Polaris oil question
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Polaris oil question
Been reading the forum for years, seen lots of posts that say you need to use polaris oil in polaris machines or bad things will happen, my question is, who makes Polaris oil? I think it is put out for bid and goes to the low bidder and I dont like that idea, I personally refuse to use any of it exept the demand drive for the front diff,I only use that cause I havent found a good substititeSo what do you guys think?
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If I was a betting man, I'd say that mobile 1 makes the oil for polaris. A couple years ago when I started using mobile over the popo oil, mobile was the only oil I could find around here that was synthetic 0w-40. I doubt an oil company is going to make a oil exclusively for polaris. More like, this is what we can provide you , we'll just slap a polaris sticker on it and away you go.
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I've seen and read some UOA's (Used Oil Analysis) on Polaris oil... nothing to brag about for sure. Many better options.
Polaris can choose to have certain "specs" for the oil when they request it. It could be the same oil as brand "X", if the manufacturer is producing an oil that meets those specs. If not, the refinery/manufacturer makes the necessary changes. It's probably much cheaper for Polaris to go with a product that is already being produced... and I'm also betting that's the way they go.
Polaris can choose to have certain "specs" for the oil when they request it. It could be the same oil as brand "X", if the manufacturer is producing an oil that meets those specs. If not, the refinery/manufacturer makes the necessary changes. It's probably much cheaper for Polaris to go with a product that is already being produced... and I'm also betting that's the way they go.