XPS oil for 912iS

I am concerned about the cost of XPS; 

When a company restricts the supply of a recommended product, to its own distributor network, this is usually accompanied by a very high price tag.

That Rotax is saying this and at the same time dropping its supply of AeroShell Sport Plus 4 - its long time recommended product, does not bode well.

Yep, I had exactly the same thought.  Let's hope Shell continues production and maintains its distribution network for Sport Plus 4 for many years.  It appears that Rotax XPS is currently selling for about $4.50/quart more than Sport Plus 4.  Also, XPS is apparently only sold by the quart.  None of the US distributors offer case pricing, unlike Sport Plus 4 which is commonly sold in cases at a discount, even by the Rotax distributors.

Hi All

The new XPS is blended in the USA.  it was formulated especially for the Rotax to solve oil temp issues with the new 916 engine and is currently the only one they want used in the 916.  The release for the other 9 series engines will be nice in that they have worked with the supplier for a long time for oils for the watercraft and snowmobile engines.  In the next few months you will see a big ramp up of promotion on the oil.

I cant speak to the price of the oil but the technical side looks very good.  It was a challenge to get an oil that would work with the 160 HP 916 and literally hundreds of hours and many engines on the dyno and flighjt testing were needed.  The Shell Oil will remain available as long as Shell has a volume is my guess.  

Cheers

R/W,

Do the properties of the new XPS oil actually work to keep the oil temperature lower, or is it just that this oil can hold up to higher temperatures?  

While trying to find some technical specs on XPS 5W-50 I bumped into the xpslubricants.com web page which says “(C) BRP Inc. all rights reserved”. Guess that includes pricing ;-)

Anyway, the key question was posed already (reduction of oil temp).

Does anyone know if the ability to reduce oil temp is directly related to “-50” rated oils in comparison to e.g. “-40” rated oil types, generally speaking?