[road2cycle]

DW-1 for my wife’s Pilot. We haven’t had problems with it so don’t feel the need to make a change. The OEM fluid doesn’t cost me much more than Maxlife would since I prefer to stay away from Walmart.

In my opinion closer interval 1x drain and fills, with the fluid of your choice, is an important factor in Honda transmission longevity. Our Pilot gets a 1x drain and fill every 15k miles. It comes out to costing me about $35 every other year. Even if I switched to an aftermarket fluid I’d still keep the same fluid change interval for my peace of mind.

 

[road2cycle]

Make sure they give her a Hyundai Accent as a loaner vehicle.

When we had our Dodge Stratus we were once given a Plymouth minivan as a loaner. It had the 2.4l 4 cylinder if I recall. I had to manually shift that thing to redline in first and second gear to have any chance of nearing freeway speed on an on-ramp. I’d take the Accent over what my wife and I named POS.