Originally Posted By: LeakySeals
oiltard... I have never read a thread on here that would classify as oil paranoia until now. "Afraid"? of what???
The only thing I said I was "afraid" of was the use of non-Honda ATF in the transmission. That's a separate issue for a different thread. There's already several of them out there, mostly on Honda specific forums, and I've read most of them.
I'm certainly not afraid of running Honda's recommended and dealership-provided oil making the car explode. The point is this:
I was excited about getting the Toyota 0w20 in the car because I recently learned the car had been (not so recently) back-spec'ed, did a ton of research (largely thru BITOG), and decided that was the best oil for my application. As I said, I was itching to ditch the Royal Purple SM 5w20 that I had in there, despite amazing UOA's because I wanted to run a lighter oil, especially now that winter's here.
200 miles after I scratched the itch, dumped the RP with 6100 short miles on it, and filled up with the Toyota 0w20, it was mistakenly dumped by the dealership. I didn't get to run it or analyze my results. My current dilemma (I'm satisfied with the dealer's honesty, apology, and credit, although I could certainly be more of a pain about it) is whether to avoid the job of lying in the snow to change the filter or not worry about the small amount of bulk 5w20 messing with my future UOA results. I did have a thought early on of just somehow thinning this oil down with an additive in order to achieve something closer to what I think is the optimal weight for my particualr situation, but I'm pretty well over that and committed to running at least 90% Toyota 0w20. Maybe I'll skip the UOA this time around and get the next change's results analyzed in about a year.
oiltard... I have never read a thread on here that would classify as oil paranoia until now. "Afraid"? of what???
The only thing I said I was "afraid" of was the use of non-Honda ATF in the transmission. That's a separate issue for a different thread. There's already several of them out there, mostly on Honda specific forums, and I've read most of them.
I'm certainly not afraid of running Honda's recommended and dealership-provided oil making the car explode. The point is this:
I was excited about getting the Toyota 0w20 in the car because I recently learned the car had been (not so recently) back-spec'ed, did a ton of research (largely thru BITOG), and decided that was the best oil for my application. As I said, I was itching to ditch the Royal Purple SM 5w20 that I had in there, despite amazing UOA's because I wanted to run a lighter oil, especially now that winter's here.
200 miles after I scratched the itch, dumped the RP with 6100 short miles on it, and filled up with the Toyota 0w20, it was mistakenly dumped by the dealership. I didn't get to run it or analyze my results. My current dilemma (I'm satisfied with the dealer's honesty, apology, and credit, although I could certainly be more of a pain about it) is whether to avoid the job of lying in the snow to change the filter or not worry about the small amount of bulk 5w20 messing with my future UOA results. I did have a thought early on of just somehow thinning this oil down with an additive in order to achieve something closer to what I think is the optimal weight for my particualr situation, but I'm pretty well over that and committed to running at least 90% Toyota 0w20. Maybe I'll skip the UOA this time around and get the next change's results analyzed in about a year.
