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Do the 5L Rotella T6 jugs ever go on sale?

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Do any of you T6 veterans know if the 5L go on sale ever? I don't have interest in buying the pails... . I'm paying more buying it in 5L jugs but I like that it has the measurement window, easier to deal with in general.

I never see the 5L jugs on sale at Canadian Tire of the T6. Usually it's the pails, and even then, the T4. I'm currently paying about $50 for a 5L bottle of T6. Not bad @ $25 per oil change even at full price, but might as well try and save some money and stock up on sale.

So ya long story short... T6 on sale, and where?
 
I use Rotella T4 in pails. I keep two clean 4 L Rotella jugs and I just decant into these until full, then pour back into the pail until I have 3.4 L in the jug as this is the precise amount I need for an oil/filter change. Once I have the 3.4 L I just pour it in and no fussing to measure or estimate the remainder in a 4 L or 5 L jug. If you have the space to keep a pail this is the best value and it's not too much of a hassle.
 
Fyi, Rotella isn't the quality oriented. They are more budget oils. There are reasons why people still don't use them even though they are cheap.

Motul 7100 makes my engine and transmission shift so much better. I rather put honda dyno oil over Rotella.
 
jemlinus said:
Fyi, Rotella isn't the quality oriented. They are more budget oils. There are reasons why people still don't use them even though they are cheap.

Motul 7100 makes my engine and transmission shift so much better. I rather put honda dyno oil over Rotella.
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I don't want to make this thread a oil debate. but I don't disagree. I do frequent oil changes so I don't mind using T6. I wouldn't use it for long intervals. Motul 7100 is great, just expensive.
 
KWDRZ said:
I wonder if there was a limit. That's insane. And thats the T6 synthetic you're talking about? I'd get 10.
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there was no limits but it was out of stock when i ordered mine, had to do raincheck but i didnt buy 10 lol, bought like 5 and a buddy bought some off me for the same price,

recently i bought a 18l pail from CT with a 15% off + $ 30 CT card.
 
JavaFan said:
$21.99 for a US gallon @ TSC
in the US....we get hosed up here

and I've been using it for years
people can lecture all they want
I likes my T6
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Great to know. I'm in Buffalo once and a while. Definitely will be getting some.
 
jemlinus said:
Fyi, Rotella isn't the quality oriented. They are more budget oils. There are reasons why people still don't use them even though they are cheap.

Motul 7100 makes my engine and transmission shift so much better. I rather put honda dyno oil over Rotella.
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I will never understand the obsession over using Rotella. Can’t go wrong with a decent motorcycle specific oil and spend what an extra $10-20 over the course of a riding season. Yeah no thanks to the fleet oil for me.

I kind of get it in OP’s case though if doing frequent changes but even then I would only bother in an application that needed frequent changes.
 
blackcamaro said:
I will never understand the obsession over using Rotella. Can’t go wrong with a decent motorcycle specific oil and spend what an extra $10-20 over the course of a riding season. Yeah no thanks to the fleet oil for me.

I kind of get it in OP’s case though if doing frequent changes but even then I would only bother in an application that needed frequent changes.
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I agree, unless you're racing, any MC spec motor oil will do. Motorcycles require frequent oil changes because small high powered engines contaminate their oil quickly, mostly because of blowby. The primary benefit of synthetic oil is resistance to breakdown from shear, something you might experience in a MOTO GP bike. No matter how hard you try, you will not breakdown regular oil faster than you will contaminate it -- cancelling the benefit of synthetic almost completely.

That said, a red or purple sight glass looks cool on a street bike.

Rotella is popular because it doesn't include friction modifiers, this makes it compatible with MC clutches. I have a few old girls -- 50, 43, 38 and 36 years old -- been using Rotella T4 since 1980 and not a single one has had a lubrication related failure. I use it in my late model FJR and Vstrom too -- both seem quite happy.
 
When i go to the States i usually buy for a year a two. Considerably cheaper. I guess i’m not the only one though. A few times WalMarts in Niagara Falls US were out of stock.
 
JavaFan said:
$21.99 for a US gallon @ TSC
in the US....we get hosed up here

and I've been using it for years
people can lecture all they want
I likes my T6
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I don’t know about hosed. A US gallon is less than 4 L. You end up paying 1.35 exchange rate plus the NY sales tax. It becomes a wash assuming you declare it when crossing and pay the HST although realistically they should wave you through in anything under $150 per person. I kept hearing how cheap it was in the US and then realized it was easier and cheaper to just buy an 18L pail up here when they go on sale and split it with a friend (or more)
 
Mad Mike said:
Rotella is popular because it doesn't include friction modifiers, this makes it compatible with MC clutches. I have a few old girls -- 50, 43, 38 and 36 years old -- been using Rotella T4 since 1980 and not a single one has had a lubrication related failure. I use it in my late model FJR and Vstrom too -- both seem quite happy.
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My 2002 ST was designed in the late 80's and produced 1990 - 2002 and does not require synthetic. Rotella is perfect and dirt cheap. Aside from my positive experience I know dozens of people using Rotella on high mileage bikes (150,000 - 250,000 km) and no one, ever, has had any oil related issues.
 
A long time ago I raced an EX500. Racing a stock motored EX500 is easy, winning with a stock motored EX500 is not.
When you start modifying EX500 motors for power, you make firecrackers.
I was going through a lot of motors, so were other people racing EX500s. It seemed I was forever building motors, for my self and two other well known EX500 racers of the time.
I always had 5 or 6 spare/core motors around.
I ALWAYS knew when I was splitting the cases, if I could smell diesel oil; the left side big end was done. EVERY TIME.

... on the other hand, EX500s will spit up crankshafts running ANY oil. They are not very good at over revving.
I tend to use Rotella on older low revving motors. If it is going to hit 10,000 rpm: it's getting better oil.
 
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