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Show me a link for a hemi 100K powertrain warrantee, unless you are referring to a purchased warrantee.

Yea, I am guessing you have some error factor in your mileage calculation. Ethanol only has 68% of the energy content of equal amount of real gas. Advance the timing all you want. The math don't add up.

Sorry, I posted the solution, but it obviously never took.. Advance is where he got the battery. He went back and no one in teh store had a clue as to what he was talking about. Seems common these days. Very unusual to find anyone in a parts store that knows anything. I did tell him to get shims...

Oh, "are" they?

LOL, maybe there should be a section for the Doctors, and one for the patients. I fail to see how my statement was wrong from a "practical" standpoint. But hey, I have failed with Engineers before and I will fail again. Most of us are on the practical side.

Had a Fleet manager tell me once that he would never use an oil with a 30 point difference (specifically he hated 10W-40, which was very popular at the time). He stated in simple terms that the low number was generally the base oil, and they needed to add alot of Polymers to get it up to 40 hot...

Not really. The low number is generally the viscosity of the base stock. The high number is what the polymers will change the viscosity to when hot. So 5W will change to the same flow rate as 20w when hot. And... 0W is not really zero, it is somewhere less than 5.

Glass cleaner is a mixture of water and alchohol. If you get any streaks it is either from the dye in the cleaner or incomplete removal. The absolutely best way to clean Glass is with crumpled up newspaper AFTER you get all the grime off with a cleaner and a towel. Try it, you will never use...

Left box is Style or model number, right box is serial number

The brother-in-law put a new battery in. He noticed that the battery terminals would not tighten up correctly. Terminals are fine, not broken, distorted or dirty. He brought it to me. I did not see the old battery. But... It appears that the old battery and thus the terminals are a straight...

Originally Posted By: CATERHAM If this is just a cost thing I doubt you're saving much if anything choosing a dino 5W-20 over the most fuel efficient 0W-20s; namely the OEM Toyota and Mazda brands. You can get the Mobil made Toyota 0W-20 in bulk for about 20 bucks to fill a 5 quart jug. A dino...

Originally Posted By: HangFire A Winter rating of Zero is not a viscosity or oil weight of Zero. You are completely misunderstanding what the "0w" means- in cold weather startups, the thickened, heavy, slow-moving 0w-20 oil is marginally thinner (a good thing) than any 5w-XX like a 5w-20. At no...

Originally Posted By: chainblu Although I don't agree with the OP's reasoning for not using a 0w grade oil, he does have the right to be "cheap" (his words). I'm sure a brand name 5w20 dino oil will serve his Honda just fine. At least he's sticking with a '20' weight, however, in the original...

Originally Posted By: burgessdg Originally Posted By: Roob You'd most likely get an answer from Honda, or the dealership if you asked them. So why not go to them and tell them how you feel, tell them the oil weight you are using in the 2012 Honda speccing 0w20 and why? They might okay it, or...

Originally Posted By: JOD Originally Posted By: burgessdg Uhhh, CAFE was enacted in 1975. There is no doubt in my mind that the lighter oil scenario was implemented to meet CAFE. uhhh, 20W oils were in use long before 1975... No doubt, thinner oils have been increasingly spec'd for fuel...

Originally Posted By: HangFire Originally Posted By: burgessdg Oh, and the problem I have with 0W-20 is I'm cheap and see no benefit paying 3x the price for oil. Dan Dan, 3x? You're not in Canada, so please tell us where in IL you're getting 5w-20 for $7.65 for a 5 quart jug. In my area...

Originally Posted By: ChrisD46 What differences do you believe you would see in the structure of the oil when comparing a 0W20 vs. a 0W30 oil after 7,500 miles ? Would there be a concern for the 30W sheering down to a 20W or more prone to additive loss due to larger delta from 0W to 30 vs. the...

Originally Posted By: splinter Originally Posted By: burgessdg What's everyone think? Have the 47 replies offered thus far helped? @splinter: Yea, they helped. Well maybe not the ones that didn't read my whole original post... Dan

Originally Posted By: Roob You'd most likely get an answer from Honda, or the dealership if you asked them. So why not go to them and tell them how you feel, tell them the oil weight you are using in the 2012 Honda speccing 0w20 and why? They might okay it, or not. Either way it goes, at...