Jip69

Ok this is not as stupid as it may sound. I just purchased a brand new 2003 S2000 in August. I rarely use the car I have a little over 2000 miles on it. (mainly due to the drive from NY to NC to have it registered and then NC back to NY) So as u see hitting 3750 may take some time especially with the winter where I would only take it out on dry days. Should I have honda some how change my oil but put in the break in oil again? can that be done?

Basically it is gonna take me awhile to get to 3750 and i feel weird not changing my oil after 3 months ..... what is best way to do this because I have read that break in oil is important.

thanks
JP

jankemi

I believe the owners manual says 6 mos OR 3750 miles (check it to make sure). So I'd change it in February no matter what the milage, but I don't see a reason to change it sooner unless you hit 3750.

--Mike

Jip69

Thank you for the info

JP

HJZ

I thought 3750 was for agressive driving anyway.

RazorV3

i hit 6 months first(3750 miles or 6 months first) and went ahead and changed out the oil with 2000 miles. leaving dino oil in any car for a year is ludicrous.

DarioManfretti

Not aggressive, but severe. In other words, a lot of stop and go driving.

Road Rage

[QUOTE]Originally posted by RazorV3
i hit 6 months first(3750 miles or 6 months first) and went ahead and changed out the oil with 2000 miles.

Bret

Just under a year at 3,750 miles I did my first oil change. I too was worried that my oil would deteriorate too much because it was in the car for so long, but I also wanted to leave in the break-in oil (if there is really such a thing) for as long as possible. To see if I had made a mistake by not changing the oil earlier, I had it analyzed by Blackstone Labs. Here's a link to my thread about the results:
http://forums.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.p...threadid=168209
To sum it up, their analysis did not show that my oil deteriorated and should have been changed earlier. My Total Base Number was 3.5 which indicates that it still had an adequate amount of active additive left. Here's a link to Blackstone Lab's explanation of TBN's:
http://www.blackstone-labs.com/do_i_need_a_tbn_.html
They told be that the minimum acceptable TBN is 1, but someone else suggested that a minimum of 2 is acceptable.

There is not any special break-in oil available from Honda. This kind of makes me wonder if the whole break-in oil thing is even true. If it were really that important, wouldn't Honda make it available for people that end up in situations like yours and mine? But in answer to the main part of your question, if I had low milage and had it to do over again, I would feel very comfortable waiting an entire year to do an oil change. It does feel weird, almost like you're neglecting something, but absent evidence to the contrary, I don't think that changing your oil now is really necessary.