Is the oil dilution problem with the 1.5 turbo engine in the mk10 Civic even an issue if you don't live in Alaska? I feel like it's been overblown on the internet and if you live in a place with a decent climate (cold in winter, hot in summer) then you'll be fine. Have heard plenty of positive things about this engine from people in European countries for example
>>28802909Can’t speak from experience, but I’m sure short tripping it will exacerbate the issue. This can be said about most cars but if I’m not mistaken Honda addressed the dilution problems in the later models.
Let's just say, stick to the R18 if you want infinite reliability
In the UK I've never heard of this problem actually happening, it's a yank problem with their -30 degree winters
Change your oil regularly and drive until operating temperature, then? Fuck sakes the average person genuinely does not deserve to own a car. This is what happens when we let everyone finance a vehicle because they’re such obese fatasses that they need a medium sized sedan just to go to their local walmart down the street. If you must be a shit eating normie then follow the “extreme” maintenance service. Oh wait you’re a wrenchlet moron and will change your oil at 16,000 miles. Enjoy your oil dilution problems.
>>28803771https://youtu.be/5XdJW4Y8CBg?si=DIQFXtTmMwqFKhMRWatch this before talking on a subject you have no clue on
>>28802909I've seen oil dilution even here in TXt. independent mechanic
>>28803783Honda's own bulletins clearly illustrates to change your oil more often, avoid short trips and warm the car to burn off the fuel diluted in the oil. I dont give a fuck for faggot youtubers and wrenchlet asses like you.
>>28803797Basically "please drive in this very specific way" or the engine will detonate What a fucking piece of shit engine
>>28803801>Hurr durr I need to be a mechanically illiterate moron and intentionally drive my car like a fucking taxi and also at the same time maintain it like it only does highway cruising all day. Fuck Honda for not engineering around my retardation!!!Honda made a terrible engine but that does not excuse wrenchlets like you, those in this thread and greater society.
>>28803805>Honda made a terrible engineThank you
>>28802909Dude the only people that have this issue are black or some form of darkness. Same thing with cvt transmissions, literally if it fails on you it just proves what kind of people raised you and what the kind of DNA (African) you have in your blood.
>>28803829this, literally imagine telling people your brand new honda/toyota blew up in 2026 lmao. basically begging people to call you a nogger kek, all these whites and asians are riding around no problem but when the car gets in your dark monkey paws it blows up. these companies spend a billion dollars on r&d and somehow it's not enough for trayqullious felontavious smith
>>28803834Are you genuinely inferring that this engine is no less reliable than the old R18s etc? It's not even close. You can't blame everything on the darks, sometimes the Japs DO fuck up.
>>28803843>You can't blame everything on the darkstrust me little wrenchlet nu-male, you can 100% blame it on your peoole. all these new car engines are machined and assembled so precisely, 100s of digital aids on board designed to keep you, the engine and tranny safe yet somehow it's still blowing up after a Japanese man in Japan puts it together. you're out of your mind or a kike infiltrator.
It depends on a couple of factors:1. Boost on the Civic is only 15psi, on the Accord is 20psi.2. If you drive like an impatient tard, constantly accelerating hard, you'll be stressing it more often.3. You're more likely to run into trouble if you're using 87 octane instead of 91.4. How often you do oil changes will have an effect.But honestly, why would you gamble with this shit engine? If you need to have it fixed or replaced outside of warranty you'll be looking at $10,000-$12,000
>>28802909Just get the base model k20 with a stick shift. Let me guess, you need more? Just let the car be the sewing machine it was meant to be
>>28804502>only 15psi>only 20psiFucking hell. 20psi on my engine is good for over 1000hp at the wheels but I guess this is the world we live in. All that boost to make 150hp in a grocery getter? Yikes. I don't know why people gamble with engines like these. I wouldn't even trust them over a lease period.
>>28805138adding boost to an engine isn't even that stressful to the internals with modern engine control you wrenchlet. adding 15psi to an engine adds only like 30% to the peak forces the internals have to endure which is less than the increase in inertial loads from raising redline from 6k to 7k. everything else just managing thermals to make sure the combustion chamber doesn't overheat and the engine doesn't knock. turbos have been solved, get with the times.
