Yes, Honda certainly doesn't have it's own proprietary oil refinery!Based on their respective MSDS's as late as 2013, Genuine Honda oil is formulated by Conoco Phillips as is Motorcraft. The latter is considerably less expensive and readily available at parts stores and certain big box stores; notably Walmart where it sells for $17-18 in my locale for the 5 gal version. Notice even the bottles are the same with the angled design lines in the upper left corner. Conoco probably stops the assembly line periodically, changes the bottles from one brand to another, and starts it back up again with the same fluid. Thus, I use Motorcraft if for no other reason than I'm reasonably certain that the stuff inside the bottle is what Honda recommends.
True trueYour Honda engine, fed a diet of dinosaur oil, with generic oil filters, will still be running long after the rest of the vehicle has disintegrated.
Your Honda engine will most surely outlast the Odyssey transmission; it can outlast 3 or 4 of them consecutively.
Your Honda engine, fed a diet of a quality synthetic with engineered media oil filters, could be running until forced to stop by Earth being struck by a planet-sized meteor.
You get the picture.
We use synthetic oil and better filters because of punishing temperature swings and short-haul driving with very little run time while fully warmed up. Sometimes 115-deg F (46-deg C) in the summer; snow and ice in the winters (minus 10-deg C...not too bad).
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