Background: I bought a 1 owner (senior citizen owned) 2013 Acura TL SH-AWD a few months ago. The car is mostly a cream puff as it was quite literally used to drive to church and the grocery store pretty much only; in 10 years it had 30,900 miles. I checked the Carfax service history and it does show 3 oil changes and tire rotations which were done at the approximate 10k mileage mark (probably per the Acura Maintenance Minder). As soon I bought the car I had a huge maintenance overhaul done - engine oil, oil seals, timing belt/tensioner, water pump & thermostat, alternator belt, all of the fluids including transmission (twice), transfer case, rear diff, brake, coolant. So the car is 100% caught up on any preventative maintenance that may have been missed due to time.
During that maintenance I ordered some HPL Engine Cleaner 30 and had the full quart added with the remaining amount being the M1 5w30 and an OEM Acura filter. That was a little over a month ago and about 800 miles so I went out to check the engine oil (the Acura J37 V6 does have a known issue of some of them consuming oil later in life if it's been neglected) and everything looked great and the oil, via the napkin wipe test, looks nice an golden. I really didn't expect otherwise but it's always nice to see. When I ordered all of the fluids for the car I accidentally ordered (2) qts of Engine Cleaner 30 and 5 quarts of their PPCO 5W30 to use after the Engine Cleaner/M1 combo. Since I have that extra bottle of EC would it be advisable to do a 2k mile OCI on the EC30 in there now and use the other bottle of EC30 with M1 for another 2-2.5k mile OCI and at that point switch to the full 5qts of HPC PPCO 5W30?
During that maintenance I ordered some HPL Engine Cleaner 30 and had the full quart added with the remaining amount being the M1 5w30 and an OEM Acura filter. That was a little over a month ago and about 800 miles so I went out to check the engine oil (the Acura J37 V6 does have a known issue of some of them consuming oil later in life if it's been neglected) and everything looked great and the oil, via the napkin wipe test, looks nice an golden. I really didn't expect otherwise but it's always nice to see. When I ordered all of the fluids for the car I accidentally ordered (2) qts of Engine Cleaner 30 and 5 quarts of their PPCO 5W30 to use after the Engine Cleaner/M1 combo. Since I have that extra bottle of EC would it be advisable to do a 2k mile OCI on the EC30 in there now and use the other bottle of EC30 with M1 for another 2-2.5k mile OCI and at that point switch to the full 5qts of HPC PPCO 5W30?
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