hello folks, i'm planning on changing the motor oil and oil filter on my 97 honda civic ex but i don't know what filter to use or what oil weight/type ?

any help is appreciated, thanks

 

5w30, you're going to get a wide spectrum of answers for brand of oil and filter. Get whats on sale. As long as you change the oil in proper mileage intervals you'll be OK. Purolator filter or Honda if you don't want to spend a lot of money.

 

I buy whatever dino oil is on sale. Lately I've been using NAPA 5w-30 which is about $3.50/qt and NAPA filters.

 

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GREDDY OIL and MUGEN FILTER

 

5w30 + OEM filter.

 

For the filter, I recommend the Purolator PureONE. It's like $6. Don't waste your money on the K&N or Mobil filters. The PureONE is the closest to factory filtering material (if not the same). If you Google around you'll see that some people have cut open dozens of oil filters and the PureONE are the best (after OEM).

Good luck with your oil change.

 

5w-30 + Fram.

 

5w30 mobil1 full synthetic + mobil1 extended performance oil filter

When I go to the track I use 0w30 mobil1 synthetic oil.

 

On my 97 it likes to drink mobil 1 but then I had a stripped out valve cover bolt and the oil pan gasket leaked some so I have an oil pan gasket, valve cover gasket set and new valve cover bolts on order, I just went through 1 1/2 qts in 2000 miles and that was running their 10w30 high mileage oil. and that is even better than when I ran their regular 5w30 synthetic.

I have just installed heli-coils in all 5 of the valve cover bolt holes so just waiting on the rest of the new parts to arrive to put everything back together again.

The 99 that I have is running 5w30 castrol syntec full synthetic and a pure one filter and I've gone 2000 miles and hasn't used a drop of oil but then it has all new seals and gaskets with the exception of the rear main which will get done when I replace the clutch.

both are y5's, the 97 has 190k and the 99 has 211k miles.

 

thanks everyone for the help.
i will go with the 5w30. synthetic right?
filter i will see what auto parts around me have.

 

i use the same

 

Don't be a dick -__-

 

in my 2000 I run Mobil 1 10w30 synthetic.. just a preferance but its always done good for me.. besides an OEM honda filter i've only run FRAM tough gaurd cause walmart sells it relatively cheap.. but OEM is King

 

mobil 5w/10w 30 depending on season. wix filter.