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Late to this thread but my experience is time is the enemy, not necessarily mileage. All the rubber seals, o-rings, gaskets, etc. will fail and leak eventually. At some point keeping a car on the road becomes a rolling restoration project or a labor of love. Now, the guy who got 1MM miles on...

VCM is the same problem source as it has been since the beginning. Even though it has been "3 iterations" the root cause of long term failures has never been found. Whether it is the low tension rings passing oil, the rings walking in the cylinder bore under no compression, or just assembly...

Based on my 2008 you are wise to disable the VCM it will cause nothing but problems. Also as others have stated a tranny spill and fill should be done every 30k or so. Compared to my wife's current 2016 Sienna I wouldn't call the Odyssey "reliable" but it is a serviceable vehicle. We have had...

Originally Posted By: Donald For Fe you should expect xx PPM per 1k miles whether you do 3k OCI or 10k. If you did not change the oil for a really long time and the contaminants got out of sight then they would cause wear themselves. But should not be a problem with a sensible OCI. OK, let's...

New to the forum. I have read some comments on some of Blackstones reports and I have a question. In some reports they state that iron tends to increase with mileage on the oil but other wear metals should follow universal averages even with extended intervals (apparently regardless of...

Originally Posted By: Mud Interesting discussion on this. I can offer only a lone perspective within the internet wilderness - I had paused to make some subjective observations on our 2008 V6 Accord: http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/3313612/1 Within that post: "Related...