Reclaimed oil

[Poundshop Dave]

Is this good or bad? apparently it's cleansed oil that is suitable for motorcycles at 50p a litre. This means the next GPZ oil and filter change will cost £2. I had a free filter on a buy one get one free offer. So realistically it's oil with all the impurities taken out and cleaned for rock bottom price. I fancy having a pop for £2, has anyone had any experience with reclaimed oil?
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[arry]

When non reclaimed oil is, or can be, less than a score for 5 litres - reclaimed oil is something I'd not consider on the grounds of immaterial cost difference.

[Poundshop Dave]

OK arry, thank you for that. It's just me being cheap.
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[Azoth]

Interesting... Didn't know about that stuff. Do they say it's a particular viscosity, e.g. 10W40? Doesn't oil get thinned out as well as dirty when it's used? How do they restore the viscosity?
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[Poundshop Dave]

Good question Tawny, I don't know and I never asked. I just heard 50p a litre and my eyes lit up.
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[jaffa90]

No thanks, what about the additives and detergents you get in new oil?
Also if you have a wet clutch will it drag or slip ?

[P.]

I'd run it in a shit box commuter.

[Kickstart]

Hi

I would assume (and hope) that they have just extracted the base oil from the waste oil, and added fresh additives to it.

All the best

Katy
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[wr6133]

I'm as tightfisted as they come and even I wouldn't use reclaimed oil when 5L of 10W40 is around £12 in Home Bargains, B&M, Wilko's, etc.

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

How do they put the broken molecules back together?

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[RhynoCZ]

Is reclaimed the same as recycled? My English skills fail me.

If it is, then it's got basicly the same properties as the brand new oil. Which is one of the reasons countries don't have extra tax rebates on recycled oil (regenerated petroleum products) anymore, as you can't tell the difference. Italians, iirc, had a tax rebate on recycled oil when imported. What many people did you ask? Well, claimed they transport recycled oil, eventhough they were transporting brand new, never used before, oil. Then selling it as a brand new oil in the destination of their transportation, effectively commiting tax evasion.

Sorry, now I remember, it was Italy, and Italy had tax rebate on recycled oil, which coincidentaly was largely made in Italy. So anyone else who was importing engine/gear oil to Italy (within the common market), had to pay higher taxes. C-21/79 C v. Italy
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[weasley]

One thing about recycled or re-refined oil is that you can only make low performance end products from it. This is because the oil you start with is a mixture of who-knows-what-went-into-the-waste-oil-barrel, meaning you get effectively the lowest denominator out. You also generally only get thicker oils, because in use, the lighter molecules evaporate.

That said, in the end you do get an oil indistinguishable from 'virgin' oil of a similar performance, so long as you are only after a basic oil.

If 'reclaimed' means oil taken from engines, filtered a bit and bottled then ahm oot.
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[Rogerborg]

I guess we'll just have to keep guessing, since I guess this is from some secret, limited supply that can't be shared.
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[kramdra]

Does it come from the big waste tank at the tip, where we also pour fork oil, brake fluid, coolant and any other shit they dont take seperately?

Im sure it would be fine on a low performance car or shit bike, but change it more often. I used to drain the cbr6 oil, which was expensive motul, filtered and into the 125's. The gearbox is noticably happier than with cheap shit oil.

[RhynoCZ]

Well, oil degradation might be an issue, but the bigger issue is the engine metal particles getting loose into the oil, slowly turning a lubricant into a abrasive fluid. Those particles sure can be filtered away. I understand it, they use synthetic oils for the recycle procedure. Modern synthetic oils are very durable. With an ''simple'' laboratory test they can tell if the final product of the recyclation is fit to be used or not.

They do sell the recycled oil as fit to use, don't they? Also, rumor has it many companies are selling engine oils, that were made by recycling used oil. So the odds are you are already using it, without knowing it.
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