A friend of mine has this Accord she bought used. The previous owners did not treat it very well, to say the least. They basically did not change the oil often enough, in my opinion.
I am noticing that there is varnish on the dipstick and it looks brown when looking into the engine from the filler cap area. So I changed her oil for her today with PYB 5W30 and a Honda filter. She has recently been using the Honda regular fill. I figured the PYB's detergents will clean it out a bit but it may be pretty advanced. There was brown crud under her fill cap.
Is there anything else I can do for her Accord. She does not make much money and I try to help her as much as I can but she lives 600 miles away, so I'd like to do something (if anything) while she is here in Denver. I can do a flush as refill with PBY or whatever if it will help, but don't want to do anything drastic without asking here on BITOG.
The car seems to run okay and it was overheating a bit in stop-and-go traffic but I discovered part of the radiator cap IN the radiator (up high where I could fish it out. I replaced the cap with a new Honda cap and it seems to be normal temp now.
I am noticing that there is varnish on the dipstick and it looks brown when looking into the engine from the filler cap area. So I changed her oil for her today with PYB 5W30 and a Honda filter. She has recently been using the Honda regular fill. I figured the PYB's detergents will clean it out a bit but it may be pretty advanced. There was brown crud under her fill cap.
Is there anything else I can do for her Accord. She does not make much money and I try to help her as much as I can but she lives 600 miles away, so I'd like to do something (if anything) while she is here in Denver. I can do a flush as refill with PBY or whatever if it will help, but don't want to do anything drastic without asking here on BITOG.
The car seems to run okay and it was overheating a bit in stop-and-go traffic but I discovered part of the radiator cap IN the radiator (up high where I could fish it out. I replaced the cap with a new Honda cap and it seems to be normal temp now.