981 Engine Oil Consumption (in-between scheduled service)

981 Engine Oil Consumption (in-between scheduled service)

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turbo4ever

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32 posts

122 months

Sunday 19th April 2015
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Having read this http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2014-porsche-c... article, is actual engine oil consumption so high that it needs additional fillings in-between regular service events?

Please post even if your car does not require additional engine oil. State engine (2.7, 3.4, 3.4 GTS, or 3.8 GT4). Many thanks!


BGHughes

123 posts

142 months

Sunday 19th April 2015
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My 981 Cayman GTS needed 1 litre top up recently. It has covered only 4000 miles

The Porsche Centre (Cardiff) told me they expect the engine to use oil, up to 1 litre per 1000 miles

jredram

133 posts

131 months

Sunday 19th April 2015
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3.4 981 Boxster- 17k miles and no top up as yet between services.

rob.kellock

2,213 posts

192 months

Sunday 19th April 2015
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981 Cayman S 3.4.

No oil used from 5k to 19k miles in last 10 months.

mollytherocker

14,366 posts

209 months

Sunday 19th April 2015
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anonymous said:
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Yup.

bcr5784

7,109 posts

145 months

Monday 20th April 2015
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BGHughes said:
My 981 Cayman GTS needed 1 litre top up recently. It has covered only 4000 miles

The Porsche Centre (Cardiff) told me they expect the engine to use oil, up to 1 litre per 1000 miles
My 981 S is similar - but on a previous similar thread it was said that oil consumption reduces as the engine beds in.

engineermk

96 posts

127 months

Monday 20th April 2015
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Same here, it needed a 1 litre top-up at 5000miles and other 1/2 litre at 12000ish.

TackMEU

454 posts

145 months

Monday 20th April 2015
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Not used any in 7000 miles. Going for a service next month.

nsm3

2,831 posts

196 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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Same here, 7.5k miles, no additional oil, level meter ok, not due service until October - 981 CS.

Oi U

211 posts

146 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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2.7 nearly 3 years old and 16000 miles; so far no top-ups between services.

:-)

Gio G

2,946 posts

209 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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3.4 S, topped up 0.5 litre @ 7k miles from brand new. Oil readings all fine.

Thanks G

RBT0

1,476 posts

119 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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Gio G said:
3.4 S, topped up 0.5 litre @ 7k miles from brand new. Oil readings all fine.

Thanks G
What do you mean guys for oil readings fine? Any expected issues?

PowerMalc

222 posts

144 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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Boxster 2.7 PDK 6000 miles from new. (Sept 13)
Within the first 500 miles it went down one segment from full but has not moved since. No oil added
Performance used as intended!!

Trotmant

385 posts

114 months

Wednesday 22nd April 2015
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981 gts covered 5,000 miles no top up required yet, the oil meter has lost maybe one or two bars, it fluctuates every now and again between starts. I'm guessing before 7,000 miles it will need a litre. Driven hard, always obey run in period and use on high revs when at running temp water and oil.

SkinnyPete

1,419 posts

149 months

Monday 15th April
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An old thread, but rather than make a new one...

My 981 never used oil between services, but now that the odometer is into six figures, it's using about one litre every 16,000-18,000 miles.

I think it's the track days that speed things up.

Interested to know if anyone else's higher mileage car is similar.

D77Mac

5 posts

53 months

Wednesday 17th April
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981S. ‘62 reg. 62k miles. Owned for 4 years and 20k miles and never needed top up at all between 3 services. Magnificent motor car, aiming to keep it until I’m taken off the road,

mr pg

1,954 posts

205 months

Wednesday 17th April
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I owned a 981CS for nearly 6 years/30k miles and never had a drop between services. Level never dropped.

TDS_981

2,908 posts

195 months

Thursday 18th April
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Mine has never asked or displayed drop in oil between services, that's over a period of 7 years.

Crudeoink

468 posts

59 months

Thursday 18th April
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SkinnyPete said:
An old thread, but rather than make a new one...

My 981 never used oil between services, but now that the odometer is into six figures, it's using about one litre every 16,000-18,000 miles.

I think it's the track days that speed things up.

Interested to know if anyone else's higher mileage car is similar.
That's an extrapolated oil burn right ? biglaugh track days and oil changes every 16-18k sounds like disaster to me !

SkinnyPete

1,419 posts

149 months

Thursday 18th April
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Crudeoink said:
SkinnyPete said:
An old thread, but rather than make a new one...

My 981 never used oil between services, but now that the odometer is into six figures, it's using about one litre every 16,000-18,000 miles.

I think it's the track days that speed things up.

Interested to know if anyone else's higher mileage car is similar.
That's an extrapolated oil burn right ? :biglaughj: track days and oil changes every 16-18k sounds like disaster to me !
Think I did three track days within the one service period biggrin

If it were any other car I’d change it more frequently, but it’s under warranty so yolo.