"Filled with nanospheres"? "Reduces friction?" That sounds very similar to Slick50 additive, but unfortunately its nanospheres block oil passages (and starve internal components of oil). I would change the oil NOW and do the analysis to see if any damage happened.
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OWN: 61mpg Insight (greenercars.org score: 57)
both blue and silver,
and a 45mpg BeetleTDI (score: 47).
No good deals. Walmart has the best price, in a 5 qt. container. (Good for 2 changes.)
HTh
Willie
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01 MT "Little Red Rocket"
The first "TURBOCHARGED" Hybrid, Insight G1- (01/2003)
MaxIMA Battery (Serial #2), on 8/25/12 @ 301,520 miles
Use: 320,000 mi. @ 57.8 LMPG
Walmart's 0w20 mobil1 5 qt jug is $25. I bought a 6 pack of honda oil filters on ebay for about $30 shipped. Autozone honda filter is about an inch and a half shorter than oem, not using that anymore.
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2001 Silver M/T
-EGR mod by Jeff652
-Grid charger by Jeff652
If your Insight is diluting the oil very much your MPG must be quite low-all indications are that Insights do not waste fuel into the oil(high milagon serveral engines,little blowby)-So 0W20 should be good for 7500 miles.
ed
This is actually incorrect.
Honda is notorious for fuel dilute contamination of the oil, and the ignition and fuel systems must be in tip top shape to avoid it.
I've seen fuel dilute as high as 2% in an Insight that otherwise runs OK and can get 80+mpg like the rest of them.
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Please, please nobody put oil additives in their poor cars. Tribologists put a lot of research and development into the additive packages in oil, only to have a consumer screw it up with some garbage oil additive.
If these additives were so great, the manufacturers of oil would be using them.
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GChamb - what part number/brand did you order for the oil filters?
Also, general question - someone previously indicated a Civic or Accord filter would fit and was a little longer and would hold a little more oli. Can anyone comment? If it fits, what part number?
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2001 Red CVT
19,351 miles lmpg 19.0 as of Oct 7, 2011
Best tank 78.9 MPG, 738.9 miles
Email dave@groe.us
Std Civic will fit on the oil filter. They are all the same except the SI model I believe.
HTH
Willie
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01 MT "Little Red Rocket"
The first "TURBOCHARGED" Hybrid, Insight G1- (01/2003)
MaxIMA Battery (Serial #2), on 8/25/12 @ 301,520 miles
Use: 320,000 mi. @ 57.8 LMPG
Please, please nobody put oil additives in their poor cars. Tribologists put a lot of research and development into the additive packages in oil, only to have a consumer screw it up with some garbage oil additive.
If these additives were so great, the manufacturers of oil would be using them.
Yeah, I know about not adding the additives to oil but I just wanted to experiment on my car plus hit up the dyno sessions back to back. 8 dyno pulls and this "snake oil" which I did a small write-up was all done for free.
That is why I am sending my oil to Blackstone after my 14 or 15k oil change and see if anything happened.
So far in my real world testing of driving nearly 1000 miles a week, no adverse changes I have noticed except better gas mileage and a peppier engine.
Once I get the results back from Blackstone from my oil analysis, I will post them on here.
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2000 Insight MT= NOW at 136k!! Updated Jan 2013
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