Thread: Penrite Sin Manual Trans 75/85 Vs Castrol Syntrans

That's a crazy price for Syntrans.

I'd use the Penrite, although I've never used it.

Syntrans is a good fluid, but it wouldn't be 2.5 times better than SIN MT.

BTW, $33/litre is Motul Gear 300 pricing

ARRRRRRGHH! Damn it! I bought 3 x 1 litre containers of Syntrans this morning for $88, after running VMX80 for the past 12 years.

Oh well; I know it will be worth it.....


James.

Originally Posted by rick130

That's a crazy price for Syntrans.

I'd use the Penrite, although I've never used it.

Syntrans is a good fluid, but it wouldn't be 2.5 times better than SIN MT.

BTW, $33/litre is Motul Gear 300 pricing

Thanks Rick,
even with my very limited knowledge of oils that was my reasoning as well.
Penrite state their product as a fully synthetic GL4 so I will chuck it in and see how we go.
The box has always baulked going from first to second when cold but only for a couple of minutes so time will tell.

Cheers,
Paul

Originally Posted by harro

so time will tell

Make sure you report back Paul!

Thanks,
James.

I recently changed all my oils to Penrite, including the R380 to Penrite Manual Gear 70. So far it's been great. No real difference to before - still smooth and no concerns.

I purchased online from Motofluid. Cheapest price I could find and delivery cost was reasonable.

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thats what i am using in he d2 manual, seems to be ok and no issues for the 60,000 odd km's i have used it. davies performance landys in sydney used it when they first did a service on my car 4 yrs ago so cannot be that bad.

^^ TBH, next time I'll be changing to Penrite Manual Gear 75. It's even cheaper again!

I have Penrite sin in my R380 at the moment, works well and i would not hesitate to use it again, it shifts beautifully. (by the way my box is 450k old and never been apart). I am going to try a synthetic Fuchs next though as it is one i have not tried before.