FWIW, when I bought my Honda new, the dealer mentioned that there was special break-in oil in it and not to change it until it's first scheduled oil change. Then a few minutes later he stated that all Honda's used in Texas should follow the severe schedule for oil changes.
Severe schedule is 3750 miles and regular schedule is 7500 miles...so the question then became do I leave the break-in oil the full 7500 miles? Since I take anything a dealer recommends with a grain of salt, and I believe a few short OCIs are good when a engine is new to get any of the left over crap from manufacturing out, I changed it at 3K and went directly to Mobil 1 and changed it again at about 6K.
My reasoning was, anything the break-in oil was going to do, it would do it by 3K miles. UOA has shown that the break-in oil is most likely just the "new" 5w20 oil formulation with a heavy add pack of FM/AW components.
Further, I believe that most myths concerning using full syns for break in have been dispelled with current engine technology.
My 2 cents.
[ May 04, 2004, 12:33 PM: Message edited by: 427Z06 ]