Maintenance Intervals are obviously shorter for 'adverse conditions'

How does Honda define "Adverse Conditions" ?

 

I don't know how this matches the official Honda story, but here's what I'd call severe conditions for oil-life.

1 - Mostly short trips, say less than 10 miles.
2 - Lots of idling.
3 - Mostly city driving (lots of stopping at traffic lights).
4 - Dusty conditions (desert? volcano ash plume?)
5 - Lots of driving like a bat out of #~||
6 - Any combination, don't need ALL of 1,2,3,4,5 to be true.

What kind of car? Think it would be worthwhile to have a sample of your oil analyzed? That'll tell you for YOUR personal driving habits whether you can go longer between oil changes. But only good if your habits are sorta consistent.

 

Thanks Jim. I asked as my 01 honda has 58,000 miles. Timing Belt changes are recommended at 90,000, but down to 60,000 in "adverse conditions"

 

Even normal conditions it's probably something like 90k miles or 7 years.
Hot climate is probably worse for timing belt, whereas hot isn't real bad for oil-change interval.

I'm probably over-thinking these things...

I think I'll move this over to General Tech since this place is really for welcome & introductions.

 

oops- my bad. Forgot the section. ok over to tech.

rich