litres of Motul 300v from 2 years ago, and I haven't touched them, they are sealed but sat out in my shed since I bought them.

Would you guys say its safe to use still? or get new oil? I mean $18.99 for a litre aint cheap, so I would want to use them still but I don't know if it will hurt my bike or not. Thoughts?
 
Nope.. no good. However I'd buy them off you for $10/L

Also what's an interesting tid bit is gpbikes has a 4L jug on sale for a tad cheaper than 3 of the 1L containers.
 
Oil does not go bad. Brake fluid that has been opened does though. Perfectly fine to use.
 
Yes it will be fine.Btw...not to start an oil thread.But Motul 300V is not an oil to be used in your average streetbike.It is made for high rpm race motors.Way overkill!
 
taximan62 said:
Oil does not go bad. Brake fluid that has been opened does though. Perfectly fine to use.
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Oil will technically oxidize after "a while"... who knows how long that would take in unopened containers. The plastic the bottles were made of would probably break down first. So if after a hundred years the bottles start to weep oil, then maybe you should be concerned
 
Wingboy said:
Yes it will be fine.Btw...not to start an oil thread.But Motul 300V is not an oil to be used in your average streetbike.It is made for high rpm race motors.Way overkill!
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Yah, I bought it 2 years ago wen I thought I was gonna go on the track, but I never did. LOL so now I have 3 litres of this oil sitting here and figured why not just use it for the spring oil change.
 
The only thing I could worry about is the drastic temperature range it was subjected too over the years in a shed and if it collected moisture. But I guess that will burn out of the oil pretty soon after being installed?


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sparkybp said:
The only thing I could worry about is the drastic temperature range it was subjected too over the years in a shed and if it collected moisture. But I guess that will burn out of the oil pretty soon after being installed?


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This is what I was concerned about too, it sat out in the shed for 2 years. But it's in the bike now lol
 
Maybe watch the sight glass as it progresses see if moisture develops and sticks to the sight glass.


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Moisture/condensation is not going to get into a sealed container.

The stuff is not biodegradable (that's why it's a huge environmental problem if it gets out where it shouldn't).

It's fine. The only reason a sealed container of motor oil from the 1920s would not be good today is not that it has gone "bad", but rather that it has become "obsolete". It will do just fine in a Ford Model T that was built in the same era that the oil came from.
 
This puts my mind at ease as well. I bought a cRRRap load of synthetic, pennies on the $, at CTC about three yrs. ago will take forever to use up.
 
DoubleJ said:
Oh man is this thread for real!:lmao:
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Go ahead and laugh all you want LOL, I even thought it was a funny question to ask. But better safe than sorry, I got very terrible luck with things and dumping aged oil into my bike would seem like one of those things that would blow up my bike lol
 
TwistedKestrel said:
Oil will technically oxidize after "a while"... who knows how long that would take in unopened containers. The plastic the bottles were made of would probably break down first. So if after a hundred years the bottles start to weep oil, then maybe you should be concerned
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oh crap, now I'm going to have to toss out all those glass bottles of Mcgillicuddy's petroleum distillate (recommended for the Flying Merkel).
 
CafeRay said:
oh crap, now I'm going to have to toss out all those glass bottles of Mcgillicuddy's petroleum distillate (recommended for the Flying Merkel).
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You're in luck then, because the glass containers increases the shelf life to probably at least a million years. Of the container, anyway. Your oil may have experienced some separation by that point
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