Apologies – A quick oil question

[Brian McIntyre]

Hello all, my oil could do with a slight top up but I am not sure what type is currently in there.

It is either fully synthetic or 5W-30 and there is only about 1800 miles on the oil as it was serviced just before I bought it so I’d rather not do a full change as I don’t feel it’s necessary yet although I’m willing to if it’s the best thing to do.

I already have some fully synthetic oil that I could use to top up with, supposing there was 5W-30 in the engine already, would topping up with a bit of fully synthetic be bad?

The engine is a Honda 2.2 ICTDI

My instincts are telling me viscosities should not be mixed

Any help much appreciated

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[Bill]

If you don’t want to change the oil then go ahead and top it up with the synthetic. All oils are compatible with each other.

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