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Does anyone wait until 10,000 miles to change their oil? I usually change at 5,000, but I have gone 7500 this time and wondering...I checked the oil , there is still plenty of oil in and it is very clean...wait till 10,000 like the manual says?
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Rep Power: 294 Uhmmm.... the manual say under ideal conditions the car can go 10K miles, normal or hard driving oil should be changed every 5K.
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Rep Power: 0 oil is always 'clean' it never gets 'dirty'......all that happens is that all the detergents and additives are depleted and yur left with the black, base, petroleum part. so the oil is actually always clean, just......gets used up. i usually change it every 3,000.
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Rep Power: 0 Your car is not an investment. It is a liability. It depreciates every second you own it and ever time you drive it. If you have paid the bank and have the title it becomes an depreciating asset. The only time your car is an investment is if you buy a luxury sports car and the car appreciates and allows you to buy something of more value than you bought the car for.
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screw that ....your car is an investment...and im sure you dont baby it.....its not going to be worth a blown motor down the road
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Originally Posted by mattnyc
Your car is not an investment. It is a liability. It depreciates every second you own it and ever time you drive it. If you have paid the bank and have the title it becomes an depreciating asset. The only time your car is an investment is if you buy a luxury sports car and the car appreciates and allows you to buy something of more value than you bought the car for.
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Originally Posted by hotrodcivic2004
oil is always 'clean' it never gets 'dirty'......all that happens is that all the detergents and additives are depleted and yur left with the black, base, petroleum part. so the oil is actually always clean, just......gets used up. i usually change it every 3,000.
Actually, this has been covoered many times... 90% of internal combution engines have this thing called blow by, where a little bit of the carbon from the fuel gets by the piston rings. INstead of depositing this blow by on things like your crank, and everything that your oil goes into. Oil turns black because the blow by get suspended in the oil, but the larger particles get filtered out by your filter. These small particles are what makes your oil turn black, it's small particles of carbon, the same stuff you see coming out of the stacks on a semitruck.
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Originally Posted by StealthCivic
thanks for the responses ABOUT OIL CHANGE MILES, keep in on the topic of when you change your oil not this other stuff, thanks.
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Originally Posted by mattnyc
Sadly, if you change your oil every 5k miles and perform the other recommended maintenance, your civic can last you 500,000 miles. meaning you wont need another car for a loooong time.
Just because a couple honda's have made it to the 500K mark, doesn't mean they all can. My dad had a '93 Accord DX, changed the oil every 3k and did all maintenance when recommended by Honda and spun the main baring at 223K. My point is that every engine is made a little different, after 200K+ those little differences become big differences and the engine fails. For instance, when the cylinder bore is made in the factory, the bit is changed dialy, perhaps your engine was the first engine that bit saw, that means your bores are near perfect, while the last engine of the day got a bit that's been used all day and the bores are not as striaght, but not bad. The last engine simply will not last as long as the first.
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Rep Power: 0 My bad, i may have exxagerated with 500k. but i have two 1980 civic sedans park near me at work and they run fine. Both are 350k+ miles. pretty impressive if you ask me. i think the way you drive is more important than the difference of oil changes btwn 3-5-10k miles.
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Just because a couple honda's have made it to the 500K mark, doesn't mean they all can. My dad had a '93 Accord DX, changed the oil every 3k and did all maintenance when recommended by Honda and spun the main baring at 223K. My point is that every engine is made a little different, after 200K+ those little differences become big differences and the engine fails. For instance, when the cylinder bore is made in the factory, the bit is changed dialy, perhaps your engine was the first engine that bit saw, that means your bores are near perfect, while the last engine of the day got a bit that's been used all day and the bores are not as striaght, but not bad. The last engine simply will not last as long as the first.
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Originally Posted by mattnyc
My bad, i may have exxagerated with 500k. but i have two 1980 civic sedans park near me at work and they run fine. Both are 350k+ miles. pretty impressive if you ask me. i think the way you drive is more important than the difference of oil changes btwn 3-5-10k miles.
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Originally Posted by StealthCivic
Does anyone wait until 10,000 miles to change their oil? I usually change at 5,000, but I have gone 7500 this time and wondering...I checked the oil , there is still plenty of oil in and it is very clean...wait till 10,000 like the manual says?
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Rep Power: 296 I agree that it would depend on how you drive. If you do mostly stop and go i would change the oil every 3k. If you do 80% or more highway, you can probably will till 5k or 7500 miles before it changes. I think 10k is a little too long, but then again BMW's have 10k oil changes and volves have 7500 mile oil changes. The reason being is that technology in engines have become a lot more efficient then those of the past, so you dont have to change the oil as often as the old ones.
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Originally Posted by TemjinX2
I agree that it would depend on how you drive. If you do mostly stop and go i would change the oil every 3k. If you do 80% or more highway, you can probably will till 5k or 7500 miles before it changes. I think 10k is a little too long, but then again BMW's have 10k oil changes and volves have 7500 mile oil changes. The reason being is that technology in engines have become a lot more efficient then those of the past, so you dont have to change the oil as often as the old ones.
And sorry I don't use any Honda fluids or filters.
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Rep Power: 306 I go about 5k-7.5k, and use full synthetic oil. I wouldn't go that far if I used regular oil. My dealer says 3750-5000 with regular crude based oil though.
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Originally Posted by pon55
Engine technology has changed,but oil has changed even more. Syntek oil and good filters will go 10K no problem,unless you live in the desert! You can change sooner if you want,but you woun't see any difference.
And sorry I don't use any Honda fluids or filters.
And sorry I don't use any Honda fluids or filters.
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Rep Power: 269 I go 3500 with it! Thats the least the most 4000 but i would never go 10000 with the same oil especially the way i drive but i guess it does all depend on how you drive your car.
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Originally Posted by flotsamm
3000 is too short and 5000 is too long for dino oil.. so I change mine every 4000 miles with genuine Honda 5w20 and Honda Filtech filter.
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Rep Power: 290 [QUOTE=Jrfish007]Honda use a synthetic blend oil for the 5w20 oil. They have to use a synthetic blend oil becasue of emmisions... not sure what on the emmision, but that's what they told me, and they wouldn't tell me more. I got that from American Honda too, not some guy in the dealership.[/QDaddy said you can bs your friends cause the belive you, strangers woun't! Blend? 1%= blend.
Sorry, just not like a mfg to give you anything good!
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So what about the car you are driving? Isn't that from the same manufacture?
Lets think about that for a second here... Honda is known for reilabilty, why would they want to comprise that with crapy oil? It would make more sense to me if they gave a better oil that would help there cars last longer, becasue that's what they are know for.
true, I don't know what they how much they blend. Perhaps they use organic oil with addatives, and that's their blend. But if they think I should use these addatives, then I will, becasue sure have a lot more at stake if something goes wrong with my car than any other oil company out there.
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Honda use a synthetic blend oil for the 5w20 oil. They have to use a synthetic blend oil becasue of emmisions... not sure what on the emmision, but that's what they told me, and they wouldn't tell me more. I got that from American Honda too, not some guy in the dealership.[/QDaddy said you can bs your friends cause the belive you, strangers woun't! Blend? 1%= blend.
Sorry, just not like a mfg to give you anything good!
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So what about the car you are driving? Isn't that from the same manufacture?
Lets think about that for a second here... Honda is known for reilabilty, why would they want to comprise that with crapy oil? It would make more sense to me if they gave a better oil that would help there cars last longer, becasue that's what they are know for.
true, I don't know what they how much they blend. Perhaps they use organic oil with addatives, and that's their blend. But if they think I should use these addatives, then I will, becasue sure have a lot more at stake if something goes wrong with my car than any other oil company out there.