2006 Honda Odyssey EX-L: 168,000 miles.
It has Navigation and DVD screens, 8 passenger leather seats (front seats are heated), cold AC, sunroof, etc.
It's rides like a brand new car.
No oil consumption at all. No oil leaks at all. Original engine and transmission.
I keep the VCM enabled for 24 to 27 MPG on the highway, which is great for an 8 passenger minivan.
Oil change interval = 4k with Pennzoil Platinum Full Synthetic High Mileage 5W-30 (HTHS = 3.2).
I only use 5W-30 after some conversations I had on BITOG with Trav (a respected mechanic on BITOG)
since he said these Honda 3.5 Liter J series VCM engines are very tough on the oil as the top of the front 3 cylinders
gets extremely hot due to VCM running only those 3 cylinders, and he had to rebuild several of them due to sludge for his customers.
He told me the same vehicle/engine is speced for 5W-30 and 5W-40 in Germany, and he recommended I go to a thick 30 grade.
I also googled HTHS wear graph, and found out you get much lower engine wear with a higher High Temperature High Shear (HTHS) rating.
I only use a thick 5W-30 anyway in all my vehicles with HTHS = 3.2 and with high levels of MOFT (Film thickness) for extra protection against engine wear. I don't have confidence in the "adequate" protection of 20 weight oils that only have a HTHS = 2.6.
Oil + Air filters: Fram Ultra Synthetic with 99%+ efficiency @ 20 microns.
Clean oil means less engine wear, as less particles get in between the hot high rpm parts that can cause wear.
I used to use Honda oil filters, but they only have 65% efficiency @ 20 microns, so I switched to Fram Ultra.
Automatic Transmission fluid drain/fills every 15,000 miles. This was recommended on the Honda Odyssey odyclub.com forum.
People who do this say they can go 300k miles on original transmission without any transmission issues at all.
I replace the PCV valve every 30k miles with genuine Honda PCV value to keep oil ventilation system clean and prevent high oil temperatures.
I only use genuine Honda parts, purchased from a brick and morter Honda Dealer online in another state that is trying to expand their
online internet sales and sell parts at close to wholesale prices. I then give them to my local mechanic to install.
My plan is to take this van to 300k miles. It still rides so smooth as silk and is so comfortable when my family goes on cross country vacations
every year. I really like the 2006 to 2007 Honda Odysseys. They are so cheap on the used car market, and I can avoid paying $50k+ for a new one. Would rather invest that money than lose it due to depreciation in a vehicle. It's also one of the safest vehicles on the road (it has very low # of deaths per million vehicle years) on the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety website at:
https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-model