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DrewJW wrote:Has anyone used fully synthetic Silkolene oil in their Pcx? i'd be curious to hear what they thought of it, and how it looked after a few thousand miles, compared to the normal standard stuff.

OldGuy wrote:The two dealers here within 10 miles, don't even stock the recommended oil (Pro Honda 10w30 MB rated) they do carry it in 10w40 grade. It is a synthetic blend, from what I have read. The manual for the 2015 PCX 150 does say to use "motorcycle" oil. The only motorcycle oil I saw at Walmart was mostly 15w50 or thicker oils, and MA jaso rated. It is my feeling that FUll synthetic 10w30 would be better that motorcycle oils which are usually blended for air cooled wet clutch engines. As I stated elsewhere "Bob the oil guy" on the internet performed wear tests on many oils, including racing oils that are not street legal, and Pennzoil full synthetic 5w30 was by far the most wear resistant 115,000 pounds pressure before it gave up. Mobile-One was good to about 105,000. He did not test Pro Honda oils, but did about 70 different oils, Amisol (name?) etc.. The surprising thing to me was the thicker oils did not beat the 30w and even some lower 0w20s in wear protection. I paid almost $10 for Penzoil 10-30 at PepBoys, the 5-30 was about the same price. My PCX currently has about 1740 miles on it., I plan to change my own oil at 25k, unless it looks dirty before that.