Like all gasoline engines; keeping the oil changed in Honda and Acura cars is vital for long life. Most Honda and Acura vehicles now have an ‘oil life indicator’ and the remaining ‘oil life’ is usually measured in a declining percentage. Most dealers will instruct the Honda or Acura car owner to change the oil and filter when the oil life […]

Older, low mileage Honda and Acura vehicles can have spark plugs ‘frozen-up’ in the cylinder head. Back in simpler times, the spark plug replacement interval on Honda and Acura vehicles was every 30,000 miles and the spark plugs were around $4 each. In the 1990’s, American Honda (like other car manufacturers) started using platinum tipped and iridium tipped spark […]

The original Genuine Honda Type 2 Coolant / Antifreeze that is in Honda and Acura vehicles has an initial 10 year service life. After that, the replacement Honda Type 2 Coolant / Antifreeze has a 5 year service life.                               The ‘rule of […]

Most Honda V6 engines leak oil from the front plate. The front plate is actually the oil pump of the engine and it is located behind the timing belt assembly. The seals that are associated with this front plate are sealing pressurized oil. Over time, these rubber seals will shrink, get hard and brittle. This happens because of a few […]

Honda service, Nashville Honda car owners are seeking is probably not in the form of another corporately owned, franchised dealership service department. Currently, the Nashville area has 4 Honda franchised dealerships. In middle Tennessee, all 4 of them are owned by corporate entities that also own many other dealerships, of various car makes. This has resulted in an ‘air’ of generic, unsympathetic, […]