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The engineers who designed and built you Honda and 1,000,000's of others just like it know far more about their drivetrain and the correct lubricants for your specific application than anyone at Redline or at Blob.

If you simply read your owners manual and use the oils the Honda engineers recommend and change them according to their recommended intervals based on your severity of service, chances are your new Honda will have no problems going 300,000 miles and beyond. Spend your extra pocket change elsewhere.

The exception being if you regularly operate in severe conditions, where cold cranking (below at least 0°F) temperatures are a common condition. There, the synthetic oils do help.

IMO, oil analysis (at least the ICP tests so popular now) are a waste of money for the standard motorist as are the aftermarket additives which are now also popular among a relatively uneducated few. You'll get a lot of heated argument/opinion on this, but no hard data that proves otherwise.


Chumley
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