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jayjr98 · 04-21-2006, 04:01 PM

Guys,

I just bought a new Civic EX Sedan AT. I wouldn't trust this maintenance minder system at all b/c it will seriously extend your oil changes.

So everybody is bickering about what the proper interval is... here is my solution... use the maintenance schedule for the older, 7th gen civics.. I owned an '03 and it said in the owners manual to change oil every 10k for "normal" use and every 5k for "severe" use.

So since I live in the city, I changed my oil religiously with Honda 5w20 every 5k.

So what I will probably do is ignore the stupid maintenace minder system which only takes into account engine RPM and temp and maybe some other almost irrelevent factors and just stick to the 7th gen "severe" maintenace schedule for my oil changes, tranny flushes, etc.

I'm not telling anybody else to do this, just wanted to post my thoughts..

04-21-2006, 04:01 PM	#41 (permalink)
jayjr98 Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 78	Guys, I just bought a new Civic EX Sedan AT. I wouldn't trust this maintenance minder system at all b/c it will seriously extend your oil changes. So everybody is bickering about what the proper interval is... here is my solution... use the maintenance schedule for the older, 7th gen civics.. I owned an '03 and it said in the owners manual to change oil every 10k for "normal" use and every 5k for "severe" use. So since I live in the city, I changed my oil religiously with Honda 5w20 every 5k. So what I will probably do is ignore the stupid maintenace minder system which only takes into account engine RPM and temp and maybe some other almost irrelevent factors and just stick to the 7th gen "severe" maintenace schedule for my oil changes, tranny flushes, etc. I'm not telling anybody else to do this, just wanted to post my thoughts..