I just had my oil changed at Jiffy Lube and the informed me that the dealership had put the wrong filter on my 98 Honda Civic DX… they said that the one on my car was for newer models and had half the flow rate of the one required for my car… while I’ve not noticed a decrease in MPG, the car has see…

There’s not enough info here to tell you what, if any, problem you have with your car. I will say that you should not put any faith, or even your car, in the hands of Jiffy Lube. At only 97k miles your engine should be fine. The only way it would not be fine would be if you bought the car used and…

I doubt if you have a problem. Decreased mileage would be hard to pin on a smaller oil flow rate. Even if you had a slower flow rate, it is not likely to have caused any damage, unless it was enough to trigger the oil light. Your message has brought up two additional issues. First dealers are…

Even if for some strange reason the dealer installed a smaller filter your oil flow rate would not decrease. There is a bypass valve in the filter adapter on the engine block that opens and allows oil to bypass the oil filter if too much pressure builds up. This is to prevent engine damage in the …

Ignore Jiffy Lube. They are not even close to mechanics but simply everyday people trained to change engine oil and sell extra services. I think they were just coming up with a plausible reason to have you pay $40 to change a $5 air filter. No damage they were just swaying you way off in the wrong …

There are two types of oil filters. Full-Flow which have bypass valves. This type allows all the oil to flow thru the filtering media and has a by-pass valve in the event the filter media becomes pluuged. And are usually the larger filters. Then there’s the By-Pass oil filters. These filters only al…

Excellent post Tester. I see you found your “Bold” text button…

I agree with Tester’s post and I have something to add. Honda used to use a shorter, larger diameter filter for this generation of cars. The newer cars use a narrower but longer filter that works just as well. Honda eliminated the shorter wider filters about a year ago so that the new and old car…

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mcparadise September 26, 2007, 12:01pm 4

Add my voice to the chorus. I would never put much faith in anything told to me by an employee of a “quicky” oil change place, nor would I take my vehicle there for any reason. How do they determine “flow rate” through a filter? I think they were just trying to sell you something.

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