5-20 oil on 98 Accord-I4?

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5W-20 oil is not "more advanced" than 10W-30, it's just a different viscosity.

Stick with the viscosity specified for your car. It is safer to err at a higher viscosity.

There are idiots, but it's not Ford's engineers who don't know what they are talking. And, they "cut corners/save money" doesn't make sense if they "went to considerable trouble to publish ..."

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karl
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============================================================================== TOPIC: 5-20 oil on 98 Accord-I4?

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5W-20 oil is not "more advanced" than 10W-30, it's just a different viscosity.

Stick with the viscosity specified for your car. It is safer to err at a higher viscosity.

There are idiots, but it's not them who don't know what they are talking. And, "[they] cut corners/save money" doesn't make sense if "[they] went to considerable trouble to publish ...]"

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karl

============================================================================== TOPIC: 5-20 oil on 98 Accord-I4?

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5W-20 oil is not "more advanced" than 10W-30, it's just a different viscosity.

Stick with the viscosity specified for your car. It is safer to err at a higher viscosity.

There are idiots, but it's not Ford's engineers who don't know what they are talking. And, they "cut corners/save money" doesn't make sense if they "went to considerable trouble to publish ..."

Reply to
karl

============================================================================== TOPIC: 5-20 oil on 98 Accord-I4?

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5W-20 oil is not "more advanced" than 10W-30, it's just a different viscosity.

Stick with the viscosity specified for your car. It is safer to err at a higher viscosity.

There are idiots, but it's not them who don't know what they are talking. And, "[they] cut corners/save money" doesn't make sense if "[they] went to considerable trouble to publish ...]"

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karl

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so, do you know much about cars? do you know about 3 vs. 5 bearing crankshafts? do you know about cast cranks vs. forged? do you know about high silica brake pads? transmission clutch pack quality? how about tolerances? suv rollover? solid rear axles straight out of the

20's? leaf springs? red rear turn signals to save 2 bulbs and a few yards of wire? dude, no kidding, there's not a single nut, bolt, strand of wire, or even paint particle on a ford that is not the cheapest they think they can get away with. not one single thing.
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jim beam

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It's called "meeting the minimum specification".......

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L Alpert

which begs the question, if ford quality is 30% of toyota quality, why isn't ford price 30% of toyota price? [rhetorical]

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jim beam

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No, jim, I do not know much about cars. Why do you ask? Your question has no bearing on the issue at hand. The issue is substituting 5W-20 for 10W-30. Do you have anything useful to add? And, jim, I do keep my mouth shut on matters I do not understand. How about you?

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karl

so why are you defending ford, contrary to any reason for anyone that's examined their design, production technology and quality?

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jim beam

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Here we go again. When you have nothing useful to say about the sugject at hand you talk about something else. You do this frequently. Jim, you don't have to post; relax.

Ford did the right thing, they published, according to John, which of their older models can savely be switched to 5W-20. But you call them idiots.

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karl

ford also published that it's ok to leave the brake fluid for the life of the vehicle. is that ok just because ford say so? nhtsa don't seem to think so.

the point is karl, since you seem to be /so/ interested, that ford quality is poor. the slightest problem with a 5w-20 oil in a poor, low tolerance, minimal material quality ford motor /will/ result in a shortened engine lifespan. and ford say that's "ok", using the same [economic] rationale that justifies not changing the brake fluid, i.e., it's out of warranty and the consumer pays. if that's ok with you, good luck to you.

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jim beam

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