I shifted to Honda’s in 2000 and have only driven them since then; so far I’ve had a very good experience with the Honda and just bought my wife a 2018 Accord last year. She had been driving a 2002 Accord V6 which I had carefully maintained but our grandson had a transportation emergency so we gave the car to him; it was still in very good running condition at the time and he is driving it now. At this point, I have a great deal of respect for Honda engineering.
Gates says your 3L Accord engine is an interference engine.
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That’s an interesting contradiction, according to Honda it is a non-interference engine.
Honda
• All Honda engines are interference except 3.0L & 3.2 which are Non-interference
I get the fluid flushed every time I replace brakes, every 80k or 7 years or so on current vehicle. The lines will probably rust from the outside in first for me. Rust belt! 03 car.
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David: I own an aircraft (Piper Seneca). One never “owns” the plane. It owns YOU!
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Other people’s freedom to avoid preventative maintenance of critical safety systems ends when they want to deploy those systems near me.
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I can understand that; I recall when I was working for LTV the satisfaction we got when we reduced the A7-A’s maintenance man hours down to 11 for each flight hour.
How true, safety maintenance deferred becomes a hazard for everyone on the road!
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I too live in a high-humidity climate and was interested to discover how brake fluid attracts atmospheric moisture; my owners manual requires a brake fluid exchange every three years regardless of mileage.
David, just incase you are not aware of it you do not need to reply to each persons posts . Your posts are seen by everyone . So you can make several replies in one post .
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I see a personal reply as just a courtesy to the individual; I suppose I’m old school when it comes to courtesy and respect. 
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Just for laughs, I went and stuck multimeter into my “older” cars (2006 Nissan Pathfinder / 2005 Toyota Prius) to find out two things: fluid conductivity in highest range I have (2 megaohm) and galvanic effect.
For both vehicles, I received sound infinity and zero correspondingly.
Both had fluid replaced slightly more than a year ago, so it proves pretty much nothing.
I did not even bother about the new car with 5K miles on it.
Interesting if somebody would report his measurements on the fluid after many years in service.
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Hi David. Welcome. You’re free to reply individually, or combine replies and @ the person’s name you’re talking to. There’s no rule about that.
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Thank you for mentioning that point; it’s just my nature to want to respect the time it took someone to write a comment and to acknowledge it personally if at all possible.
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Nothing wrong with. that
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You’re right, Terry; constructive comments made in good faith deserve a response.
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