cheapdouchebag
20-09-2011, 12:28 AM
Im looking to service my car at the end of this month, and i was wondering i could grab a few opinions about what products to use
I do take my revs up to 4-5k rpm fairly regularly and maybe give it a good 1-2minute thrashing during the week by letting it go all the way to 7200 rpm.
doesnt have any work done to the engine. besides an icebox and ETD.
My main problem is i cannot decide what oil to use!
As stated in my thread title, the car has done 160 000 kms, i owned this car at 150 000. the car has missed in the entire service history one service interval between 110 000 - 120 000. The next service or the 130000 service was done at 125 000 kms. I am convinced that the car has been fed mineral oil all this time. Very sure this car has been through different brands of oil besides FEO.
Im thinking of either of the three oils for my engine to use im looking to switch to synthetic
-FEO (if im believeing synthetic will worsen my car)
-FEO Ultra (simply because its honda)
-Castrol Edge 10w-40. (My favourite off the shelf brand, but not sure whether or not will it reveal oil leaks for quite a while)
Only out of these 3 oils as my budget is limited and the portion of service money is allocated to only be able to afford these i suppose.
What i would like to do though is to import Mobil 1 High Mileaged Advance fully synthetic oil though. Product sounds ideal.
But i dont think that is affordable in my price range at the moment as i plan to also replace the oil filter, spark plugs, valve adjusting and valve gasket replacement discs and pads. I've also read on other forums that the fuel filter is recommended in the Acura TSX books to be replaced at 160,000 kms? (in their units 96,000 miles). Is this really necessary? Doesnt the fuel filter sit in the fuel tank? Are they actually insisting on this to be done? or is it just a way for the dealerships to make money easily.
Thank you in advance.
I do take my revs up to 4-5k rpm fairly regularly and maybe give it a good 1-2minute thrashing during the week by letting it go all the way to 7200 rpm.
doesnt have any work done to the engine. besides an icebox and ETD.
My main problem is i cannot decide what oil to use!
As stated in my thread title, the car has done 160 000 kms, i owned this car at 150 000. the car has missed in the entire service history one service interval between 110 000 - 120 000. The next service or the 130000 service was done at 125 000 kms. I am convinced that the car has been fed mineral oil all this time. Very sure this car has been through different brands of oil besides FEO.
Im thinking of either of the three oils for my engine to use im looking to switch to synthetic
-FEO (if im believeing synthetic will worsen my car)
-FEO Ultra (simply because its honda)
-Castrol Edge 10w-40. (My favourite off the shelf brand, but not sure whether or not will it reveal oil leaks for quite a while)
Only out of these 3 oils as my budget is limited and the portion of service money is allocated to only be able to afford these i suppose.
What i would like to do though is to import Mobil 1 High Mileaged Advance fully synthetic oil though. Product sounds ideal.
But i dont think that is affordable in my price range at the moment as i plan to also replace the oil filter, spark plugs, valve adjusting and valve gasket replacement discs and pads. I've also read on other forums that the fuel filter is recommended in the Acura TSX books to be replaced at 160,000 kms? (in their units 96,000 miles). Is this really necessary? Doesnt the fuel filter sit in the fuel tank? Are they actually insisting on this to be done? or is it just a way for the dealerships to make money easily.
Thank you in advance.