Just Bought a 2006 Accord EX V-6 6 SPD CPE

You can always tell someone with 'real world experience' ... you just can't
tell 'em much.

 

My dealer used to let me bring my own Mobil 1. Changed policy -- it's bulk
5-20 or nothing. So, I take my Prelude elsewhere for service.

 

The dealer I usedfor my Prelude routinely spilled oil everywhere so that I
would have get underneath the car and clean it off with degreaser. I now
take my car to a shop (not a quik change) that carries Mobil1 and allows me
to provide a Honda filter and crush washer. They do not spill oil
everywhere. So, I don't think the dealer is necessarily the answer.

 

I am looking into way to make it last as long as possible. I plan to use a
synthetic oil and do my own oil changes. I will buy several washers up
front.
What is the opinion of the OEM oil filters? If good does anyone one know a
good place one line to buy them from?

 

dude, synthetic oil isn't the magic bullet.

Do the math on synthetic oil with longer changes (say, 5K and 7.5K) vs.
regular oil with 3K changes.

I guarantee you, regular oil even at 5K intervals is more than enough
protection to make this thing last forever. Synthetic oil is throwing
your money down the drain.

 

Yup. I go 7k between changes using plain old dino oil (well, blend these
days I think is all the 5w-20 you'll find) and at 154,000 miles (on an '01
V6/AT Accord) engine still runs like when new.

 

here's a thought:
if synthetic gives slightly better gas mileage because of better
lubricity, and i've seen dyno reports to the effect that synthetics
/can/ sightly increase horsepower so there must be some reason to that
argument, then it may not be so simple.

example:
if a car on dino gives 30mpg and say 31.5mpg on synthetic, [5%
improvement], then over a 5,000 mile change interval, that's 250 miles
of savings, or 8.3 gallons. at $2.50, that's $20 worth of gas. that
covers ~4 quarts of m1, which is the capacity of my civic. now, if the
change interval can be extended...

see where i'm going? doesn't mean it's right, just a scenario to
consider...

 

Yup. I go 7k between changes using plain old dino oil (well, blend these
days I think is all the 5w-20 you'll find) and at 154,000 miles (on an '01
V6/AT Accord) engine still runs like when new.[/QUOTE]

Get an oil analysis from Blackstone Labs, and come back with the results.

I did so with my 92 Civic Si at around 112K miles; the report showed
that my 3K oil change intervals were *still* unneeded, and recommended
going to 5K based on the condition of the oil. Further, it appeared as
if the inside of the engine was in new condition.

Let's see...Mobil 1 is $6/qt, $30 for the oil. Dino is, what? Buck and
a half? $7.50 worth of oil for the whole shebang?

(to the original poster

All other things being equal--and they are--synthetic costs you $22.50
more per change. If you change at 5K intervals, you're paying another
half a penny per mile more just for the oil.

And it isn't doing you any better than dino.

Let's say you don't trust dino and wouldn't let it go any farther than
3K miles. Your total oil cost per mile is 0.25 cents. A quarter of a
penny. That's being INCREDIBLY generous. Any modern oil in a modern
engine can go 5K miles without trouble.

To get that low of a per-mile oil cost with synthetic means you'd have
to run it for 12K miles between changes. And you'd NEVER do that, no
matter what.

Even worse: with 5K intervals and dino, you're paying 0.15 cents/mile
for oil. To get that cost with synthetic, you're now up to a 20K mile
change interval. You'd NEVER do that, period.

Yet 5K intervals with dino on a new Honda V6 engine protect it just as
well as 7.5K or 10K intervals with synthetic--but at half the cost per
mile.

Fact: you pay a serious premium for synthetic, and putting it in a
Honda is wasting your money. People who would put synthetic in a Honda
are like the people who pay $1000/meter for stereo cables--easily
suckered by marketing hype, easily scared, and easily parted from their
money.

Let's face it: this is a Honda. It's not a 'Vette or an M5.

 

Get an oil analysis from Blackstone Labs, and come back with the results.[/QUOTE]

Nah, not gonna bother. I figure it being a V6/AT, at this rate the tranny
will give out way before the motor. Doubt the vehicle will be worth repair
when that happens.