when a car uses oil where does it go? i am not talking about burning oil on high milage cars


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carl

 

it either burns it or it leaks.

 

no some cars use oil, say for instance in the running in period

i have known of cars with no leaks and with no smoking issues to consume oil

 

my s4 does a littre every 1000 miles etc, aparently thats normall , oh on 100k now and it dont smoke after the first few mins

 

they are burning it mate...no other place it can go.

Alot of newer BMW's use oil too.

 

ALL cars use oil!

and as said they either leak it or burn it!



Blue smoke is LOADS of oil being burnt though.

Alex

 

1 litre/per thousand miles is considered perfectly acceptable by most manufacturers!

 

i get 1 litre of oil to 300 miles in the cossie

 

my focus used to drink half a litre in 500 miles. Never smoked or anything, ran fine for over 2 years!!!

 

then you have a serious problem mate

 

no smoke or anything, no leaks n has been into NMS twice n they say its all running ok weird

although it seems to be doing alot better than that now actually...... saying that i better go check again

 

The M5 uses approximately 1litre every 500 miles. When I took this to BMW they advised me that this was within tolerances for the car.

Especially lovely is that the oil costs 14 quid a litre!

JJ

 

i use about the same in my evo, but runs perfect..but i do have a very small leak from some were, its very hard to track oil leaks down

andy

 

The clio 16v uses oil. A clued up mate told me when my missus was looking for hers to ask the owner if it used oil. If they said 'no', then they were talking bollox and don't know what they're on about.
Can't remember the exact reason he said it used oil tho.

 

when a car uses oil where does it go


when i first bought my white 4x4 saph cossie, it used to go down the side of the car...



someone had tried to bodge a homemade breather system, and the "overflow" was dangling about under the inner wing...


yup,...and the braking was greatly reduced on long blasts....

scary...

 

obviously it burns it or leaks it, where the fuck else would it go

 

In a secret hidden sump, maybe it's "keeping it for later"

 

 

 

I use about 1 litre to every 1000 miles or so in my X5 and its a sweet as a nut. BMW say this is fine.

 

dont forget even in the cossie hand books it states that the cossie can use upto a litre of oil every 600 miles, and that is from new....