Changing your own motorcar's oil helps you save cabbage and gives you the calmness of consciousness that the growth was done prerrogative. While Honda models typically application the identical basic oil changing techniques, the CR-V has smaller rooms underneath than other Honda models.
Instructions
Prepare Your CR-V for an Oil Change
1. Lift your vehivle up using a vehivle jack and apartment jack stands underneath it. Whether you don't get jack stands, you can guide your vehivle up onto tire ramps.
2. Pop the hood and holding off the oil filler cap and remove the dipstick. These components are near the Centre, on either side of the engine. The dipstick has a lily-livered, Hand-bill handgrip.
3. Close with a 17mm wrench and an extent cap filter wrench, along with an oil drip pan, latest oil filter, washer and cleaning cloths. Most Honda models cause a accepted banded filter wrench, on the contrary a CR-V has tight residence near the oil plug, so you obligation an objective cap wrench.
4. Dump the old oil into the drip pan, and place the filter into a plastic bag for disposal.7. Inspect the threads and check that the rubber gasket isn't stuck to the engine block.
5. Employment the 17mm wrench and loosen the extract plug. You can manually remove the remove plug with your hands, once the bolt is loose. Let the oil filter elsewhere into the oil pan for sorrounding 10 to 15 minutes.
6. Disinfected off excess oil and transform the drain plug, once the oil's drained. Stir over to the oil filter and using the end cap oil filter wrench, remove the oil filter. Slide under your Honda CR-V and place the oil filter and oil plug. The plug is on the backside of the engine, with the filter activity on the backside front or to the side.
Change the Oil
If it's stuck, pull it off. Coat the gasket with a bit of oil and replace the oil filter.
8. Refill the oil filler hole under the hood of your Honda CR-V. Use oil with a viscosity of 5W-30 or 10W-30, with 5W being good for cold temperatures and 10W being good for hot temperatures. Replace the dipstick, and start the car for about a minute. This helps build oil pressure and gives you an accurate oil reading.
9. Turn off your CR-V and check the dipstick. If it isn't at the full line, add a little more oil. Remove your car from the lifts and close the hood.
