nels4dr

ok i made the switch to synthetic oil. now my question is what would be the % of oil life would be good and safe for the car. i now that they recommend 15% for regular 5w30 oil.

ajpturbopittsburgh

What the hell are you talking about? I can't understand your typing?

teggsr925

im guessing you mean when to change it? just change every 3k.

RICO_

Come on man wake up. He's talking about the oil life indicator percentage on the dash.

OP.....stick with the oil life indicator. It calculates the oil life based on a number of different parameters from the car, revs, speed, acceleration, etc., but it can't tell the difference between regular or synthetic oil.

Change it at 15-20%.

TOO MUCH TORQUE

i do not trust the oil life indicator. for synthetic ill run it to 5-6k and conventional 3-4k.

RICO_

That's why I change it at 15-20%. It averages right at about 3500 miles for me. Right smack in the middle of your conventional oil interval.

ajpturbopittsburgh

What's not to trust....oh you are a conspiracy theorist....You think honda wants you to blow your motor so either they have to fix it for free or you pay to fix it.

I know what he meant rico but it was put poorly and it's annoying but I guess I shouldn't talk cause I'm annoying too.

But OP if you put synthetic in you are at least as good as conventional oil which is what the oil life indicator is based on. So you could probly run it way past 0% and into the negative which I wouldn't reccommend.

3000 is probly overkill since I've seen the oil life number typically allow 3000 to 8000 miles before it will go to 0%. But 3000 can't hurt.

There is an oil cooler underneath the oil filter which has 180 degree coolant going through it, that is probably why they increased the service interval for the engine oil. It's like a 300 dollar part. So if honda isn't worried about you putting 5000 miles on your oil you shouldn't be either.

ajpturbopittsburgh

congratulations! You've accomplished nothing. Were you expecting huge power gains or something? You make it sound like it was a hard to come to life changing decision.

Actually if you look in your manual it says synthetic is not required. And actually all it does it increase the operating cost of your civic by making oil changes more expensive which defeats the purpose of this economy car

TheMuffinMan

iTrader: (1)

Did your boyfriend just break up with you? You seem upset that you couldn't grasp what the OP was asking.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with his question that would warrant your responses.

Synthetic allows you to go longer between oil changes, which also offsets the minimal cost difference.

And as mentioned, either one will work - keeping track of your mileage or ~15% on the oil life meter.

ajpturbopittsburgh

[QUOTE=TheMuffinMan;38820231]Did your boyfriend just break up with you?

No he didn't. I'm just like this all the time. I can't help myself.

I'm surprised you guys didn't yell at me for reccommending how to install that turbo on that other thread were the dude wanted to buy that 130 dollar turbo. HAHA. He thought that was all he would need.

It would serve him right to go into a shop with that turbo in hand and say hey, could you guys put this turbo on? I would have laughed at him something terrible. It's people like him that give people who drive 4 bangers bad names.

tougetuned_ef

[QUOTE=ajpturbopittsburgh;38820336]what the heall are you talking about? you are such an idiot! your the a-hole who gives people with "4 bangers" a bad name. go smoke a fatty and calm down!

TOO MUCH TORQUE

these oil life indicators are not a good indication of the actual condition of the oil. ive seen people run thousands and thousands of miles and oil life is still at a high percentage, people will run it down to 15% when the oil is already broken down and ready to turn into sludge

ajpturbopittsburgh

[QUOTE=tougetuned_ef;38820513]Why am I an idiot? Except when I'm being overly sarcastic out of frustration from degenerate retards usually everything I say is pretty accurate. And the part that makes some of you laugh and some of you angry is that you know I'm right.

aahh...you poor retards....let my people go

TheMuffinMan

iTrader: (1)

This is true, the BEST course if you're truly concerned is after intervals of say 3000,5000, etc miles to send it to Blackstone and have it analyzed. But I doubt most users will want to do this.

ajpturbopittsburgh

Well I disagree. The system also counts engine revs. In addition to other things that I'm not sure of, load possibly too.

So when you are idleing or letting the car warm up in the winter time it is taking that in consideration. Which is something your simple mileage calculations don't account for.

I'm guessing you don't subtract your oil life for that do you? What if you idle alot?

I love the people that think they need to re-engineer what Honda came up with. Have you even read what the manual says?

TheMuffinMan

iTrader: (1)

Refer to my post.

The oil life indicator is a guesstimate of what the condition of the oil is, it is not an actual test of the oil. Using it as a GUIDE for when to change your oil is okay but no reason to rely solely on it.

Having your oil tested is the best method.

*edit* To add onto the "guesstimate" wording. It's a good calculation using variables like temperature and speed and all that but it's just a calculation. It's like having a predicted and experimental value in a laboratory experiment.

tougetuned_ef

ok well you may know a good amount about hondas but not everyone else does. it doesnt give you a reason to be an ***!

tougetuned_ef

and really you must be an idiot if you didnt understand what the op was trying to ask. i dont even own this model civic and i knew what he meant.

ajpturbopittsburgh

read the thread. I knew what he was trying to get at

tougetuned_ef

so you admitt there was no reason to be a d**k. just next time you think someone is answering a stupid question just hit back on your browser and ignore it. there is no reason to be rude to someone who doesnt know much. just remeber there was a time when you didnt know anything about these cars. you prolly asked a stupid question about hondas at least once in your life. sorry for all this i just cant stand rude ignorant people. thats why the people in the kills thread for the most part where all dicks. cause they reacted like that to a simple question or comment. IF YOU DONT HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY THEN SHUT THE F**K UP

wowpaw

^ vent much?

teggsr925

ajpturbopitt=bitch *** ***

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ajpturbopittsburgh

Good lord! haha. You know what, F you guys. I remember when I first asked about the AJP turbo and type x or someone said haha so you named yourself about a turbo that you have no idea about. I was like damn what an ***. I didn't see anyone come to my aid and get my back and call those guys diks. But you all want to jump my shyt when I tell it like it is!.

Most of you guys are dorks anyway. I just like messin with ya

Hey touge tuned, you need to eat one or two of those green pills! haha

Lighten up people.

ajpturbopittsburgh

ajpturbopitt=bitchass > teggsr925

what now!

clemsonhatch

more fail