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You don't change the oil because it is "breaking down", you change the oil because you want to remove the contaminents that get into it. Oil can last a long time, 10-20K miles, but that's like saying you can go two weeks without food. yeah it will work, but is it healthy? Change your oil every 3,000 miles and you will be good, even every 5,000 is probably fine, but for the price of it, why not be better safe than sorry? Like someone said earlier, if it is all black and smells of chemicals and metal, it's good that you are changing it.
Synthetic. Why is everyone so hell bent on using it? What is it doing that is so great? If you change your oil every 3K miles anyways, you are wasting your money.
And to all the people out there that "trust" the engeneers for Honda, that's great, I just hope you don't have that same mindset for the Honda "techs" that you trust to change your oil. A lot of times they are just normal people that know how to turn a wrench, and that does not take a lot of skill. Trust me, they aren't ALL that great(and there are some real good ones). On my dad's Honda that he bought from a dealership, to fix a cross threaded oil plug that they screwed up, they just put some caulk or something like that in there so it wouldn't leak. How's that for brains?
Mike C
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