Cayenne burning oil

[740i]

Just started a new job chauffeuring a guy who has a Cayenne amongst other cars, it's a 2005 Turbo model, 4k on the clock and it needs a litre of oil every 500/700 miles. Porsche Chiswick tell me this is normal, anybody have a similar problem?

[paracetamol]

Cayenne buring would be a more attractive title for this thread

>> Edited by paracetamol on Tuesday 4th April 13:32

[nervous]

im sure i read tuther day that gt3's burn quite a bit of oil too, like a litre every 1k miles. have i got that right?

[kayc]

All Porsches burn oil...my 993'2s,996'4s,gt3,and 996tt all used about 1 litre every 1000 miles...

[dazren]

740i said:

Just started a new job chauffeuring a guy who has a Cayenne amongst other cars, it's a 2005 Turbo model, 4k on the clock and it needs a litre of oil every 500/700 miles. Porsche Chiswick tell me this is normal, anybody have a similar problem?

Not sure about Cayenne Turbos, although I know there is a disparity of oil usage on 996tts. My car uses 1 litre of 0W40 every 3.5k miles and I know of other 996tt using 1 litre every 1k miles. So there is a wide disparity based around type of usage, oil type and the way the engine was used during the running in period etc..

Edited to say, found this thread over on rennlist:

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums

Looks like a wide variance all apparantly within normal tolerances.

DAZ

>> Edited by dazren on Tuesday 4th April 14:58

[silver993tt]

kayc said:

All Porsches burn oil...my 993'2s,996'4s,gt3,and 996tt all used about 1 litre every 1000 miles...

Really? My 993 turbo uses about 1 litre every 4-5k miles. That includes lot's of fast driving along Autobahns.

[kayc]

Silver993tt,congratulations you should be really pleased...to be in the minority that is!

[nervous]

my 996 has used no oil in 10k.

[kayc]

Nervous,you should enter that in the Guinness book of records for a 911.

[randlemarcus]

nervous said:

I've been looking at the coolant levels instead of the oil levels

Its one explanation....

[nervous]

youve certainly got the measure of me.

[silver993tt]

kayc said:

Silver993tt,congratulations you should be really pleased...to be in the minority that is!

I think your engine is knackered

[nervous]

me too. perhaps thats why its always getting you into trouble and feels underpowered?

[uuf361]

Note to self, check on when I get home.....I had thought, perhaps mistakenly and as advised by the dealer that the self test thing would let me know if I was getting low on oil ?

[nervous]

and yet another victim falls foul of kayc's doom-mongering.

[kayc]

As usual nervous you get the wrong end of the stick..740i is clearly concerned about the oil consumption on the cayenne..i am saying it is normal and he should not worry about it,you conversely imply that his car is f@cked coz it burns a bit of oil...

[nervous]

sorry matey: you misunderstand. im saying your cars fooked cos of the amount of oil you go through. or possibly cos of the way you drive. or maybe the amount of trouble you get in. who knows.

[kayc]

Which of the 4 cars were you refering to nervous?

[nervous]

kayc said:

All Porsches burn oil...my 993'2s,996'4s,gt3,and 996tt all used about 1 litre every 1000 miles...

these 4.

[kayc]

All 4 cars were 'fooked' exactly the same?...theres a coincidence...