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    • For 2-and 4-stroke motorcycle engines
    • Recommended for liquid or air-cooled engines
    • Optimum gear protection under extreme pressure
    • Especially for Suzuki, Kawaski & Yamaha motorbikes
    • 4-stroke engine oil with ester additives
    • Guarantees pefect technical performances
    • Perfectly for on- and off-track dirt bike riders
    • E.g. in Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Husqvarna
    • Protects gear, bearing, piston and clutch
    • semi-synthetic engine oil with green colour
    • for 4-stroke small engines
    • Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki, Peugeot, Polaris etc.
    • semi-synthetic engine oil with ester additive
    • for motorbikes with wet and oil lubricated clutches
    • meets JASO MA, MA2
    • especially for Suzuki, Kawasaki and Yamaha motorcycles
    • 4-stroke engine oil with Ester-Technology
    • suitable for motorcycles, scooter, sport bikes, quads etc.
    • fully synthetic 4-stroke motorcycle oil
    • designed for racing and normal road use
    • ASO MA2 T903:2016 (M049RAV165) Approval

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Buy engine oil for motorcycles/scooters online at ATO24

The essential difference of 2-stroke or 4-stroke engines and the engine of a car is that a motorcycle / scooter often has only one oil. The oil thus not only lubricates the engine or the brakes, but all at once. In addition motorcycles / scooters engines ride at higher speeds. The oil thus reached significantly higher temperatures. Therefore, the 2-stroke and 4-stroke engines require a different oil than a car. Pro motorcycle / scooter, there is a different requirement of the oil. The SAE viscosities are the important index. A typical oil viscosity for the motorcycle / scooter is a SAE 10W-40. A 10W oil is quite fluid. A 20W-50 is also a suitable oil and thicker in consistency as a 10W-40. To choose the right one just look inside the motorcycle / scooter manual.

 

Choose your liters of engine oil

2-stroke or 4-stroke engines require less liters of engine oil, as a car engine. These few liters must also withstand enormous conditions. For this reason, you should use only a high quality oil. With us you get the typical Castrol oil for engines, but also many other top oils. We will advise you about which oil is suitable for your engine and how many liters they need.


Buy 10W-40 Oil: Huge selection, top prices

In the ATO24 online store you get exactly the right 10W-40 engine oil for your vehicle! In addition to top prices, we offer you reliable advice and help you find the right 10W-40 oil.


The viscosity SAE 10W-40 belongs next to 5W-30 to the most demanded engine oil viscosity. But what exactly does 10W-40 actually mean and why are there so many different oils despite the same viscosity? We will clarify these and other questions in the course of this blog article.

What does 10W-40 mean?

10W40 stands for a multigrade viscosity. Correctly written out as 10W-40, the two viscosity indexes given, 10W and 40, refer to all-season use (suitability for winter and summer use). These multigrade oils were developed over 50 years ago and were intended to replace the procedure of having to change oil at summer and winter time. The viscosity specification in cold (10W) and warm (40) viscosity indicates the oil's flowability at high and low temperatures.

10W stands for the flowability in winter (this is where the W index comes from). The value 10 is not a directly measurable value of a certain unit but an index number. The lower the number before the W, the better the flowability at cold temperatures and cold starts. A 5W-30 engine oil therefore has better flow properties in cold conditions than a 10W-40 engine oil.

The number 40 stands for the flowability of the oil at a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius. Again, the lower the number, the lower the viscosity at a temperature of 100 degrees. Accordingly, a 10w40 engine oil is more viscous than a 0W-30 engine oil.

Buy 10W-40: Here's what to keep in mind!

Even if the vehicle manual recommends a 10w-40 engine oil, the right 10W40 oil is not immediately found. When buying a 10W-40, attention must be paid to the prescribed specification and release. They represent the particular chemical properties of an oil.

10W-40 engine oil approvals

As always, your vehicle may require a release in addition to the 10W-40 viscosity. These approvals are listed on the bottle label next to the specifications. The best known approvals are those of BMW (e.g. LL-04), VW (e.g. VW 507 00) and Mercedes Benz (e.g. MB 251.0). The approvals with the engine oil are comparable with a quality seal of the automobile manufacturers. Thus this manufacturer issues a certain chemical characteristic of oils, which must be fulfilled, in order to be permissible for the cars from the own product series.

What engine oil approvals occur together with viscosity SAE 10W-40? Among many others, are common engine oils of the following releases and recommendations 10W-40 engine oils:

 

What is the difference between 10W-30 and 10W-40?

Both viscosities share the winter property "10W", which means that they have the same properties at low temperatures and cold start. The indices 30 and 40 refer to a difference at high temperatures. Thus, the 10W-40 shows a slightly higher viscosity at high operating temperatures. This difference can be advantageous if the engine has oil losses with a 10W-30 motor oil.