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Long time lurker, first time poster. Hello!
So I'm coming up on another 7500 kms on my 90 Accord EXR (f22a 5 speed). I've been running Pennzoil Yellow bottle, but it seems to thin out (shear) after awhile. No major issues with consumption, I typically use a litre in between changes - this includes highway runs in the mountains where the car sees high revs. Most of the time the car is a commuter doing mostly freeway 30 kms roundtrip. It does see cold weather in winter (Canada) and is plugged in left outdoors.
I chose Valvoline Maxlife 5w30 as it was cheap at Wall-Mart (22 bucks a jug - Canadian dollars). I could've bought GTX HM for a few dollars more, but I read on this site that GTX HM is thicker, and I use Maxlife in my chevy 2500 (4.8L V8 with 205K kms) van and it seems to be running smooth. The wife's car (04 Camry) is running the last of my Pennzoil Yellow Bottle Stash, then I have a spare jug of plain GTX, then hopefully I'll put her car on MaxLife and have all vehicles running on the same thing.
The Accord and Camry run 7500 km/6 month intervals (wix filters), the van runs 10,000km intervals as per Oil Life Monitor.
Is my reasoning on MaxLife sound? Save a few bucks off GTX HM (which I've used before). And have a slightly thinner 5w30, for those cold Canadian mornings (-30 Celsius isn't unheard of, and -15 in the winter months is par for the course).
So I'm coming up on another 7500 kms on my 90 Accord EXR (f22a 5 speed). I've been running Pennzoil Yellow bottle, but it seems to thin out (shear) after awhile. No major issues with consumption, I typically use a litre in between changes - this includes highway runs in the mountains where the car sees high revs. Most of the time the car is a commuter doing mostly freeway 30 kms roundtrip. It does see cold weather in winter (Canada) and is plugged in left outdoors.
I chose Valvoline Maxlife 5w30 as it was cheap at Wall-Mart (22 bucks a jug - Canadian dollars). I could've bought GTX HM for a few dollars more, but I read on this site that GTX HM is thicker, and I use Maxlife in my chevy 2500 (4.8L V8 with 205K kms) van and it seems to be running smooth. The wife's car (04 Camry) is running the last of my Pennzoil Yellow Bottle Stash, then I have a spare jug of plain GTX, then hopefully I'll put her car on MaxLife and have all vehicles running on the same thing.
The Accord and Camry run 7500 km/6 month intervals (wix filters), the van runs 10,000km intervals as per Oil Life Monitor.
Is my reasoning on MaxLife sound? Save a few bucks off GTX HM (which I've used before). And have a slightly thinner 5w30, for those cold Canadian mornings (-30 Celsius isn't unheard of, and -15 in the winter months is par for the course).