Honda Car Forum

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.autos.honda.]
On 2008-07-19, Elle <honda.lioness@spamnocox.net> wrote:
> "jim beam" <spamvortex@bad.example.net> wrote
>> jim beam wrote:
>>> here's my last oil analysis:
>>>
>>> aluminum 3
>>> chromium 1
>>> iron 23
>>> copper 6
>>> lead 2
>>> tin 0
>>>
>>> cSt viscosity at 100C 10.18
>>> insolubles 0.3%
>>>
>>> what was my change interval? bonus points for the brand
>>> of oil.
>>
>> well, as the keen students of google were quickly able to
>> ascertain, it was indeed 12k miles.
>
> What is it you claim tells a person that the interval was
> 12k miles?

Because he has stated numerous times that he changes oil at 12K, with
Mobil1 Full Synth. This I can remember, but don't ask me my wife's
birthday... ;-)

>
> I looked at some of the Blackstone Lab reports for Hondas.
> What seems most telling about how the engine is doing are
> (1) how the analysis changes from one oil change to the next
> (for the given mileage interval) and (2) how the analysis
> compares to the universal averages for a set interval.
>
>


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Joe wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.autos.honda.]
> On 2008-07-19, Elle <honda.lioness@spamnocox.net> wrote:
>> "jim beam" <spamvortex@bad.example.net> wrote
>>> jim beam wrote:
>>>> here's my last oil analysis:
>>>>
>>>> aluminum 3
>>>> chromium 1
>>>> iron 23
>>>> copper 6
>>>> lead 2
>>>> tin 0
>>>>
>>>> cSt viscosity at 100C 10.18
>>>> insolubles 0.3%
>>>>
>>>> what was my change interval? bonus points for the brand
>>>> of oil.
>>> well, as the keen students of google were quickly able to
>>> ascertain, it was indeed 12k miles.
>> What is it you claim tells a person that the interval was
>> 12k miles?
>
> Because he has stated numerous times that he changes oil at 12K, with
> Mobil1 Full Synth.

indeed.


> This I can remember, but don't ask me my wife's
> birthday... ;-)
>
>> I looked at some of the Blackstone Lab reports for Hondas.
>> What seems most telling about how the engine is doing are
>> (1) how the analysis changes from one oil change to the next
>> (for the given mileage interval) and (2) how the analysis
>> compares to the universal averages for a set interval.
>>

elle, 1. learn to filter out the sell - it's not necessary to analyze
every time [unless perhaps you're on the extreme end of a longevity
experiment]. 2. just accept that absolute values are highly important.
thanks.

"Joe" <joe@nospam.hits-buffalo.com> wrote:

> On 2008-07-18, jim beam <spamvortex@bad.example.net> wrote:
>> here's my last oil analysis:
>>
>> aluminum 3
>> chromium 1
>> iron 23
>> copper 6
>> lead 2
>> tin 0
>>
>> cSt viscosity at 100C 10.18
>> insolubles 0.3%

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