I bought a 2007 Honda Accord about two months ago.It has 155,000 KM (96,000 miles) and had regular oil changes at the Honda dealer using their 5-20w synthetic blend.I will be doing my own oil changes and want to know what motor oil I could use that is the same as Honda's..a synthetic blend..NOT full synthetic..

 

I believe if you look into it, virtually all 5W-20 oils are semi-synthetic and are compliant with Honda specs. That said, if your Honda calls for 0W-20, then ALL oils are fully synthetic.

 

Castrol GTX is available in 5w-20 and I've been using that in my kids' Civics. Based on used-oil-analysis, it's good with Honda's "maintenance minder" for oil life. Once allowing the oil life to go down 100-miles beyond "zero" the UOA still said I could've gone a bit longer.

There's no requirement to stay with semi-synthetic. The old story about "once you use synthetic you have to stay" isn't true.

 

Thanks for the info..I'll try the GTX 5-20w Sentec-Synblend and go with a Wix oil filter and see how it goes..