2010 CRV under valve cover pics 450k mi

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Today I helped my friend out with the valve cover gasket on his 2010 crv. This car has 450,000 miles on it! Very clean inside sorry for the bad pics my hands were rather filthy.

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I suggested valve adjustment but his thinking is keep it till 500k so let her ride until then, plus I wasn’t planning on this job today and had to get back home for the holiday festivities with my kids. Mostly blends I’d assume and oil changes by the OLM which is like every 9-10k. He still puts 20-30k on it each year. I know what to do when my gasket leaks but I’m only at 204k
 
Love reading that and you know it burns up the pundits who insist they know better and insist 10k intervals are terrible for engines.
I feel like the k24 is gentle on oil as my oil looks like new (I know looks can be deceiving) after 5k. Also my buddy takes many long trips a month which in my opinion is better than a car of similar age with very low miles of very short trips.
 
Reasonable amount of varnish, particularly on the right side there, but pretty reasonable accumulation given the mileage. Does it use any oil between changes?
It’s starting to, nothing terrible but a few quarts over a 10k oci
 
Love reading that and you know it burns up the pundits who insist they know better and insist 10k intervals are terrible for engines.
When it's over 30k miles a year that's very much different than someone doing 10k a year and once a year oil change. So I don't think so. People claiming 10k is never okay is the same as people claiming 10k is always fine.
 
He bought the car brand new. I bought mine with 7 miles on it (204k now) with my first real paycheck when I started my career job.
I had to ask that first, because the real question I have is, has he had issues with the VTC actuator rattle and any timing chain stretch or tensioner failures in that mileage - or have you? Please reply to me in a PM, because I recognize that this is going off-topic.
 
It’s starting to, nothing terrible but a few quarts over a 10k oci
Might be a good idea to go to a heavier grade….0W/5W30 and see if the oil consumption decreases. None the less, hard to fault the oic interval with these high mileage numbers
 
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