Amen to all the above... great list to remind ourselves with in times of high fuel prices....

For me personally, I need to add one item to the above list if you don't mind.. that is my wife's ass. She is petite, 4 feet 7 and I am blessed with her small bum and helps a bit in reducing weight. I found that if I start to carry one more passenger in my FIT, my fuel economy goes down.

Of course when I marry her 25 years ago, I did not have FIT fuel costs in my mind when saying my marriage vows at the altar but things seems to work out for me 25 years later

 

bye bye winter additives! WOOOT

 

YEAH! Preach it, brotha. Truth!

 

In 2004 they would sell a oil additive from MOC MOC Products - Preview Information as part of the 15K maintenance which was the only thing added with the fuel treatment too for the 99 dollar oil change. I threw it in the Civic once and then a few years later they said it was not necessary Honda put the additives on the pistons. 2003 was when Honda started to change over to longer oil changes and it took 2 years before the dealer got the memo about the additives on the pistons.

Engine failure has more to do with fuel then oil unless you never change it or run out of oil in my opinion.

 

I also noticed a ~10% increase in mileage since having the recall work done. It seems like it could be chalked up to the warmer weather and the warm weather fuel mix, however I have now had the car 3 spring seasons, always driving the exact same commute every day and this is the first time I've ever seen such a noticeable change. I even hit some really awful traffic this past week and still got 35MPG where I used to get 33MPG on a good week (now I get 36-37 on a good week!). That's hand-calculated, btw.

 

My car feels noticeably preppier since I got the recall service and has been like this for 3 days now. Weather temperature has been the same all week and I'm still on the same tank of gas.