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| Thread ID: 77532 | 2007-03-13 02:26:00 | **car issue** Am i being told porkies? | MAC_H8ER (5897) | PC World Chat |
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| 532496 | 2007-03-13 05:42:00 | a couple of things...... you can burn oil and not see it unless your following the car. are you cheacking the oil level when COLD ? otherwise you could well be overfilling it a bit and its simply blowning the excess out. its a sports type car which tend to get thrashed by everyone. i would get a compression check done first. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 532497 | 2007-03-13 05:53:00 | yeah the engine is cold when we check it - is that ok or does it have to be hot? | MAC_H8ER (5897) | ||
| 532498 | 2007-03-13 06:31:00 | Buy a V8....then problem goes away. :cool: Instead of chucking in oil...you're chucking in petrol! |
allblack (6574) | ||
| 532499 | 2007-03-13 08:37:00 | yeah the engine is cold when we check it - is that ok or does it have to be hot? yeah thats fine. a lot of people check it whens its hot and it will read low so they add oil overfilling it :( |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 532500 | 2007-03-13 08:43:00 | Its a 1996 Toyota Trueno with the 4-AGE 1600 BlackTop 20 Valve engine in it . - I bought the car back in November and have changed the oil once in it (next oil change is due in 2-3 days :eek: ) but ever since i have bought it i have noticed it burns a bit of oil - not enough to see any blue smoke - and im 100% positive its not leaking any . 1996 = coming up 11 years old and around 100,000+ Ks . Performance cars are usually pushed hard, so I'd suggest you probably have higher than normal wear on the rings (more than a shopping-trolley Corolla for example) that is far enough advanced to use that amount of oil . It's par for the course, why buy performance if you are not going to use it? On top of that, if your next oil change is due within 4 months of purchase you are probably racking up a fairly high weekly mileage . All that adds up to a pretty normal set of circumstances and you'll just have to get used to feeding its habit . It will only get worse! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 532501 | 2007-03-13 10:05:00 | yeah the engine is cold when we check it - is that ok or does it have to be hot?No- check it when cold- if it is warm it will not show an accurate reading since there will be oil pumped throughout the inside of the engine (If you were to measure it when cold and then when hot, you could compare the two readings in order to gauge how much oil would have been moved in this way, so you can 'get to know your car better', but not realy worth the effort unless you perform a lot of work on your car, and even then, I mean c'mon!) . Oil will be burnt by the engine as a result of normal operation, and bear in mind that oil changes are of dirty oil for clean oil- the oil you put in is obviously not what gets taken out- you'll find anything from petrol residue to metal fragments in dirty oil . . . |
Sick Puppy (6959) | ||
| 532502 | 2007-03-13 16:42:00 | If it ain't really broke, don't fix it . . . enjoy and drive it like a banshee if you like . . . I never treat my Isuzu 2 . 6l ( . imagef1 . net . nz/files/100_0225 . JPG" target="_blank">www . imagef1 . net . nz) nicely . . . . I start it and immediately have access to long streets at 5,000+rpm, and I drive it that way . Let's see: 266,890 miles = 429,517 . 8 kilometers so far and not one drop of oil on the ground or burned between oil changes . Castrol GTX 10/40, 87 octane Chevron, NGK Plugs, Double Platinum, 5 speed manual, 32 x 10 . 50R 15 LT Remington tires, AC runs about 30% of the time, gets about 27 MPG or 43 . 4 MP Kilometer per US gallons x3 . 785 liters (does 11 . 48 Kilometers/Liter sound about right? Math MAY be suspect here I think!) I get about 320 miles per tankful . . this might be easier to compute . . let's see . . . 320 miles in 12 gallons = 514 . 9 Kilometers per 45 . 42 Liters Anyway . . . . . . . . . Flog it well and it'll either live or die . . . but it'll be fun in the meantime . Other pixs here ( . imagef1 . net . nz/files/100_0224 . JPG" target="_blank">www . imagef1 . net . nz), and here ( . imagef1 . net . nz/files/000_00041173803475 . jpg" target="_blank">www . imagef1 . net . nz) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 532503 | 2007-03-13 19:53:00 | nice pics there surfer joe - does it do well in the mud ? :D but yeah i love my car - its so incredibly tidy and the previous owner was a painter and painted it in a very nice Pearl Blue metallic (it was black) - he put a top notch stero system in it (alpine head unit and 2x 6x9's) - he got a bigger exhaust installed (as you do :D ) pod filter too - it was his baby and he looked after it very well - the only reason he sold it was that he needed a 4-door car for work and needed the money to purchase a new car - i had to really prove to him that i would look after it and maintain it or he wouldn't sell it to me at all so i count myself very lucky to own it :D |
MAC_H8ER (5897) | ||
| 532504 | 2007-03-14 03:41:00 | nice pics there surfer joe - does it do well in the mud ? :D Probably does well in the mud . . . but with the rainfall here the past few years I haven't had the opportunity to try it . An occasional sprinkler gets the street wet and I experience no slipping or getting stuck . . . does that count? :D Actually, it does very well in the snow when I get to it . . I will have pixs soon from Arizona where I ran thru a blizzard near the Petrified Forest . . . . they are on a 35mm film camera and the last shots aren't used up . . so wife wants to wait till they are all gone and then get them developed . Rats . I didn't have my new digital camera then . . sorry . . . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 532505 | 2007-03-14 04:08:00 | So, how did you demolish the left front guard and bonnet Joe? I assume unpainted means replacements, especially since the right front guard is red. :D Cheers Billy 8-{) :confused: |
Billy T (70) | ||
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