any one need 0w-20 HONDA oil for their hybrid civic or insight????
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any one need 0w-20 HONDA oil for their hybrid civic or insight????
I work at a honda dealership and have accumulated many many quarts of this oil.
I know its not cheap at the dealer either
anyone wanna buy it?
doesnt do me any good!
I know its not cheap at the dealer either
anyone wanna buy it?
doesnt do me any good!
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Re: any one need 0w-20 HONDA oil for their hybrid civic or insight???? (nx2000racer)
go to http://www.bobistheoilguy.com and post this thread there. Most likely someone will buy it for the purposes of oil analysis. Or perhaps after you read some of the threads regarding this oil you may not want to get rid of it after all...
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Re: any one need 0w-20 HONDA oil for their hybrid civic or insight???? (HondaRD)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HondaRD »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">....Or perhaps after you read some of the threads regarding this oil you may not want to get rid of it after all...</TD></TR></TABLE>
why not?
why not?
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Re: any one need 0w-20 HONDA oil for their hybrid civic or insight???? (EGlovr)
The 0w-20 weight oils are more refined than other weight oils and have a very good additive package with a nice dose of moly, a very well known anti-wear agent. Not only is the additive package very robust for a non-synthetic oil, the TBN is pretty high to begin with. Hondas come prefilled with oil that has a very high moly content. This helps coat the cylinder walls and aids in break-in. This and the fact that Honda 0w-20 use group III base stocks, the oil can almost be considered a sythetic oil since most synthetic oils you buy today over the counter are group III oils anyway. Only Mobil 1, Amsoil, Redline, etc... are true synthetics since they use group IV/PAO base stocks. Castrol Syntec (except for their 0w-30 wt.), Valvoline Synpower, Havoline/Chevron Sythetic are all group III oils labeled as synthetic and thus charge the same price as group IV oils.
From used oil analysis results from various vehicles using this oil, they have proven the oil myth that thicker is better to be invalid. I have seen many oil analysis results for cars that specifiy a 20 wt. oil have less wear metals using this oil over other Xw-30 oils. For older cars, it is not usually a good idea to use this newer oil since their tolerances have changed, but for newer hondas with close tolerances, this would be the oil to stick with. I suggest you check out bobistheoilguy.com and check some of the results for yourself.
If you drive an older honda, then I can understand you wanting to get rid of your supply. If I were you I would probably keep it and mix it with another weight Honda oil when you change your oil. This would boost overall TBN of the oil you use and should yield satifactory results.
From used oil analysis results from various vehicles using this oil, they have proven the oil myth that thicker is better to be invalid. I have seen many oil analysis results for cars that specifiy a 20 wt. oil have less wear metals using this oil over other Xw-30 oils. For older cars, it is not usually a good idea to use this newer oil since their tolerances have changed, but for newer hondas with close tolerances, this would be the oil to stick with. I suggest you check out bobistheoilguy.com and check some of the results for yourself.
If you drive an older honda, then I can understand you wanting to get rid of your supply. If I were you I would probably keep it and mix it with another weight Honda oil when you change your oil. This would boost overall TBN of the oil you use and should yield satifactory results.
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