Should I listen to Honda on maintenance?

Owner's manual states the oil filter should be changed every other oil change instead of every oil change. Why do they recommend this and should I listen or ignore it?

So can oil filters really last 20,000 miles?

Oil filters are cheaper than the oil, so why not change them?

Personally I see it as cheap insurance… Replace the filter every time.

Oil filters are so cheap to the point the additional cost is negligible. It's just standard practice.

I would change the filter too every time. Is your filter very hard to get to or huge? Typically they don't cost so much that skipping a change saves that much. The engineers did more study than you and I and to warranty the vehicle with that kind of recommendation, they must know what they're talking about- as long as you use their filter and not some cheap one.

Some people have been known to do this. I have always felt that for the small cost of an oil filter, I get piece of mind having a new filter with new oil.

I wouldn't. Oil filters are too inexpensive to take the risk.

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