"jbourgeois" <jbourgeois@insightbb.com> wrote in message news:<fpr_c.103751$9d6.8035@attbi_s54>...
> My 1998 Honda Accord handbook specifies API-SJ oil only, but I recently had
> an oil change in which they put API-SL in it. Is this okay, or will it harm
> the car?

It's perfect. L is just the latest API standard. "J" was the
standard back in 1997. They're basically going through the alphabet.
My first car was an "F". That's been a couple of decades.

JM