Boosted1one
Senior Member
It's not that I do not believe you because all that very well may be true.The civic is not equipped with an oil testing lab and it is certainly unable to monitor oil quality. But it can use any sensors and counters it actually has to estimate the remaining oil life. Certainly uses temperatures, mileage and number of cycles. May also be using rpm, boost usage, timers, and any ECU parameters it wants.
Call me old school. But
Im pre-maintenence minder era so standard rule was strict 3k mile change for conventional oils, and then when synthetics arrived it was every 5k, then , 7.5k, then 10k. And now even higher claims by manufactures.
With what you are describing the miles are only 1 variable that can vary drastically. The car would now be able to differentiate between a sub-quality synthetic oil VS a top quality Amsoil brand. Giving different time frames of "oil life" .
If this is all true, (I know no one would actually do this but) a cheapo no name dino-oil in our cars should result in maintenance minder reporting oil life expiring super fast VS a high quality synthetic.
This is all intriguing to me, and some evidence-based results, studies, papers,be or what not would be pretty cool.
anecdotal reports or experiments helpful too.
Sponsored