Hi all, I have been off these forums for awhile now but am back as I need your suggestions & recommendations.
I have recently purchased this RDX with a 2.3L 4 Cyl Turbo with 55k KM, all previous oil changes done at the dealer with Mobil 1 & OEM filter. The manual recommends a HTO-06 Synthetic Oil in 5W30 year round. Right now my choices here are Mobil 1, Pennzoil Platinum & Petro Canada which are easily available. My dilemma is that I have a huge stash of "Made in Germany" GC 0W30 Green & yellow with me & would like to use up that before I start buying new oil, so will you recommend using up GC 0W30 over the recommended oil? I am not too much worried about any warranty issues using the GC as I am confident the oil is one of the best available out there.
I will be changing the oil strictly as per the OLM which is very conservative in RDX as my last 2 oil changes with recommended HTO-06 oil i only got 6000-8000 KM between oil changes, which is what most other RDX owners are getting. 1st one was done by the dealer before delivery with Mobil 1 5W30 & OEM Honda A02 filter & the 2nd was done by myself using Pennzoil Platinum 5W30 using K&N oil filter. I will be using Mobil 1 or Wix or K&N oil filter at every oil change.
On other RDX forums any oil that is not HTO-06 certified is a big No-No but from what I remember about the GC 0W30 from BITOG a few years ago when this oil was making waves in our community here is that it is a very sturdy oil & should be able to handle this application easily. What do you guys suggest? I tried searching for any UOA for RDX but could not find anything so your opinions will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
I have recently purchased this RDX with a 2.3L 4 Cyl Turbo with 55k KM, all previous oil changes done at the dealer with Mobil 1 & OEM filter. The manual recommends a HTO-06 Synthetic Oil in 5W30 year round. Right now my choices here are Mobil 1, Pennzoil Platinum & Petro Canada which are easily available. My dilemma is that I have a huge stash of "Made in Germany" GC 0W30 Green & yellow with me & would like to use up that before I start buying new oil, so will you recommend using up GC 0W30 over the recommended oil? I am not too much worried about any warranty issues using the GC as I am confident the oil is one of the best available out there.
I will be changing the oil strictly as per the OLM which is very conservative in RDX as my last 2 oil changes with recommended HTO-06 oil i only got 6000-8000 KM between oil changes, which is what most other RDX owners are getting. 1st one was done by the dealer before delivery with Mobil 1 5W30 & OEM Honda A02 filter & the 2nd was done by myself using Pennzoil Platinum 5W30 using K&N oil filter. I will be using Mobil 1 or Wix or K&N oil filter at every oil change.
On other RDX forums any oil that is not HTO-06 certified is a big No-No but from what I remember about the GC 0W30 from BITOG a few years ago when this oil was making waves in our community here is that it is a very sturdy oil & should be able to handle this application easily. What do you guys suggest? I tried searching for any UOA for RDX but could not find anything so your opinions will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance