shipo

That means you're throwing away perfectly good oil; waste of money.

10psiLsEf2

Ok Dr.Castrol


Ill throw away money long as its for my car that drives me 125 miles a day!

Knightrider03m

http://www.blackstone-labs.com/

Next oil change, send your oil to those guys. You are likely wasting your money.... and this is coming from someone that drives 145 miles per day.

furious94ls

This, choose a brand of oil and filter you like then send it in. Base your OCI after that. For me, my Civic has 192k and it was neglected by the previous owner on oil changes so I run Penzoil Platinum. I've been chaning it once it starts to get dirty usually 2500. Gonna do this until the engine is fully cleaned out then I'll send it in to get tested.

shipo

Yup, between my wife and I we were driving nearly 270 miles per day; with those kind of miles, short oil changes would have come around every few weeks. With a couple of UOAs from each vehicle and I was able to extend the oil changes to roughly 10,000 miles and then synch up the change timing for the two vehicles and I was able to do oil service on both every three months or so.

shipo

How do you know if the oil is dirty after only 2,500 miles? Odds on bet the oil is still good to go for thousands of miles.

10psiLsEf2

b16a2
ctr pistons
ctr cams
rc 310 injectors
toda cam gears
blow intake manifold
aem fuel rail

my car sees 9000 rpm DAILY! thats why i change her oil so often.

End of story you do your car the way you want ill do mine. TOODLES>

10psiLsEf2

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=lack+...:14,s:48,i:270


i bet your engine will if already doesnt look like this....


high rpms need healthy clean oil.

shipo

You'd lose that bet. Chasing down an elusive oil coolant leak I pulled the heads off at about 145,000 miles (the leak turned out to be a $0,10 "O" ring elsewhere in the engine); not only was the motor spotless inside, but the factory honing marks were still on the cylinder walls. So much for the worthless "Old Wive's Tale" that says to change your oil every 3,000 miles.

Knightrider03m

Put it to the test, send in your oil to the lab. Unless your engine is in poor health, they will tell you to run your oil longer.

furious94ls

It probably is, I go by looking at the color on the dipstick. As I stated before the car was neglected previously so I'm "flushing" out using high quality oil with short intervals. I don't mind spending $19 on oil.

10psiLsEf2

and you drive what kinda car again? what honda has "HEADS".

furious94ls

If you have pulled off more than one, the plural of head is heads. Also many Honda's have heads V6 buddy.

shipo

Seriously? Uhhh, how about my 2001 Accord V6 EX-L? Last time I checked, a V6 (regardless of make, VW's VR6 doesn't count) has 2 "HEADS", unlike my old BMWs which had I6 engines with 1 "HEAD".

10psiLsEf2

that goes to show that it doesnt see my rpm range guessing its also automatic.


i change my 1997 camry oil at 5000 cause it doesnt get abused

shipo

I guess you don't follow the old Detroit axiom "Make sure the brain is in gear before you engage the mouth" (or fingers in your case). If you'd taken the time to look at the bottom of my post you wouldn't have put your foot in it twice now.

1. Fact, by definition all V6 engines have two heads and as my signature clearly states I have a V6 Accord Sedan.
2. Fact, all V6 Accord Sedans of the 2001 vintage had automatic transmission; also clearly stated in my signnature. That said, it's the first automobile I've owned since my 1966 Plymouth Valiant 200 with the venerable Slant-6 (note: only 1 "HEAD") which has had an automatic transmission (this car is to be used as my daughter's first car; I'll teach her how to use a stick after she'd competent on the road in the Accord).

10psiLsEf2

am i supposed to read every signature? you arent talking to an idiot on this end bruh!
i know what engines have 2 heads,4 heads etc........ point being on my behalf is your car doesnt get revved like mine does. so i change MY oil so often because I rev my car past 8k everyday!!!! make sense? or should i draw a picture for ya?

vcbynature

i think a lot of you are forgetting something...just because companies say your oil will last 5,000, 7500, or 10,000 miles between oil changes doesn't mean your oil filter will. until they make an oil filter that will filter your oil beyond 3,000 miles ill stick with changing it every 3,000 miles.

just my 2 cents!!

Knightrider03m

IMO, if you go past your recommended oil change mileage, then you may want to upgrade to a mobile one type of filter. However, if you don't, then a normal filter should be fine. However, I use mobile one filters no matter what the case maybe.

BrotherAli

Last time I checked they do.....Also last time I checked most modern cars say to change the oil 5k+, didnt notice them saying to change the filter at 3k.

shipo

Are you serious? I don't think I've ever seen an oil filter that wasn't good for an easy 7,500 to 10,000 miles. In fact, many manufacturers, Honda included, recommend changing the oil filter every other oil change on some of their models. The fact is, from a filtering perspective, the newer the filter the less efficient it is at trapping dirt, errr, that is until the filter is no longer able to pass the minimum amount of oil as specified by the engine manufacturer (something that will happen well beyond 10,000 miles for most filters when mounted to a healthy engine).

6_Speed

I change the oil and filter on my 97 Accord every 5000 miles or so. It has nearly 155,000 miles on it. Still looks pretty clean under the valve covers ... just some varnish, but no carbon or sludge. Been using Castrol GTX 5W30 for most of its life but just recently changed over to Mobil Super High Mileage 5W30.

nus_dogg

^^ Damn, thats clean! I hate owners who neglects their maintenance needs then when it comes to the new owner, sh*ts already f*cked up and caked up with sludge and stuff.

I change mine every 2,500 miles.

shipo

Our old minivan rocker train at 150,000 miles with Mobil 1 oil changes every ten to twelve thousand miles.

6_Speed

Oil change intervals on my wife's 2004 Odyssey averages around 7000 miles; even went over 10,000 miles once. Been using Pennzoil Platinum 5W20 in it since new. It's got over 166,000 miles. I recently took a peak under the oil cap and from what I can see of the valve train, it looks pristine under there ... much cleaner than my Accord ... and no varnish at all.