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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?

http://www.valvoline.com/carcare/art...=ccr20030901og


"jbourgeois" <jbourgeois@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
>

Thanks, I guess this article means that it is okay.


"BBTACO" <BBTACO@SPAMNOT.COM> wrote in message
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> http://www.valvoline.com/carcare/art...=ccr20030901og
>
>
> "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?
> >
> >
>
>

"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

jbourgeois wrote:

> 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?
>

sj was superceded by sk, etc... basically, s(letter same or higher than
j) is ok

so unless you buy old cans of oil at garage sales, youll be ok.