When my oil gets to 15% life (which I believe is based on mileage and nothing else), I start getting the maintenance due soon light. For 750 painstaking miles, I get the notification that an oil change is due. Is it possible to turn the notification back to 5%?

 

 

If I'm alerted at 5%, I only have to drive 250 miles to 0%. Lot less time to keep dismissing the 'maintenance alert' notification.

 

Unfortunately as stated above, you cannot "roll it back" or extend that maintenance interval without simply resetting it.

Mine drives me up the freaking wall as well, between using Castrol Edge that I change between 10 and 15k miles (says im 5k past the maintenance interval now), on top of a dead tire pressure sensor, I've been hearing DING DING DING DING DING every time I get down the road for the past 2 months.

 

I'm in the same boat; I use Castrol Edge 0W-20 and go about 10,000 miles on oil changes. That said, I cheat; after an oil change I reset the OLM, and then I reset it again when it hits 30%.

 

Hmm now the last thing I want is an oil debate thread lol but I'm honestly curious, why do you use 0W-20? Less viscous?

 

I guess (or at least it's the reason why I use it), because it's cheaper or more available. For example I usually stick with Mobil1, and Amazon doesn't always has 5w-20, or 0w-20 is just cheaper.

 

0w-20 is generally considered a synthetic. Depending on who makes it, it will fall under either a blend or full synthetic. With both categories being very good.
Castrol adds their herbs and spices and is perferred with German cars, as the Europeans have their own specification.

Anyway, I'll let horseshoes explain it in detail

 

0W also offers slightly better cold start up protection than 5W30. Plus, its more likely to be synthetic.

I also use 10K mile intervals (in my TSX). I started this practice at some number divisible by 10 (lets say 100K). So I reset the maintenance annoyer whenever it comes on. I do the oil changes every "decade" of mileage. Its easy to remember. 110, 120, 130, etc. Oil changes on the tens.

 

 

Simple answer, 0W-20 outperforms 5W-20 in literally every metric. And now, it isn't less viscous; both oils have the same viscosity when warm; the only difference is when cold (read thick), 0W-20 is less thick (which is a good thing).

 

Maybe, maybe not; "genuine Acura oil" comes in different grades and base oil classes.

 

 

 

but....they're both 20 grade oils...

 

Incorrect, there is exactly zero difference between the two oil grades when at their thinnest (hottest).

 

Again, incorrect, 0W-20 is a 0 grade oil which has superior viscosity stability compared to 5W-20 (which is a 5 grade oil); however, when hot, both oils thin to roughly the same viscosity as a hot 20 grade oil.

 

I believe a xW-- is called a "multigrade" oil, no?

my point was that if he's concerned about the oil's performance as it gets hot...then 20 is the more significant number. 0 or 5 have lesser significance.

As the oil warms, it approaches the viscosity of a 20 grade at that temperature.

 

The term "multigrade" is kind of a misnomer; basically a 0W-20 oil acts like a conventional 0 grade oil when cold, and a conventional 20 grade oil when hot; the good news here is modern synthetic oils are so stable, the better base oils can qualify for the "multigrade" classification without any additives, so it's kind of like, "When is a single grade oil a multigrade oil?"

Agreed; when hot both oils are roughly the same viscosity.

 

 

I just reset it whenever I want...

 

Wait.

Someone else on ACURAZINE is suggesting a simple solution to an issue?

Just take 5 seconds to reset it whenever you want?!?! Instead of a 25 page thread that goes nowhere?!?!

Absolute brilliance.

 

 

I came here for my 25 page useless argument, I've been snubbed!