8th Generation Honda Civic Forum - View Single Post - Maintenance minder and synthetic oil question...

warhead111 · 02-14-2007, 12:29 PM

I honestly feel IMO that the maintenance minder pretty much decreases at the same rate whether I use synthetic oil or not. It seems like it reaches approximately 15% whenever I accumulate 5,000 miles from when it was reset. So a concern for me is what if I reset the MM when I've already driven the car for 4,000 miles? In this case I'll need to change the oil when I drive an additional 1,000 miles, but will the MM go from 100% to 15% within 1,000 miles? I guess I'm not willing to test this out, but maybe someone can? =)

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warhead111 Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 99	I honestly feel IMO that the maintenance minder pretty much decreases at the same rate whether I use synthetic oil or not. It seems like it reaches approximately 15% whenever I accumulate 5,000 miles from when it was reset. So a concern for me is what if I reset the MM when I've already driven the car for 4,000 miles? In this case I'll need to change the oil when I drive an additional 1,000 miles, but will the MM go from 100% to 15% within 1,000 miles? I guess I'm not willing to test this out, but maybe someone can? =)