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Re: CRV 5w30 VS Pilot 5W20 Help Please
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Re: CRV 5w30 VS Pilot 5W20 Help Please -
02-12-2007
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Hi All, I have a 1998 CRV that takes 5w30 engine oil and a 2004 Pilot that takes 5w20 engine oil, The CRV has high milage 160K kms. But runs great. I do my own oil changes now and have bulk oil filters, as both use the same filter. I would like to buy bulk oil and was wondering if there would be any adverse effects if I put 5w20 in the CRV. I dont want to change the grade for the Pilot. Thanks in advance. Hopeful.  |
are requesting 5w30 is that the engine may need it. You are not going to
hurt the pilot by putting 5w30 in it, so it seems more logical...
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Hi All, I have a 1998 CRV that takes 5w30 engine oil and a 2004 Pilot that takes 5w20 engine oil, The CRV has high milage 160K kms. But runs great. I do my own oil changes now and have bulk oil filters, as both use the same filter. I would like to buy bulk oil and was wondering if there would be any adverse effects if I put 5w20 in the CRV. I dont want to change the grade for the Pilot. Thanks in advance. Hopeful. ==================================== |
You left out the most important factor. If you're in Northwest
Territories or Tahiti?? (160,000 Km isn't 'high mileage'). 5w30 or even
10w 30 might be fine depending on location.
'Curly'
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Hi All, I have a 1998 CRV that takes 5w30 engine oil and a 2004 Pilot that takes 5w20 engine oil, The CRV has high milage 160K kms. But runs great. I do my own oil changes now and have bulk oil filters, as both use the same filter. I would like to buy bulk oil and was wondering if there would be any adverse effects if I put 5w20 in the CRV. I dont want to change the grade for the Pilot. Thanks in advance. Hopeful. |
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Hi All, I have a 1998 CRV that takes 5w30 engine oil and a 2004 Pilot that takes 5w20 engine oil, The CRV has high milage 160K kms. But runs great. I do my own oil changes now and have bulk oil filters, as both use the same filter. I would like to buy bulk oil and was wondering if there would be any adverse effects if I put 5w20 in the CRV. I dont want to change the grade for the Pilot. Thanks in advance. Hopeful. |
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On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:00:12 -0500, damn wrote: Hi All, I have a 1998 CRV that takes 5w30 engine oil and a 2004 Pilot that takes 5w20 engine oil, The CRV has high milage 160K kms. But runs great. I do my own oil changes now and have bulk oil filters, as both use the same filter. I would like to buy bulk oil and was wondering if there would be any adverse effects if I put 5w20 in the CRV. I dont want to change the grade for the Pilot. Thanks in advance. Hopeful. Personally, I would rather put the heavier oil in both. The reason they are requesting 5w30 is that the engine may need it. You are not going to hurt the pilot by putting 5w30 in it, so it seems more logical... |
Personally, I don't use those tea-cup sized Honda oil filters (whose
only design criteria is that they can be tightened/loosened by hand).
Purolator PurOne filters are larger and readily available on sale.
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damn wrote: Hi All, I have a 1998 CRV that takes 5w30 engine oil and a 2004 Pilot that takes 5w20 engine oil, The CRV has high milage 160K kms. But runs great. I do my own oil changes now and have bulk oil filters, as both use the same filter. I would like to buy bulk oil and was wondering if there would be any adverse effects if I put 5w20 in the CRV. I dont want to change the grade for the Pilot. Thanks in advance. Hopeful. If you want one size fits all, then put 5W-30 in both of them. |
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cannister size doesn't matter. |
it's internal filter medium area and
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quality that matters. there's a bunch of web sites dissecting filters to expose their guts and measure filter medium area, but i don't recall seeing any that test filter media. |
area and quality matter but only so much media can fit into a tea cup.
it's very important and a huge gap
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in the opinion forming process we so often see.- Hide quoted text - |
does Honda know something no one else knows or are they simply doing
something to make routine service easier (more profitable) for their
dealers?
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On Feb 19, 12:05 pm, jim beam <spamvor... (AT) bad (DOT) example.net> wrote: cannister size doesn't matter. size doesn't matter? where have we heard that before? it's internal filter medium area and quality that matters. there's a bunch of web sites dissecting filters to expose their guts and measure filter medium area, but i don't recall seeing any that test filter media. bobistheoilguy.com has some data. area and quality matter but only so much media can fit into a tea cup. it's very important and a huge gap in the opinion forming process we so often see.- Hide quoted text - please note how no other oil filters have shrunk recently; only Honda. does Honda know something no one else knows or are they simply doing something to make routine service easier (more profitable) for their dealers? |
Nissan (240sx) uses a can that the '63 Oldsmobile would have been happy
with. My '96 Nissan (i30) uses a filter the same size as the current Honda
filters. My '02 Nissan (Pathfinder) uses a filter that is actually smaller
than Honda's.
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