JASO MA and JASO MA2 what's the difference?

JASO MA and JASO MA2 what's the difference?

JASO MA blended with good amount of friction modifiers. But does not protect Catalytic Converters.

JASO MA2 blended with less friction modifiers and protects Motorcycles with Catalytic Converters.

If your motorcycle does not have a catalytic converter, why choose JASO MA2?

If your motorcycle had a Catalytic Converter which one do you protect first? The engine or the catalytic converter.

All Fully Synthetic blend motorcycle oils comes in JASO MA2.

Mineral oil had JASO MA.

The Engine should be the top priority.

I still use mineral oil on my small and standard motorcycles as the factory recommends JASO MA.

I think the Motorcycle Factory/Engineers knows best. So I just follow what the manual recommends.

But you can always break the rule. But in motorcycles you might also break something on it when you do.


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