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| Thread ID: 90918 | 2008-06-20 03:26:00 | Oil use in a new car | AvonBill (11358) | PC World Chat |
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| 680522 | 2008-06-20 03:26:00 | Would you say that a brand new Toyota Corolla that uses 1 litre of oil every 6000km is using too much oil? | AvonBill (11358) | ||
| 680523 | 2008-06-20 03:28:00 | Hell yes. | Metla (12) | ||
| 680524 | 2008-06-20 03:36:00 | That's a quart in 3728.23 miles..and WELL WITHIN the standards of Toyota..and about every other car manufacturer too. It would be time to change the oil by then and you'd replenish it anyway. Oil consumption has a lot of variables..using inferior Pennsylvania or paraffin base oil (Pennzoil, Quaker State, Kendall or almost anything but a good vegetable-based oil) will always show a higher oil consumption. From a Tech site: (autorepair.about.com) "All engines use a small amount of oil over time. It gets past the piston rings and valve guide seals and is burned in the combustion chamber. A small amount escapes through the PCV system and a few drops usually managed to seep through a gasket or seal. The question is at what point should one consider oil consumption to be a problem? Any engine that consumes less than a quart of oil every 3000 miles is in excellent mechanical condition. If it uses less than a quart in 1500 miles, it's still in pretty good condition. But once oil consumption exceeds a quart every 1000 miles, it signals the engine is approaching retirement. Blue smoke in the exhaust or oil consumption on the order of a quart or more every 500 miles indicates serious oil burning problems (usually due to worn or broken piston rings, a cracked piston, or worn valve guides and/or seals). Sometimes a leaky seal or gasket can make an otherwise good engine use oil. The most frequent leak points are valve cover gaskets, crankshaft end seals and oil pan gaskets. Tightening the valve cover or pan bolts can sometimes stop a leak but usually the only cure is to replace the gasket" Also..if you start the engine on a diet of synthetic oil...DON'T CHANGE FOR CONVENTIONAL OILS...EVER! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 680525 | 2008-06-20 03:36:00 | Providing you did services every 10,000Km as they normally suggest I would not expect any car to use ANY oil until it had done about 60-80,000Km. | Bantu (52) | ||
| 680526 | 2008-06-20 04:07:00 | My Toyota, purchased new, Is at over 60 000, and has no noticble drop in oil level between sevices. | Metla (12) | ||
| 680527 | 2008-06-20 04:09:00 | Nah, way too much. Mates 1991 Corolla, gets a complete thrashing, uses NO oil. Would be lucky to notice a drop between changes (10,000 km). My 1993 Bluebird, no drop between changes. Parents 1992 Estima - no drop between changes. Check first if it's dripping any oil, if it's not, there's something rather wrong internally. I assume it's had it's first 'run in' service? Does it smoke (blue/purple) smoke when started cold? |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 680528 | 2008-06-20 04:15:00 | My 1989 Corolla has done 330,000KM and uses no oil at all. | pctek (84) | ||
| 680529 | 2008-06-21 03:23:00 | Would you say that a brand new Toyota Corolla that uses 1 litre of oil every 6000km is using too much oil? what brand and spec oil is being used in it? |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 680530 | 2008-06-21 03:46:00 | what brand and spec oil is being used in it? Who cares? Its brand new - take it back and ask for another one. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 680531 | 2008-06-21 04:07:00 | It's not typical for the Japanese cars to use oil at all . . . even my Isuzu, with 294,000 miles / 473,147 km on it doesn't use any oil . However with that in mind . . . it is still not bad oil consumption for one to use as little as yours does . I'd file a complaint anyway with the Toyota Regional manager of new cars and let them know what you are getting . Keep any copies of correspondence in a file somewhere . I bet Toyota gets back to you real fast . Make sure that you have some sortta paper trail for the service(s) you've had done or even performed yourself . They cannot penalize you for changing your own oil/filters, etc . That's anti-trust activity and they cannot make you take the vehicle to a dealer . Keep any/all receipts for the oil/filters and whatever . . . just in case you press the issue and need to see them in court . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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