Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Service schedule

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Actually, Benelli are saying "Boss! You have got this machine to ride and not to confine it to show case. Better ride 1000 km every month"

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It looks like mature/getting mature riders are appreciating Benelli 300. My friend who has duke 200 has the same issue now. Whenever he wants to ride slow/relaxed and potter around, he cant. He feels the sound feels strained and want to fly right from the word GO.

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4 months/4K KMs is very less for the oil filter and oil change. We are not living in dark age for God's sake. I have a car which requires service only once a year and 15K KM for oil and filter change. Do you know what service intervals Kawasaki has for Ninja 300 and Z250? Benelli 300 is a nice bike and I would mostly book it during Diwali time, its just that the service station is far off and going there every 4 months feels like a pain.

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Do you realise that car's and bike's internals are not related? A motorcycle idles at 1300-1600 RPM wherein cars have turbo spooling near this range. Cars have slower moving internals, hence less damage to oil. Bikes have quick movements in the engine hence the oil has to work super hard!
N300 has 5k intervals.

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I guess basic mechanical remains same and the reason for using oil remains same. Thanks for you valuable inputs.

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Hi owners. A question about tyre pressure.

The sales guys at the showroom asked me to maintain a pressure of:
33 PSI - Front
38 PSI - Rear

I nodded my head and left. The manual says something else
Solo riding
30 PSI - Front
33 PSI - Rear

I went by the manual and brought it down to 30 and 33. What about you guys?

Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

The service interval basically depends on what is the performance level of the engine. Just like our body. A sprinters diet is not the same as that of a marathoner. While street cars are marathoners, you can compare bikes to sprinters. Sprinters work on sudden burst of motion hence need stronger muscles. By strong I mean work done per unit time is more for sprinters. Hence they eat more frequently and that too much of protein. Thus for bikes the service interval is more frequent than that of cars. Look at motogp, they perform way beyond what any road bike does and service interval is like 1-2 sessions only which is like 100-200km at max. Same goes for F1 cars. A cars engine in proportion to a bike engine is very slow. So, less maintenance.
Talking a about same internals. It's actually saying that no matter if you run or walk 1km, your body will use same amount of calories and hence will require same about of food to recover. That's definitely not what goes on.

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I am keeping it at 33 and 36 as per manual (recommended for riding with pillion) and also during service this was told to me.

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Slight correction here; the N300 has a 10,000 kms interval for oil and oil filter change.

Also on the comments about difference between motorcycle oils and car oil; its less to do with what rev ceilings are and more to do with what role each oil performs in respective application.

First and major difference between car oil and bike oil is that in most cases car oil lubricates only the crank, con rods, cylinders, valves and valve trains (the transmission/ gearbox has a separate heavier oil) whereas bike oil has multiple applications to fulfil with lubricating the engine and the gearbox as well. Thus the load on bike oil is much more than car oil where 2 completely different grades of oil are doing the duties.

Second major difference is the quantity of oil sump. On an average a car has 3 to 4 times the oil sump that a bike will have, this is major factor which helps engineers decide what will the service interval for oil change. To give you a example; the Ninja 250 had a 1.6L oil sump and oil change interval of 7,500 kms whereas the Ninja 300 has a 2.2L oil sump and oil change interval of 10,000 kms.

The above factors are reasons why oil changes are more frequent in bike compared to cars. Interestingly, the Honda Goldwing GL 1800 (which is a compact car size engine with a comparable oil sump) has a 12,800 kms oil change interval which is more than my Ford Fiesta 1.6 has with 10,000 kms oil change.

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Kawasaki recommends oil change on z800 at 12000kms or 1 year. But service interval is 6000kms / 6 months.

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I'm not 100% sure on it. All Kawasaki bikes have x/2 oil change intervals in India, x being the international schedule.

Precisely what I wanted to say.

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12000kms for India !

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That means in a way the oil sump capacity of TNT 300 made the interval shorter. So in a year, you have to service the bike at least thrice, irrespective of the running. This could have been improved in a way !!

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The type of oil used also makes a difference in oil change intervals, isn' it ? I have seen that in cars, some oils can be changed once in 15K kms..


Booking my TNT 300 tomorrow. I loved the bike but was still skeptical. The comments and posts here helped in finalizing.