Newbie here so don't jump on my too hard. I am the proud owner of a slightly used 2010 EX-L and would like to do my own oil changes and small maintenance myself. I traded my 2006 CRV and always changed the oil on it, cabin air filter, engine air filter and always did the synthetic route and good NAPA filters. I am a little intimidated by the Ody and need to know how/where to gain access to change the oil filter and drain the engine oil. The CRV oil filter was in horizontally above the front drive shaft and would spill oil when removing it and vice versa because I would partially prefill the filter with oil before installing. Any tips, wrench recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Sid

 

Much easier on the odyssey. Turn the front wheels to the right full lock. The filter and 17 mm bolt are right there. Cut the bottom off a 2 liter pop bottle and spin the ilter off ino the big end. Keeps oil from dripping onto subframe. .

 

I have an 02" Odyssey, 175k on the odometer, have been using Mobil1 & QS synthetic 0w-20 & 5w20 oil, it doesn't leak or burn a drop of oil. To much concerns with this warranty crap that some of you are brain washed into believing. Using synthetic oil is so superior than using dino oil. It;s not going to void your warranty by no means.

 

I have a 1996 Land Cruiser with 300,000 miles on the ODO. It has run 7,500 mile OCI from the local corner quick-change its entire life. I recently pulled the engine out and apart (head gasket) and found nothing bad. Dino-juice is perfectly acceptable oil.

Lots of internal engine pictures:

https://plus.google.com/photos/113288758629860606872/albums/5527222618440214481

 

How about 122,000 miles on the original oil? To think people are worried about going beyond 6k miles

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