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Car Forum / Honda Cars / December 2005Oil warning system on Honda Accord - 2.2 Diesel
Can anyone please advise if there is a oil warning light that comes on to warn the driver if the oil level is low on a Honda Accord 2.2 Diesel? If there is one at what point would it come on and how long would you have before the engine is damaged? I would be very surprised if there was no oil warning light. Diesels need engine oil lubrication as much as gasoline engines. As to how long the car has before damage: That probably depends on the cause. If the car was pulled over and stopped within 30 seconds, it may be fine. (I had a catastrophic loss of oil once, after Sears did an oil change, messed up, and didn't install the new filter properly. Five minutes down the highway, the warning light comes on. I pulled over immediately. Saw a mess of oil on the ground. Called Sears and had it towed. The engine was fine. The Service Manager thanked God. If you heard odd noises coming from the engine before the car was stopped, then the engine might be toast. Can you describe what happened? > Can anyone please advise if there is a oil warning light that comes on to > warn the driver if the oil level is low on a Honda Accord 2.2 Diesel? > If there is one at what point would it come on and how long would you have > before the engine is damaged? I was driving on the motorway, 50 mph, and suddenly there was a noise coming from the engine. Pulled over right away and called a recovery company to look at the car. At no time did a light come on before or after the noise and as you have guessed the engines toast. >I was driving on the motorway, 50 mph, and suddenly there was a noise > coming from the engine. Pulled over right away and called a recovery > company to look at the car. At no time did a light come on before or > after the noise and as you have guessed the engines toast. Was it an oil problem? You don't specifically say so. Same can be said for losing ones timing belt. Noise followed by a trashed engine. The report from the dealership stated oil depravation as the cause. Ask them how they knew it was oil deprivation. Could be the warning light failed. Could be a lot of things. Post the year of Honda. If it's 95 or earlier, autozone.com may have a free online manual that will help with info on the warning light. Though I'm not optimistic there's anything there to explain this. Sorry for your loss. > The report from the dealership stated oil depravation as the cause. > The report from the dealership stated oil depravation as the cause. so, are you going to check the oil with that cunningly installed device called a "dipstick" more regularly in future? Once a week should be adequate don't you think! > Once a week should be adequate don't you think! New Honda's in the UK have a service interval of about 10,000. The oil level will need to be topped up from time to time. I just bought a Jazz (aka FIT) and the service interval is 12,000 miles or 12 months !!! Do not wait for warning lamps, check & top up. "Bozo" <spam@spamme.com> wrote re oil changes > I just bought a Jazz (aka FIT) and the service interval is 12,000 miles > or 12 months !!! Does the manual specify synthetic oil? > "Bozo" <spam@spamme.com> wrote > re oil changes [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Does the manual specify synthetic oil? It doesn't actually say synthetic in the manual, just 0w-20 "API service SJ or SL". (The CRV in uk does have synthetic oil specified and from memory that was changed at 10,000 miles.) But I've not seen 0w-20 oil on sale that isn't synthetic. Don't know about USA, but it's about 10GBP or $17 for a Litre container (about a US quart?) so just as well it's only changed at 12000 miles. > Elle wrote: > > "Bozo" <spam@spamme.com> wrote [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > But I've not seen 0w-20 oil on sale that isn't synthetic. From a quick google, I think you're right that 0W-20 is a synthetic oil. > Don't know about USA, but it's about 10GBP or $17 for a Litre container > (about a US quart?) so just as well it's only changed at 12000 miles. Whoa. I hope there's an error in your computations here. I think the synthetic oil in the U.S. runs no more than about $5 a quart. I still use the old-fashioned stuff, at $2 or so a quart, worst case, so I'm not sure. >> Elle wrote: >>> "Bozo" <spam@spamme.com> wrote [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > $5 a quart. I still use the old-fashioned stuff, at $2 or so > a quart, worst case, so I'm not sure. europe is different- VERY different. DIY oil changes are frowned apon, theres a VAT tax on *everything*, and petroleum products cost a lot of money there. might be money to make smuggling in mobil1 :) > Elle wrote: > >> Don't know about USA, but it's about 10GBP or $17 for a [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > theres a VAT tax on *everything*, and petroleum products cost a lot of > money there. Probably pays for their National Health Insurance programs. > might be money to make smuggling in mobil1 :) I say we instead smuggle their health insurance system into the U.S. :-) Thanks for the info. >>>>Don't know about USA, but it's about 10GBP or $17 for a >>> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >>>$5 a quart. I still use the old-fashioned stuff, at $2 >>europe is different- VERY different. DIY oil changes are > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >>money there. Checked in our discount shop. Mobil 1 in 1 Litre containers is £9.50 (approx $16) but if I go for semi synthetic 5W-30 it's about 14.5GBP for 5 Litres)($25US) which is good, so I bought it :-) Unfortunately our health service was never set up for high cost medicine, so it's costing us more and more, hence our high taxes. |
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