[p. 234, 2007 OM] Generally, warm up the engine (2-5 minutes, so yes a short drive), turn off, let sit a few minutes, then measure while sitting on level ground. So if you go to the store for Doritos and salsa, when you come back out with the goods, check oil. Easy.

If you check when it's cold, likely you're getting a high reading. Warm the engine and sling the stuff up and around inside for a while first.

 

Does this mean you'll need to break in the engine?

 

i think so since its a new motor?

 

New motor & break in oil...man, brings back memories.

 

They'll probably tell you to "take it easy" for the first 600mi/1000km, as per the manual. It is, however, a hotly-debated topic on almost every car forum I've been on, whether to baby the engine for the first 600mi, or to drive it hard (but after warming it up properly) in a systematic fashion, to really break-in the engine similar to many race bikes do.

I don't want to get into it and clutter your thread -- there are a few other threads regarding this on here, but my method was the systematically-hard break-in one, and I've yet to notice even a minute amount of oil being burned with the new shortblock 40,000km later. IMO, it works, and works well.

 

Dmassott: Can you tell us the last 5 digits of your VIN? Might follow a trend we've seen that the ones burning the oil are all very, very low on the VIN list. Although this pertained to Canadian VIN's, which may or may not be in the same sequence as the US ones. IE: My vin ends in 00032, meaning the 32nd TSX off the line (or thereabouts). However, this might be the 32nd Canadian one, or, the 32nd TSX in general. Nobody I've seen knows the answer to this, but its interesting to see if your car was one of the earliest production ones as well.

 

its 000142, so i guess im pretty early huh?


curls: on a side note, can you send me some pics of your car with the htch suspension setup? thanks!

 

That is pretty early as well!

PM'd you the pics.

 

FAQs to the rescue!

Actually, the 12th to 17th digits are the sequence number. The 11th is the assembly plant, mine is C, and I suspect most of ours are the same...? (Mine is C011626; I almost bought a C003888 2006 with 17,000 miles. Guess they produced a lot that year?)

 

Yes, but mine is C800032. The '8' indicates destination is Canadian market. Would that mean this is the 32nd TSX in general, or the 32nd Canadian TSX? Nowhere does it specify that.

 

If they don't plan to produce > 99,999 of them, then the most significant digit could indicate destination. Sure, I'll buy that (for a dollar).

I'm trying to remember where I read the plant that the letters in the VIN indicated ... oh, found a site with this for model years up to 1998:
And here's a page from the 2007 service manual(?).

You can also punch your VIN in here => www.daijekbok.com/vindecode.asp

I found nothing referring to the 12th digit as a country of destination,so I'm curious where you found that.

 

Thanks davidspalding

I normally check my oil after resting at the gas station on long drives, or random nice days after a short drive. Was trying figure when people usually check if incase if i was getting the wrong readings.

 

This wasn't where I originally saw it (can't remember where, maybe my Helm's?), but here's a reference to it for the Element: http://www.elementownersclub.com/for...ead.php?t=1868

 

I missed the edit window, but the details are in the Helm's service manual (mine is in the garage and I'm too lazy to go check it right now). Someone did find it way back in 2003:
https://acurazine.com/forums/1g-tsx-2004-2008-124/disseminating-tsx-vin-645343/

 

A-ha! Thanks for finding that.

https://acurazine.com/forums/showpos...40&postcount=1

 

Just some updates my advisor sent me lol












and last but not least.....the arrival of the day!

 

oh and they were lookin at the new clutch today and the effin throw bearing is cracked. so now i gotta go bitch at the place i got it and i gotta pay $50 for a new one from parts so that thy can put it in tonight.

 

out with the old, in with the new lol gotta love the updates im gettin

 

Mmmm, shiny. I've always wanted the opportunity to polish an engine block. That would make for the pimpinest engine bay ever.

 

Nice!! I wish my advisor or his manager or his managers' manager would have taken pics. Always interesting. But before I even drove more than 5 miles, I had stopped, taken a spark plug out, checked that the cylinders were shiny clean, and inspected the exterior of the block as well. Just to be triple-sure that it was a new block (it obviously was).

Any ETA on when it'll be finished?

 

i went up tonight to take the intake back,everything is looking good. it is all in, should be running the tests tomoorrow and could have it back wed if not thursday

 

If there is ANY way you could get them to give you some idea of WHY the old block was burning oil, please relay the information. Specs on cylinder bore (oval instead of perfectly round) would be really interesting, as I can't really see any other way that a full ring and valve seal job would still burn oil (my case, likely would have been the same in your case as well).

It's doubtful they'll run these tests at the dealership, as usually Honda North America would do so, but if they could, and you could relay it, you would be awesome! And this would make up for me sending the H-Tech pics twice.

 

^ haha, i'll see what i can do

 

http://www.facebook.com/video/video....ubj=1600113809


the car is done!!! lol i dont knwo if the link will work, but the fuckers took my car out for a spin

 

^ not going to make a facebook account to watch that video.
post it on youtube or something please.

 

lol then dont watch it ha j/k, i'll try to post it up so everyone can see it.

 

that would be normal. they need to drive the car to make sure everything was installed and working properly.

now, it wouldn't be necessary if they took the car more than 5 miles, or accelerated hard to a high speed.

 

That is definitely NOT the way to break-in an engine. Driven hard is good, but only with proper engine braking and warm-up time, and cooling periods afterwards.

Hopefully you don't run into problems with that new engine! Glad you got it back so quickly though - that was fast!

 

got it back, the new clutch is amazing!! and the whole car is smoother and quieter..

got the paperwork, haha it was $7,000 total.

 

Congrats to you for being able to get Acura to cover - which they should have. I get nothing but positive service from my dealer.