whats up im gonna be doin my first oil change on my ap1 since i bought it a couple weeks ago with my civic i always used honda oil will the same 10w30 honda genuine oil be good and is it synthetic..

 

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they are not syn, i believe they are just mobil clean 5000 dino oil rebadged

 

go to walmart. Synthetic oil is between $20 (for valvoline, castrol, etc.) and $22 (for mobil1). That's for 5 quarts. You can't beat that with a stick.

Buy the OEM filter. Honda does not make oil.

They outsource oil. Infact, they use valvoline in the overhead pumps here, IIRC. Maybe they sell oil packaged with the "Honda" name on it...but it's made by someone else.

The MTF, for example, is Idemitsu oil with certain types of additives at a certain viscosity. The MTF, however, is not the same as oil available elsewhere.

Their motor oil is probably not that complicated. It's probably bought from Mobil, Valvoline, Castrol, or someone else. They decide that it meets Honda specs...badge it as "Honda" oil and sell it for more $$. You can probably find the same damn thing elsewhere...except for it wont have "Honda" on the oil bottle.

 

$20 for gal of mobil 1 full syn at advance auto parts
oem filter 16 bucks from honda


Modified by egvtec at 8:58 AM 9/15/2008

 

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holy shat dude! that's an expensive oil filter.

I get the PCX filter for about $9.00

 

i use royal purple, but it isn't free lol. its about 50 bucks for 6qts. I would stick with the honda filter though, with that mator dont mess around. 16 bucks seems high, even for a honda dealer when hondas list islike 11 bucks.

 

I just picked a filter up from honda and it was 16 + tax. I would say you can get a better deal online ($8.13 from Majestic Honda) but shipping is another 15 bucks!

 

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what's your zip code? And why would you only buy one? If you change your own oil then buy the 6-pack


$45.14 + $9.34 (ground shipping) = $54.58

divided by 6 filters = $9.08 each.

Money well spent in my book and that's almost 1/2 of what you are paying for them.

 

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Royal purple is $7.30 at autozone around here. 5qts would be around $36. I guess since you need slightly over 5qts usually, it'd be around $43.

The honda dealer around here claimed that oil filter costs went up. It's now $15 including tax. They were nice enough to knock 10% off for me (for no reason?).

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oem filter 16 bucks from honda


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Too expensive. At walmart, like I said before, it's $22 for 5 quarts. That's a much better deal. The S2000 takes more than a gallon of oil anyway.

 

Yeah Honda quoted me 16 bucks, Im gonna change my oil and then next time order the 6 pack. (filters that is )

 

i paid 9 bucks for mine, but it helps to work at the dealer lol

if people were to buy them in mass quantities i bet i could git them to people for cheap, but we are talking about 30 at a time

 

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Royal purple is $7.30 at autozone around here. 5qts would be around $36. I guess since you need slightly over 5qts usually, it'd be around $43.

The honda dealer around here claimed that oil filter costs went up. It's now $15 including tax. They were nice enough to knock 10% off for me (for no reason?).

Too expensive. At walmart, like I said before, it's $22 for 5 quarts. That's a much better deal. The S2000 takes more than a gallon of oil anyway.

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yeah its about 8.50 a qt here at napa.

 

The Honda oil is not synth. You will need six Qts the car takes about 5.5

 

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yeah its about 8.50 a qt here at napa. </TD></TR></TABLE> HOLY ****! I pay 6.50!!!!

 

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