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2020 Honda CR-V
2020 Honda CR-V turbo oil follows the Maintenance Minder, plus a yearly change if the Minder does not appear for more than 12 months. No short-trip mile interval is printed.
Difficulty, time, and cost are estimates when this guide gives them. Torque is a cited figure, or it is left off.
Main source: 2020 CR-V Owner's Manual, gas book, book date October 3, 2019. (opens in a new tab), American Honda Motor Co., Inc., published 2019-10-03, read 2026-10-15.
Numbers on this page come from the cited source. Match the engine before you use a capacity or a torque. Do not work under a vehicle held only by a jack.
| Item | Figure | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Oil and filter interval | Replace the engine oil and filter according to the Maintenance Minder. The filter interval is on the display named in the turbo section. | Turbo Engine Vehicle |
| 12-month cap, U.S. models | U.S. models: if a Maintenance Minder message does not appear more than 12 months after the display is reset, change the engine oil every year. | Maintenance Minder footnotes, U.S. models |
| Turbine | The turbine rotates at very high speeds over 100,000 rpm and its temperature reaches over 1,292 degrees F (700 degrees C). It is lubricated and cooled by engine oil. | Turbo Engine Vehicle |
| Oil | Honda Genuine Motor Oil 0W-20, or API premium-grade 0W-20, as printed on the oil specification for this book. | Engine oil specification |
The turbo section says to always replace the engine oil and filter according to the Maintenance Minder. U.S. models: if a Maintenance Minder message does not appear more than 12 months after the display is reset, change the engine oil every year.
The gas book used for the oil guide on this site is the 1.5 L engine. The turbo heading on the page that was read is not printed with an asterisk. The turbocharger is lubricated and cooled by engine oil. If the oil and filter are not replaced at the scheduled distance or interval, deteriorated oil may cause sticking and abnormal noise of the turbine bearing.
American Honda's December 14, 2018 message describes oil dilution on certain 2017-18 CR-V vehicles with the 1.5 L turbo sold in certain cold-weather states. It names lack of power and DTCs P0300, P0301, P0302, P0303, P0304, or P0172. The January 31, 2019 message covers certain 2016-18 Civic and 2017-18 CR-V 1.5 L turbo vehicles sold in Alaska, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Neither message prints a short-trip mile interval, and neither names this model year.
The 2018 message's repair is dealer work. As of February 1, 2019, the 2019 message says the A/C control-unit replacement is changed to a software reflash, in bulletins 18-114 and 18-137, and that a VIN inquiry is required. This page does not turn that into steps.
The oil-change page in this book tells the owner not to change the oil. Read the engine oil and filter guide for that warning and for the printed capacity and drain-bolt torque. This page does not repeat a drain the manual tells the owner not to do.
The turbo section points at Maintenance Minder for the filter interval. That chart is in the owner's manual (opens in a new tab). This page does not redraw it.
Left out, because the sources that were read do not print them for this model year: a numeric short-trip oil interval, an oil-level rise measurement, a campaign applicability result for this year's VINs, and the software reflash as a driveway procedure. The word dilution in the off-highway section of these books is about water in the transmission lubricant when fording. It is not an engine-oil interval.
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Part
Honda Genuine Motor Oil 0W-20
The oil named on this year's specification. Confirm the engine before you buy. The Amazon search is the oil name plus this vehicle, not a part number.
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This owner's manual does not print a short-trip mile interval. The sourced interval is the Maintenance Minder, and the U.S. footnote adds a yearly oil change if the Minder does not appear more than 12 months after a reset.
The messages that were read name certain 2016-18 Civic and 2017-18 CR-V 1.5 L turbo vehicles. They do not name this model year. Eligibility in those messages is a dealer VIN inquiry, not a guess from the symptoms.
On the engine oil and filter guide for this vehicle, cited from the same owner's manual. This page does not copy those figures into a new procedure.
The maintenance checklist is on the site now. The email list is not sending yet, so this box will not store an address.
Same repair, different model year. Use the page that matches the truck or car in the driveway. A figure on one year is not a figure for the next.
These guides cover the same kind of work. Their numbers belong to those vehicles, not to this one.