metal shavings in my oil filter

[IBuyUFO]

I'm following what the manual recommends. Although at 4,300 miles I see that the oil level has dropped

 

[KEV1N]

Originally posted by: OS

Originally posted by: KEV1N

IM me? 🙂 And let me know the overall process / accessibility of the components? Did you use 5w20? What filter?

Well, for any oil change, it's pretty much drain, replace plug, replace filter (remember to put oil on the gasket of new filter), fill up how much the manual says to and then check dipstick.

For the I4 engine, the oil filter is on the back facing the the firewall. I don't know where the filter is on the V6.

I used castrol 5w-20 GTX and a honda OEM filter. If you buy your filters from honda, make sure they don't say "by fram" on them. If they do, give them back.

Sorry, I'm a n00b here. I've decided I will do all my oil changes myself on this car.. did you jack up the car or do you have ramps?

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: KEV1N

Sorry, I'm a n00b here. I've decided I will do all my oil changes myself on this car.. did you jack up the car or do you have ramps?

I didn't have to jack up the car, I just reach under to open the plug and then pull out the filter from the top. Yeah some cars you pretty much have to jack up. If you need to jack up your car, you should get jack stands. Remember to pull up the parking brake before you jack anything. :Q

I really recommend you get someone knowledgeable to watch over you the first time. Don't want to do anything stupid to screw up a 25K car.

Visit v6p.net for a late model accord forum to putz around.

 

[TechnoKid]

Good thing the metal was in the filter, thats what it supposed to do. Now if a lot of metal was in your oil as well....then thats a different story. I would suggest reading on Bob Is The Oil Guy, a lot of good info on oil.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: OS

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: IBuyUFO you're not supposed to change the oil until 7,500 miles doing normal driving or 3500 under stressful conditions

It's a brand new car - it's recommended by a lot of people to do so after the break-in to get the metal shavings out

Yeah actually I've driven the car hard a couple times and in retrospect I probably should have waited until atleast after the first oil change just to be extra safe.

I would assume once they are caught in the oil filter they will stay in the filter, especially shavings which would have a helluva time getting thru the filtration.

 

[Miramonti]

d/p

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: jjsole
I would assume once they are caught in the oil filter they will stay in the filter, especially shavings which would have a helluva time getting thru the filtration.

Well it's not so much for the shavings but the particles that you can't see. Hopefully the filter was good enough to catch everything that matters but sometimes it takes more than one pass to catch a particle that can cause wear. It's probably fine but for the extra anal retentive and stuff. 😀

When I changed the oil, it was pretty much cooked black, even at only 2500 miles.

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: OS

Originally posted by: jjsole
I would assume once they are caught in the oil filter they will stay in the filter, especially shavings which would have a helluva time getting thru the filtration.

Well it's not so much for the shavings but the particles that you can't see. Hopefully the filter was good enough to catch everything that matters but sometimes it takes more than one pass to catch a particle that can cause wear. It's probably fine but for the extra anal retentive and stuff. 😀

When I changed the oil, it was pretty much cooked black, even at only 2500 miles.

I would highly suggest getting an oil analysis done on your next change. It can and will greatly help you with how long you can make your intervals, as well as give you info on how your engine is wearing.

The color of the oil doesn't soley determine whether or not the oil is bad. Sometimes after a few miles with fresh oil it will be just as black as the oil it replaced; this usually means the detergents in the new oil are doing its job to keep the engine parts clean, and may have gotten what the previous oil didn't.

Blackstone Labs Oil Analysis

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: OS

Originally posted by: KEV1N

Sorry, I'm a n00b here. I've decided I will do all my oil changes myself on this car.. did you jack up the car or do you have ramps?

I didn't have to jack up the car, I just reach under to open the plug and then pull out the filter from the top. Yeah some cars you pretty much have to jack up. If you need to jack up your car, you should get jack stands. Remember to pull up the parking brake before you jack anything. :Q

I really recommend you get someone knowledgeable to watch over you the first time. Don't want to do anything stupid to screw up a 25K car.

Visit v6p.net for a late model accord forum to putz around.

I know on the Odyssey the oil filter is accessible via the passenger side wheel well; turn the steering wheel all the way to the right and its right there. I'm guessing since that's also a nice Honda V6 your Accord may be similar. I'm suprised you can reach your drain plug without ramps/stands tho 'Square.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: IBuyUFO
you're not supposed to change the oil until 7,500 miles doing normal driving or 3500 under stressful conditions

It's a brand new car - it's recommended by a lot of people to do so after the break-in to get the metal shavings out

New cars dont break in until after 10k miles or so. Still, I changed my oil in my car at 2500 miles, 7000 miles, and just now at 12000 miles where i switched to mobil 1 synthetic.

 

[Lvis]

I bought a used car once, with 35k miles on it. When I changed the oil, I found corkscrew type shavings hanging out of the drain plug hole. It was just like what you get when using a lathe on steel. I drove it for another 130k.

Be sure and keep your reciepts for the oil and filters, and document when the oil was changed. In the unlikely event you do have engine trouble down the road, you want to be able to show that it has been maintained.

 

[Apathetic]

That's pretty normal. Usually they ask you to make your first oil change for a brand new car at around 500 miles to get rid of those.

Dave

 

[Howard]

If you have an iron block you can wrap magnets around teh oil filter to catch metal shavings more effectively.