Consumes oil only with driven hard
30 November 2001, 05:18 PM
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Can someone offer an explanation why my MY97 standard car only consumes oil when driven hard, but hardly any under normal town driving? I am using Mobil 1 5W-50 and the car has done 65k kilos. Done about 3k kilometers after oil change and the oil level remained midway between the F and L marks, then did a high speed 800 kilo run and the level dropped below the L mark. No obvious oil leaks or smoky exhaust. Strange.
03 December 2001, 01:02 PM
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When you're driving hard, the oil gets hotter and combustion chamber pressures are greater, which will cause a little oil to get past the piston rings into the cylinders to be burnt.
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