Oil consumption on Chimaera 500s

[jimbo fr]

Has anyone got any figures or idears on what would be considered normal consumption on a 98 Chimaera 500 ? Mine seems to be drinking oil at a vast rate , but its not dropping it on the garage foor !
Thanks for any help .

Jim

[Philr]

My 97 500 tends to do through about 5ltrs of oil between services depending on miles covered, but say 6000 miles.
I believe that each engine differs as to how much it uses.

Hope this helps

[jaxdanjo]

5ltrs in 6000 miles !

[Toma500]

jaxdanjo said:

5ltrs in 6000 miles !

sounds okay to me same as mine

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

jaxdanjo said:

5ltrs in 6000 miles !

Normalish....all mine (apart from a boogered one) use 1 litre per 1000 miles.

[jimbo fr]

Thanks for the info , mine seems to be using a 1 ltr every 500 miles , should i be worried , apart from that everything seems just fine .
Cheers .

[900T-R]

jimbo fr said:

Thanks for the info , mine seems to be using a 1 ltr every 500 miles , should i be worried , apart from that everything seems just fine .
Cheers .

Not too uncommon for a 500 I'd say; if all the other indicators are right I'd lose no sleep over it.

[Pupp]

Think of it like this... at least your engine is getting regular significant doses of clean fresh oil

I do

[jimbo fr]

Thanks again , i'll just go and stock up now . Cheers

[mak]

There is some frightning stats in this topic lol, mine's no more than a litre every 4000 miles god these cars are all very different even though they look the same

[Biggles111]

Mine does just under a litre every 1000 miles too - mentioned this to two TVR specialists and they both said it was quite normal. Keeps Opieoils busy anyway!

[cornish pasty]

sounds like valley gasket gone had same problem, high oil consumption and no sign of leak or burning.oil evaporates between valley. hope that helps

[akkabit]

my 5ltr uses only 1ltr per 6k so must something wrong

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

akkabit said:

my 5ltr uses only 1ltr per 6k so must something wrong

Yours is unusual.

1 litre per 1,000 is perfectly normal.

[mak]

akkabit said:

my 5ltr uses only 1ltr per 6k so must something wrong

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You need to get that sorted mate cus from this thread i would guess your engine is knackered

[JanvanderHoek]

My Chimaera500 does about 1 ltr every 2000 kms. I think it could depend of the use of the car, cause back from holiday (2500 kms) it was certainly less than 1 ltr.