excessive oil consumption solved*

Great job! Another member discovered a gasket leak when he removed his plugs too. His engine had around 270k miles on it.

 

Cant wait for your update on oil consumption following that piston soak

 

I've noticed this fact in a number of threads. A considerable number of you all accept the fact that your cars consume oil. ... What? ... Acceptable oil consumption? ... I've never heard of that ... even in junky cars. Please explain how any oil consumption could be acceptable.

TIA for some understanding here.

 

Did you do piston soak too?

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I used berryman’s b12 try to clean the ring drains on my piston. Let soak over night .5 of a quart less brurn a way. But still burn 1 quart between oil changes I have no leaks at all and I've replaced my cat witch I think I could of got a way with just cleaning the screen on it it was caked 50% cover but mpg are great 46mpg good for Seattle. Thinking of try it again with air pressure pushing it drown with the drain plug off . Nothing crazy

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i'd say we're more resigned to oil burning than accepting

 

OK look guys ... I understand your responses to me because you don't know my history. Let me tell you ... in the last 40+ years I've built or rebuilt a lot of engines, both for passenger and race cars. I know all about why they burn oil. To tell you ... the amounts of oil going through your engines ... in the shops I've worked ... we'd call those "mosquito abatement vehicles". I can't at all understand how you could call that amount of oil consumption "acceptable".

 

Last I heard, Toyota's version of acceptable was 1 quart every 600 miles, yet there is no mosquito fog screen behind those vehicles. If you can't accept 1 quart every 3k+ miles, then you're going to need to replace about 90%+ of engines on the road today....sounds like you need to go back to work!!

There is NO internal combustion engine on the planet that doesn't burn some oil. Physically impossible.

 

I can't accept it, yet have done little besides running some 5w40 HDEO in hopes of cleaning up something or mitigating some other thing

When the weather warms I will attempt a piston soak and such.

 

"... 1 quart every 600 miles ...".

Thats 8+ quarts per 5,000-mile oil change. ... WHY CHANGE THE OIL?!?
1 quart per 3,000-miles is a burnt-out engine. It also completely blows away any idea of a low-carbon automobile. It's an air-pollution disaster.











LOL. You guys crack me up. ... Children.

 

This is just nuts ...

The thirsty 30
According to data from Consumer Reports’ 2014 Annual Auto Survey of owners of 498,900 vehicles from 2010 to 2014 model years, these 30 models have much higher rates of oil consumption overall than the average for their model years.
* Only one(1) American car is on the list. ... It's not really American though.
The Chevrolet Spark is a city car produced by GM Korea, originally marketed prominently as the Daewoo Matiz. It has been available solely as a five-door hatchback. The first generation of Daewoo Matiz was launched in 1998 by General Motors' South Korean division GM Korea, previously known as Daewoo Motors, replacing the Daewoo Tico. After the General Motors company took control over Daewoo Motors in 2002, it has increasingly been marketed under the Chevrolet badge. The second generation model was introduced in 2005, with the third generation launched in 2010. An all-electric version, the Chevrolet Spark EV, was released in the U.S. in selected markets in California and Oregon in June 2013. The Spark EV was the first all-electric passenger car marketed by General Motors since the EV1 was discontinued in 1999.

 

One has to ask what the average oil change interval is on the above vehicles

And it still amazes me that more people don't check their oil more often

 

I have 3 Prius now kids had 7 in total only 3 burn oil a lot of oil all around the same miles so it not normal my thinking is is you change the oil regularly this doesn't happen. But I've been told it's the rings on the Pistons get gummed up that doesn't let the oil pass through the drain holes and the holes are too small almost recalled

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You are getting the negative responses that you ARE getting because.........you aren't being specific with your comments.

There have been threads, and individual posts in this forum talking about oil "usage" anywhere from NONE between changes to a quart every couple of hundred miles.

Certainly some of the situations discussed here DO show excessive consumption.
But then some don't too.

Once you get past, oh say, 150,000 miles using a quart every 5000 miles or so should be considered perfectly normal.
Using a quart every 500 miles is NOT normal.

Continuing to throw around non-specific generalities and saying "you don't understand" isn't accomplishing anything useful.

 

Yes it is. In fact, the '1 quart every 600 miles' is in the manual ( unfortunately ).

 

Jeez thats nothing. I added a quart and some to my recently sold classic car - every season I drove that car. And I only drove the car during the weekends around town.

I believe its a trade off having a high compression engine. I just need to double check if high compression engines led to more losses in motor oil.

Lastly if users are complaining about gumming up position seals. Just use marvin mystery oil 100 miles or so before the oil change. rinse and repeat.



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