Whatislove

For those who use synthetic, how often do you change your oil?

red__sun

I do mine about once a semester which works out to be about 6-7000 miles.

Whatislove

Reason I ask is I have always been doing it every 5k miles. Using Royal Purple.

Now, I got an 01 and my dad has an 03. and he tells me he has been doing it every 10k miles cause that's what's in the manual.

This right?

It Wasn't Me

I change mine every 3,000 miles. (or close to it)

honda.lioness

I too noticed my 2003 Civic's manual says every 10k miles or one year, using non-synthetic 5W-20 oil. (For severe driving conditions, there is a different change interval.) I think the longer change interval is due to oil standards changing. See the wikipedia entry for "motor oil." I am going to keep reading on the subject before I do my first oil change on my new used 2003 Civic.

red__sun

For severe driving conditions its 5000 miles. But something to consider is honda's conditions for severe driving conditions is frequent stop and go traffic, driving weather over 90deg or making frequent trips less than 5miles.

Pothole987

wierd... but when i bought my 05 i asked the dealer what oil it uses and he said to use 5w20 i also asked synthetic and they say they do not recomend... wierd?

katzenjammer84

Every 3 months or 3000 miles, whatever comes first.

(I use Castrol Syntec 5W-20)

Whatislove

yeah okay, I think I fall into the severe conditions area


what is an air condition filter? that a cabin filter?