05 Honda Civic DX, 4 speed automatic with 1.7L 4 cylinder SOHC engine
Vehicle Build Date: Jun 2005
Vehicle Purchase/In-service Date: 01 Aug 2005
Date of first oil change: 07 Feb 2006
Honda Factory Fill 5w-20
Blackstone Labs
Oil: 10,000 miles
Makeup oil: 0
Car: 10,000 miles, 28 weeks*, 357 miles/week
*Calculated from purchase/in-service date
Oil Filter: Honda/Filtech OEM 15400-PLM-A01 cut open oil filter pics
Air Filter: Honda/Filtech OEM air filter pics
Additives: FP60 – 2oz per tank added at each fillup
Vehicle mods: tire pressure set to 43psi cold (tire rated for max 51psi cold); factory intake resonator removed, cold air hose routed from fog light to factory air filter box cold air hose
Honda recommends 5w-20 oil at 10k miles or 1 year for normal driving, and 5k miles or 6 months for severe driving for my 4 cylinder engine.
UOAs
05 Honda Civic Si - Factory fill 5w20 - 5040 miles, dated Sep 2005 (not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison with the Si 2.0L, but it was the only Honda 4cyl factory fill UOA I could find)
UOA
Blackstone Comments: This was a long way to push the factory oil and you can see the result in the wear metals, with lower end wear reading high. Lead, copper and tin are from bearings and these metals typically do not read high during wear-in, unless the oil has become too abrasive. Some of that silicon (factory leftover) may be abrasive. You can expect everything to improve in the next sample if you keep your oil use miles down around 5400, which is average for the 1.7L. Engine gets you 41.4 mpg you would hate to wear it out too soon. The TBN was 1.7, about exhausted.
[ February 15, 2006, 11:29 AM: Message edited by: lindermant ]
Vehicle Build Date: Jun 2005
Vehicle Purchase/In-service Date: 01 Aug 2005
Date of first oil change: 07 Feb 2006
Honda Factory Fill 5w-20
Blackstone Labs
Oil: 10,000 miles
Makeup oil: 0
Car: 10,000 miles, 28 weeks*, 357 miles/week
*Calculated from purchase/in-service date
Oil Filter: Honda/Filtech OEM 15400-PLM-A01 cut open oil filter pics
Air Filter: Honda/Filtech OEM air filter pics
Additives: FP60 – 2oz per tank added at each fillup
Vehicle mods: tire pressure set to 43psi cold (tire rated for max 51psi cold); factory intake resonator removed, cold air hose routed from fog light to factory air filter box cold air hose
Honda recommends 5w-20 oil at 10k miles or 1 year for normal driving, and 5k miles or 6 months for severe driving for my 4 cylinder engine.
UOAs
05 Honda Civic Si - Factory fill 5w20 - 5040 miles, dated Sep 2005 (not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison with the Si 2.0L, but it was the only Honda 4cyl factory fill UOA I could find)
UOA
UOA Report piccode:
Fact Univ
Brand: Fill Avg
Weight: 5W20
Unit Miles: 10k
Oil Miles: 10k
Oil Weeks: 28
Miles/week: 357.2
Day: Feb 7
Year: 2006
Oil Filter: Honda
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Aluminum 7 3
Chromium 2 1
Iron 22 8
Copper 12 4
Lead 13 7
Tin 5 1
Molybdenum 347 116
Nickel 1 0
Manganese 2 1
Silver 0 0
Titanium 0 0
Potassium 0 0
Boron 124 51
Silicon 51 11
Sodium 9 11
Calcium 1750 2320
Magnesium 11 128
Phosphorus 641 792
Zinc 759 972
Barium 7 0
vis sus@210 52.2 52-61
Flash point 365 >355
TBN 1.7
Fuel
Antifreeze 0.0 0.0
Water 0.0
Insolubles 0.4
Blackstone Comments: This was a long way to push the factory oil and you can see the result in the wear metals, with lower end wear reading high. Lead, copper and tin are from bearings and these metals typically do not read high during wear-in, unless the oil has become too abrasive. Some of that silicon (factory leftover) may be abrasive. You can expect everything to improve in the next sample if you keep your oil use miles down around 5400, which is average for the 1.7L. Engine gets you 41.4 mpg you would hate to wear it out too soon. The TBN was 1.7, about exhausted.
[ February 15, 2006, 11:29 AM: Message edited by: lindermant ]