OK to use 0W40 to replace 5W20?
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Originally Posted By: buster
Yes, but why?
ditto
Yes, but why?
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I'd say you could go to a 5W-30 or 10W-30 but I wouldn't go all the way to a 0W-40.
Originally Posted By: buster
Yes, but why?
My friend thought he found a really good "back alley" deal on the stuff, but it turned out to be 15W40 Esso XD3. Arrghh, nevermind. I guess you can't trust anybody in a back alley.
Doh!
Thanks for all advice any ways.
Yes, but why?
My friend thought he found a really good "back alley" deal on the stuff, but it turned out to be 15W40 Esso XD3. Arrghh, nevermind. I guess you can't trust anybody in a back alley.
Thanks for all advice any ways.
Mix the 15w40 about 50/50 with some 5w20 and you will get, for all practical purposes, a 10w30.
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Bait and switch back alley sale. How rude.
Originally Posted By: BuickGN
For what it's worth, I'm running straight Amsoil 30wt in the TL and have seen nothing but positive results.
What good can possibly come from starting up with 500 cSt. oil vs. 150 cSt. oil?
For what it's worth, I'm running straight Amsoil 30wt in the TL and have seen nothing but positive results.
What good can possibly come from starting up with 500 cSt. oil vs. 150 cSt. oil?
Why...use a 0W20 and be happy.
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Originally Posted By: buster
Yes, but why?
My friend thought he found a really good "back alley" deal on the stuff, but it turned out to be 15W40 Esso XD3. Arrghh, nevermind. I guess you can't trust anybody in a back alley.
Doh!
Thanks for all advice any ways.
At least nobody got tasered.
Originally Posted By: buster
Yes, but why?
My friend thought he found a really good "back alley" deal on the stuff, but it turned out to be 15W40 Esso XD3. Arrghh, nevermind. I guess you can't trust anybody in a back alley.
Thanks for all advice any ways.
At least nobody got tasered.
Originally Posted By: qfg
OK, to make a long story short. Is it OK to use 0W40 on a Civic that the manual say uses 5W20?
If it is a newer Civic with VTEC or iVTEC anything over SAE 30 seems to shorten the life of VTEC solenoid. If someone says that it is OK to use SAE40 oil on a VTEC powered engine, they probably don't know that VTEC is powered by the oil pressure and how it operates.
If your Civic was designed to run on 5W-20 then 5W-30 is probably the highest your could safely go. The tolernaces on the Honda engines will probably not allow SAE40 to get into all the journals and passages.
Just my $0.02. It is your car after all.
OK, to make a long story short. Is it OK to use 0W40 on a Civic that the manual say uses 5W20?
If it is a newer Civic with VTEC or iVTEC anything over SAE 30 seems to shorten the life of VTEC solenoid. If someone says that it is OK to use SAE40 oil on a VTEC powered engine, they probably don't know that VTEC is powered by the oil pressure and how it operates.
If your Civic was designed to run on 5W-20 then 5W-30 is probably the highest your could safely go. The tolernaces on the Honda engines will probably not allow SAE40 to get into all the journals and passages.
Just my $0.02. It is your car after all.
Originally Posted By: BuickGN
For what it's worth, I'm running straight Amsoil 30wt in the TL and have seen nothing but positive results.
That's really a 10W30.
For what it's worth, I'm running straight Amsoil 30wt in the TL and have seen nothing but positive results.
That's really a 10W30.
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Originally Posted By: BuickGN
For what it's worth, I'm running straight Amsoil 30wt in the TL and have seen nothing but positive results.
What good can possibly come from starting up with 500 cSt. oil vs. 150 cSt. oil?
The car is basically started a couple times a week and goes 290 miles without stopping every time it's started, with the rare exception of a grocery run. It only gets down to the 30s here in the winter. I have noticed better power and vtec seems more noticable. Pretty much the opposite of what I was expecting. It's a "light" 30wt and besides, no VIIs is always a good thing.
Originally Posted By: BuickGN
For what it's worth, I'm running straight Amsoil 30wt in the TL and have seen nothing but positive results.
What good can possibly come from starting up with 500 cSt. oil vs. 150 cSt. oil?
The car is basically started a couple times a week and goes 290 miles without stopping every time it's started, with the rare exception of a grocery run. It only gets down to the 30s here in the winter. I have noticed better power and vtec seems more noticable. Pretty much the opposite of what I was expecting. It's a "light" 30wt and besides, no VIIs is always a good thing.
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If it is a newer Civic with VTEC or iVTEC anything over SAE 30 seems to shorten the life of VTEC solenoid.
Do they sell VTEC in Canada? What do they do when their 5w-20 is like motor honey? Does everyone wait for about 12-15 miles before putting the engine into VTEC? If not ..then they're not doing it with a 20 weight.
Now I'm all for using 5w-20 where it's called for ..and even where it isn't. I'm just throwing these questions out there for discussion's sake.
If it is a newer Civic with VTEC or iVTEC anything over SAE 30 seems to shorten the life of VTEC solenoid.
Do they sell VTEC in Canada? What do they do when their 5w-20 is like motor honey? Does everyone wait for about 12-15 miles before putting the engine into VTEC? If not ..then they're not doing it with a 20 weight.
Now I'm all for using 5w-20 where it's called for ..and even where it isn't. I'm just throwing these questions out there for discussion's sake.
Originally Posted By: blueiedgod
The tolernaces on the Honda engines will probably not allow SAE40 to get into all the journals and passages.
How does cold 5W20 get into those passages at startup, then?
The tolernaces on the Honda engines will probably not allow SAE40 to get into all the journals and passages.
How does cold 5W20 get into those passages at startup, then?
Well put.
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