Oil dilution can happen to any car that doesn’t fully warm up during its usual use. Driving a mile or two to the grocery store once a week and again to church on Sunday is terrible for the engine - CRV 1.5T or not.
Are certain engines more prone to oil dilution? Yes.
Is this an isolated issue with CR-V’s or Honda 1.5T’s for that matter? No.
This has more to do with the owner’s driving habits than it does the engine itself.
Hybrids are especially susceptible, at least ones with direct injection. My Wrangler, like most PHEVs, has logic to track how much oil is in the fuel (via software estimates) and force engine runtime to burn it off. Does it work well enough to keep the oil good long term? I don’t really know, no one does yet - but I do know that after so many cold starts and short trips, it will force engine use until you get the oil hot enough, long enough for it to decide it’s good again.
Of course being a PHEV, the Wrangler has a great solution built in to handle oil dilution on shorter trips.
This is a stupid clickbaity article.
Oil dilution can happen to any car that doesn’t fully warm up during its usual use. Driving a mile or two to the grocery store once a week and again to church on Sunday is terrible for the engine - CRV 1.5T or not.
Are certain engines more prone to oil dilution? Yes.
Is this an isolated issue with CR-V’s or Honda 1.5T’s for that matter? No.
This has more to do with the owner’s driving habits than it does the engine itself.
Hybrids are especially susceptible, at least ones with direct injection. My Wrangler, like most PHEVs, has logic to track how much oil is in the fuel (via software estimates) and force engine runtime to burn it off. Does it work well enough to keep the oil good long term? I don’t really know, no one does yet - but I do know that after so many cold starts and short trips, it will force engine use until you get the oil hot enough, long enough for it to decide it’s good again.
Of course being a PHEV, the Wrangler has a great solution built in to handle oil dilution on shorter trips.
Fuck I just bought an N52 to drive to work only 6 miles lmao, my car doesn’t even warm up, and lots of idling