Clean valve train pics may not exactly a peek into the internals, but should be reflective to some extent of general health! Valve adjustment is planned soon, so hopefully I will get to share some pics. Of course, there's a lot more meticulous DIY preventive maintenance beyond just oil changes that has ensured a smooth running, problem free engine. Van has 90K, and the engine runs almost just as smooth as I recall from when I bought the van new. A couple of experts, whose experience in fixing these vans I dare not question, recommend no more than 5K on the oil for my kind of use, no matter what the oil vendor claims as the max OCI for the specific oil. The reason for short OCIs is VCM and "severe" service (read 8 shorter than 5 miles trips a day all through the day). Severe service, so I follow maintenance minder if more severe service in the OCI, or ~6K if enough freeway miles in the otherwise severe OCI. ![]() I have a bulk load (at least 10 more oil changes worth) of Napa 0w20, Ultra 5w-20, Ultra 5w-30, and my plan is to use Napa 0w-20 for winter, and a 50/50 mix of Ultra 5w-20/30 in summer. Again.all speculation except the Ashland sourcing! All I can say is Napa syn 0w-20 is an excellent oil which is an unscientific but observant assessment. Napa syn is made by Ashland which is the same company that makes Valvoline synpower. It was only later that Ashland started a separate additive pack process for Napa. Additives may be slightly lower than Valvoline Synpower, or may be the exact same additive package/quantities as some speculate that the first few batches of Napa Syn 0w-20 were just relabeled Valoline Synpower 0w-20 as-is. * Napa Syn 0w-20 - Speculated to be a relabeled Valvoline Synpower 0w-20. * A Valvoline synpower 5w-30 once (I wanted to use it up) * Pennzoil Ultra 5w-20 Synthetic for a bulk of the changes * Honda Dealer 5w-20 for first 4 oil changes. I have used the following over the years: Perhaps my question is as much academic as anything else.Vehicles operated in California SFO Bay Area weather. ![]() So, no problem, I can hire this out & likely will & I presume he will reset the minder with regard to the timing belt. He told me that I could wait until the minder light told me and that he normally expects it to trigger between 105-120K, depending on driving style (a concept well-documented here, got that now!). I called last week and that's when I was introduced to the full concept of the Maintenance Minder. From what I gather it's not a hard job but time-consuming & tedious if you don't do it regularly, so I planning on hiring it out to a good local Honda mechanic. Did i reset all of the maintenance intervals? Now at 110K, I was planning on changing the timing belt. So, at the time, I thought this was only oil life & no big deal. If This was a shorter interval than would have tripped the minder (probably 20%.unfortunately I don't remember), and once I was done I used the button to reset the oil life reminder. I was trying to be preemptive & I wasn't sure if the % being displayed was meaningful. ![]() I changed the oil at this summer 105k (sythetic to sythetic) anticipating a 1500 mile road trip. I expected to be doing a timing belt w/in a few K miles upon purchase and until last week never new a "maintenance minder" was a thing. We bought it at 99k and it now has almost 110k. question, but I'm a relatively new co-owner of a 2012 Odyssey.
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