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Car Forum / Honda Cars / October 2005Changing CR-V oil
Hi, I'm thinking of buying an 05 or 06 CR-V. Before I do, I'd like to know if the oil filter is easily accessible so I can change my own oil. I ask this because I had an 89 Accord. I was always annoyed that the oil filter was so far back in the engine that I had to take it to a shop to get the oil changed. Thanks in advance, Bill > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thanks in advance, > Bill ---------------------------------- If it's as invisible as the earlier CR-V's, you can always add an oil filter relocater kit, moving it to the firewall, or higher up, even accessible from above. Sign in and do a search at hondasuv.com. 'Curly' Well on my 01 its not visible, but not difficult to change, you have to reach up for it. One thing to remember if you change it yourself is to make sure you have the old gasket off before installing the new filter. Tom > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thanks in advance, > Bill Yes-- there was an issue on the CRV's from a couple of years ago with regard to those gaskets-- it you don't replace that gasket, oil can leak on the exhaust system and catch fire-- http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5403348/ http://www.detnews.com/2004/autosinsider/0407/14/autos-207870.htm Take it to the dealer-- if they do it wrong and it catches fire-- their fault you get a new car. If you do it yourself and it catches fire you're SOL. Is it worth the risk? Also-- the service interval on the new CRV's is every 5K-10K for an oil change. Not too much to put up with if you have to take it to the dealer. > Well on my 01 its not visible, but not difficult to change, you have to > reach up for it. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> Thanks in advance, >> Bill Well you would have to be a moron to remove the old filter, and see that the gasket is not there on the filter, it would have to be still stuck to the engine block! Tom > Yes-- there was an issue on the CRV's from a couple of years ago with > regard to those gaskets-- it you don't replace that gasket, oil can leak [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Bill Well aren't you just a know-it-all! > Well you would have to be a moron to remove the old filter, and see that > the gasket is not there on the filter, it would have to be still stuck to [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> Bill Matter of fact Yeah! Tom > Well aren't you just a know-it-all! > [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] >>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>> Bill > Well aren't you just a know-it-all! I have to agree that not noticing the gasket is still stuck to the block is pretty sloppy. Wiping the mating surface clean with a shop rag should be part of the job, and it's hard to miss a bump like that where the surface should be plane. Mike >> Well you would have to be a moron to remove the old filter, and see that >> the gasket is not there on the filter, it would have to be still stuck to [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>> Bill I believe that at first Honda Tech's were not paying attention to the gasket, at filter changes and there were fires, and I suppose that its an honest mistake, if you never have changed an oil filter. Tom >> Well aren't you just a know-it-all! >> [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] >>>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>>> Bill > I believe that at first Honda Tech's were not paying attention to the > gasket, at filter changes and there were fires, and I suppose that its an > honest mistake, if you never have changed an oil filter. > > Tom ----------------------------------- I understood it different. The filters were crappy Chinese filters that Honda had never used before, and nobody in the world would have anticipated that the gasket would stick to the engine better than it stuck to the filter. That's the version I heard. FWIF 'Curly' |
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