Hi. I own a 2006 Honda Odyssey's with 117k miles on it. I'll be using the car for some very long daily trips from NYC to Southern New Jersey round trip daily
(perhaps 150 miles a day). I would like to take keep the car until it hits 300,000 miles.
Just trying to limit engine wear (Using Fram Ultra 99% @ 20 micron oil / air filters), and Penzoil Platinum full synthetic high mileage oil with 4,000k intervals.
I'm ok with the items above, and am not looking to change any of those.
My specific question for this post is would engine wear be reduced if I use 5W-30 instead of 5W-20.
Honda recommends 5W-20 on oil cap, but as discussed a million times by others, it was mainly for government gas mileage requirements
at the expense of long term engine wear.
I searched the extensive old posts on this question, saw a million threads on it, but I couldn't find a thread
where someone did 2 consecutive Blackstone oil analysis on the same car (1 with 5W-30 and 1 with 5W-20)
to see which have higher wear metals. If anyone knows of any thread like that or has done a oil test like that, please post here.
Hoping to get some good responses. Please refrain from 1 line responses like "You car won't know the difference either way", as those posts
won't add any new insight into this age old question.
Thanks.
(perhaps 150 miles a day). I would like to take keep the car until it hits 300,000 miles.
Just trying to limit engine wear (Using Fram Ultra 99% @ 20 micron oil / air filters), and Penzoil Platinum full synthetic high mileage oil with 4,000k intervals.
I'm ok with the items above, and am not looking to change any of those.
My specific question for this post is would engine wear be reduced if I use 5W-30 instead of 5W-20.
Honda recommends 5W-20 on oil cap, but as discussed a million times by others, it was mainly for government gas mileage requirements
at the expense of long term engine wear.
I searched the extensive old posts on this question, saw a million threads on it, but I couldn't find a thread
where someone did 2 consecutive Blackstone oil analysis on the same car (1 with 5W-30 and 1 with 5W-20)
to see which have higher wear metals. If anyone knows of any thread like that or has done a oil test like that, please post here.
Hoping to get some good responses. Please refrain from 1 line responses like "You car won't know the difference either way", as those posts
won't add any new insight into this age old question.
Thanks.