Honda Car Forum

Your oil may actually be good up to 12,000 miles. No kidding.

Honda and GM brought an excellent technology to measure oil life in
cars for the masses. Instead of dumb simple counters, they rely "on
sensors that measure oil temperature extremes and engine revolutions
over time to calculate oil life and tell drivers when to get the
lubricant changed. Oil can lose its lubricating properties if it runs
at too low or too high of a temperature."

http://www.autonews24h.com/Driving/1660.html

But looks like the system could have told you the time interval as
well (VWs do) so you can show that to the ignorant service writer.



On Apr 15, 4:38 pm, "Butch Haynes" <butch@huntsville> wrote:
> Took my '07 Accord V6 back to the selling dealer for its first oil change. I
> bought the car just over 11 months ago, the maintenance minder showed 5% oil
> life left with 6570 miles on the odometer-- I don't drive much...
>
> The service writer starting chewing my ass for going beyond 6 months for the
> oil change. I showed him the Owner's Manual where it says to change the oil
> the first time at one year if the oil life minder didn't call for a change
> yet. I also mentioned that I had been concerned about going so long on the
> oil and had called American Honda around 6 months ago and they said to leave
> that first oil in there until the minder said to change it or a year was up.
>
> So what's what?

OK I admit the quality of oil is better than it was decades ago but surely
the issue is (at least in the UK- cost per mile over 3 years / 60k miles
for a typical "company car" versurs the private owner who probably If they
want a car lasting 250k miles change the oil quite often?) without clouds of
blie smoke/ want an engine that does NOT drink OIL