I changed my Oil , but used 10w30 instead of the recommended 5w20, when will my engine explode ?

[UndertheOcean]

yeah , yeah , should have read the manual before I started .

This is an Accord(2006) with 60k miles on it .

question for car savvy DUers , should I bother doing it again ? ugh , lot of work.

[flvegan]

1. It's a fine multi-grade oil.

Your engine will be okay.

[Lance_Boyle]

2. I would swap it out for the correct oil.

Leave the filter, change the oil. It is not a lot of work. Drive car for 5 minutes, park car, remove drain plug, replace drain plug when oil stops flowing out, add correct oil.

You are not likely to have problems with the thicker oil especially in the summer (maybe slightly lower fuel efficiency), but manufacturers do recommend certain oils for a reason.

[dsn]

3. Change it for warranty reasons

I don't think you'll hurt anything by running 10W30 rather than 5W20, but if something goes wrong in your engine while it's under warranty, Honda might put your oil in a viscosimeter, figure out it's the wrong shit, and deny your claim. Because, of course, everyone KNOWS the reason your water pump bearings went out is because you've got the wrong oil in the crankcase. (BTW, on that Honda be DAMN sure you use only one of two kinds of coolant--either Honda Genuine or an "all makes all models" coolant. If you use coolant with silicates in it, you will fuck up a Honda water pump.)

[quakerboy]

4. I was gonna say, you must have taken a Toyota to a GM dealer

Cause that's what they keep wanting to do to my car. My Union manufactured Pontiac branded Toyota car. And they refuse to read their own damn owners manual or tech sheets or whatever. I have to remind them repeatedly each time it goes for service, and each time they look it up, and say "oh, your right. I guess we better put in a special order for that oil, we don't always have it. All our cars use 10w30 standard" Doesn't cost me anything other than the time to remind them, but it makes me suspicious of their real ability to work on the car should anything major ever need to be done.

Having had the recall fix done scares me a bit. GM techs doing a Toyota recall on my car. Did they have a clue what they were doing? And how would I know until something really bad happens?