Stop & Go City Traffic Driving that our Canadian friends always do requires more frequent changes at closer intervals. The Canadian Honda S2000 manual calls for an oil change every 3500 miles. The stop and go traffic in smaller Canadian cities with very little highway tend to put a lot of wear and tear on the engine oil.

If you drive in frequent stop and go traffic then you will probably want to change your oil every 4000 miles or so. If you do mostly highway driving, you could easily get away with 7000 miles.

Some engine oil companies claim that their oils are good for up to 10,000 miles or one year. While the engine oil itself could handle this kind of mileage on a newer engine, moisture and gasoline contamination seen in older engines would significantly reduce the life of the engine oil.

There are MANY types of Honda oil filters on the market. Not all Honda or Acura dealers sell OEM Honda filters that are of high quality. Some Honda oil filters that fit the S2000 are made in Canada. They are not the same type of high quality filter as the one made in Japan.

 

Not sure about Socal. Are you just wanting to avoid postage? Blackstone will ship you the container at no charge, and it's a small enough package that the postage is nominal when you send it back.

 

What data are you basing this off?

If you'll look at this report where the oil went 10k miles, you'll see there was no contamination of the oil by either fuel or moisture. In fact, based on actual scientific testing of the oil, it could have easily gone to 11k. A VTEC motor btw...

http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2622374

We simply can't guesstimate accurately about motor oil life. Besides, there no need.

 

IMO i change the oil every 500 mi cause the dealership me to cause VTEC kicks in. So now i change it every 500 miles.

 

ive actually started topping mine off after everytime i drive it, then after ever 125 hours i take out the oil and recirculate it through the system. then i will run the car while i drain it and put it back through. really does the trick.

 

here is my opinion on oils and the OCI, which really shouldn't count for much since i'm not an engineer. Look, you can't go wrong with recommended fluid change intervals or the recommended fluid types. Really the way i see it, the only time you should deviate from the norm is if you are doing something specific with the car, such as tracking, drag racing or autocross, then you might want to try the special formulated oils for racing, that blue stuff for brakes, etc, etc, etc.

if you really want to get the most out of you OCIs look at the UOA for that oil you are using to get a good idea of what it should last, do a search on s2ki for the oil type with UOA report. I've seen a lot of these reports(there should be at least one for every type of oil folks have used) and all this valuable data is store somewhere here on S2kI's mainframe.

I use castrol GTX(dino) with about 3k -3.5k OCIs, the oil can probably go to 5K but heck what's $30(*4times yearly) for peace of mine.

 

Depends on who you ask. I use Amsoil's ATM 10W-30. There are plenty of good oils out there to choose from.

Yup -- very convenient. They'll even email you the UOA when it's done (as well as mail a hard copy).

 

lol wut

 

amsoil is very good. mobil 1 is usually thinner than what it says. when i used it on my 2000 si it burned off easy i have never used mobil 1 since on any car

 

okay sweet thanks for answers..

should i use synthetic oil? or regular?