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Originally Posted by Wrathchild
i was told should do oil changes when the oil meter is 5-15%
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I did that for the first oil change, I think it was around 5000 miles, never agian will I let the oil go that long. It was super black and smelled of sulfur (which is horrible for oil).
The special break in oil is not synbthetic, it just has a high moly count to help harden and smooth the metal. In fact in the manual it used to say (in my old '03 it did anyway) not to use synthetic oil until the third oil change. Here is an interesting tid bit, if you want to change that oil out early, use Valvoline Max Life as the replacement. It sounds wierd, but it has a 5 wt% moly content, is 22% synthetic and overall a very well made oil. Don't bother with other high milage oils, most are junk. I use this oil around 60,000 miles.
The oil meter is simply a mathatical formula that find the stress put on the oil and tells you how much life you have, it is in no way measuring the actual oil in your car. If your drive agresively, always shifting at higher RPMS, this will kill your oil faster, the meter takes this into account and tries to figure out when the oil is "dead." The problem is that this type of calculation is different for every oil, so if you are not using honda oil, this may not be true. Synthetic will probably last long than the indicator says, and cheaper Wal-mart oil will be long gone before the oil indicator says, so don't tak ethis thing as the tell all for oil, it si just a guide.