Oil consumption
Oil consumption
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Nefarious

Original Poster:

989 posts

295 months

Thursday 29th November 2007
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Just out of interest, how much oil do you guys use?

Baed on my milage so far, I reckon I'm using a litre every 1500 miles, but I suspect some of that is due to a small external leak. Engine rebuilt just over 7k ago.

touching cloth

11,706 posts

269 months

Thursday 29th November 2007
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That's fine, they say upto 1litre every 1k can be considerer "normal".

RUSSELLM

6,002 posts

277 months

Thursday 29th November 2007
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Latest car hasn't used any in 3000 miles, strangely I'm starting to get worried smile

The old one was using A litre every 200 miles.

Talk about chalk & cheese

optimax sniffer

1,817 posts

245 months

Thursday 29th November 2007
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A litre every 1500 miles sounds good to me

Toady1

1,622 posts

254 months

Thursday 29th November 2007
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RUSSELLM said:
Latest car hasn't used any in 3000 miles, strangely I'm starting to get worried smile

The old one was using A litre every 200 miles.

Talk about chalk & cheese
I knew you would post on this one Russell!!! lol!

RUSSELLM

6,002 posts

277 months

Friday 30th November 2007
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laugh