Consumer Reports finds some newer cars burn too much oil
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Thanks Jill for the pictures.
Quite the contrary Jill. The MB manual states that for normal driving, the consumption should be up to 0.9 qt per 600 miles. New or old engine. Any close or above is excessive. NOT considering the break-in period. Toyota also says that. VW actually goes a step further and says it is normal to have 1 l per 2000 km. Which I would agree, albeit I would consider this high normal.
Regardless of the make, CR is making ppl aware of excessive oil consumption in these makes (MB). A lot of unscrupulous end user don't know it beforehand. So where is CR blowing smoke?
PS. Thanks to the revelation by CR. I wouldn't consider an MB unless things change in the engine oil consumption front. Like minded ppl would tend to agree.
Quite the contrary Jill. The MB manual states that for normal driving, the consumption should be up to 0.9 qt per 600 miles. New or old engine. Any close or above is excessive. NOT considering the break-in period. Toyota also says that. VW actually goes a step further and says it is normal to have 1 l per 2000 km. Which I would agree, albeit I would consider this high normal.
Regardless of the make, CR is making ppl aware of excessive oil consumption in these makes (MB). A lot of unscrupulous end user don't know it beforehand. So where is CR blowing smoke?
PS. Thanks to the revelation by CR. I wouldn't consider an MB unless things change in the engine oil consumption front. Like minded ppl would tend to agree.
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Thanks Jill for the pictures.
Quite the contrary Jill. The MB manual states that for normal driving, the consumption should be up to 0.9 qt per 600 miles. New or old engine. Any close or above is excessive. NOT considering the break-in period. Toyota also says that. VW actually goes a step further and says it is normal to have 1 l per 2000 km. Which I would agree, albeit I would consider this high normal.
Regardless of the make, CR is making ppl aware of excessive oil consumption in these makes (MB). A lot of unscrupulous end user don't know it beforehand. So where is CR blowing smoke?
PS. Thanks to the revelation by CR. I wouldn't consider an MB unless things change in the engine oil consumption front. Like minded ppl would tend to agree.
Quite the contrary Jill. The MB manual states that for normal driving, the consumption should be up to 0.9 qt per 600 miles. New or old engine. Any close or above is excessive. NOT considering the break-in period. Toyota also says that. VW actually goes a step further and says it is normal to have 1 l per 2000 km. Which I would agree, albeit I would consider this high normal.
Regardless of the make, CR is making ppl aware of excessive oil consumption in these makes (MB). A lot of unscrupulous end user don't know it beforehand. So where is CR blowing smoke?
PS. Thanks to the revelation by CR. I wouldn't consider an MB unless things change in the engine oil consumption front. Like minded ppl would tend to agree.
I am glad I checked up on CR's useless claim as I never knew that almost all car engines burn oil, and I never knew that new engines burn more oil than when they age. I also never knew that when using an engine to high extremes, it may burn more oil.
PS. Did anyone know that Lexus recommneds that the LFA use Mobile 1 oil? They almost wrote to sound like you "have to use Mobile 1".
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CR is blowing smoke, I would rather see them state that it is perfectly normal for an engine to burn oil and each manufacturer is different. They also did not report how those experiencing oil consumption are using their vehicles. Also, 2% of the survey respondents are reporting this issue is nothing significant, as there are a number of caveats such as how they are using the car, what kind of oil was used, who performed the oil change which where not discussed. Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be some big epidemic of catastrophic failures on the road because of what CR all of sudden discovered.
I am glad I checked up on CR's useless claim as I never knew that almost all car engines burn oil, and I never knew that new engines burn more oil than when they age. I also never knew that when using an engine to high extremes, it may burn more oil.
PS. Did anyone know that Lexus recommneds that the LFA use Mobile 1 oil? They almost wrote to sound like you "have to use Mobile 1".
I am glad I checked up on CR's useless claim as I never knew that almost all car engines burn oil, and I never knew that new engines burn more oil than when they age. I also never knew that when using an engine to high extremes, it may burn more oil.
PS. Did anyone know that Lexus recommneds that the LFA use Mobile 1 oil? They almost wrote to sound like you "have to use Mobile 1".
No surprise the LFA uses Mobil 1.
I'm also glad CR came out with that article.
I wouldn't buy a vehicle that burns a qt of oil every 600 miles.
I don't care what the engineers say.It's excessive consumption and not normal to me as a consumer As it would be for many potential buyers who would only know if they read the manual of which most don't.
Of course no MB salesman will mention the qt per 600 miles,would they?
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You do know that Exxon/Mobil makes Toyota bottled oil.
No surprise the LFA uses Mobil 1.
I'm also glad CR came out with that article.
I wouldn't buy a vehicle that burns a qt of oil every 600 miles.
I don't care what the engineers say.It's excessive consumption and not normal to meas a consumer As it would be for many potential buyers who would only know if they read the manual of which most don't.
No surprise the LFA uses Mobil 1.
I'm also glad CR came out with that article.
I wouldn't buy a vehicle that burns a qt of oil every 600 miles.
I don't care what the engineers say.It's excessive consumption and not normal to meas a consumer As it would be for many potential buyers who would only know if they read the manual of which most don't.
I guess if they hadn't run the article, one could argue, "with all the data they claim to have why did they not make it available to the public??"
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Of course, it is impossible to prevent all oil from getting past the rings and valve seals. But the point is a well designed engine doesn't burn any oil that you can notice unless you go way past the proper OCI.
A quart every 600 miles is terrible, this is what you expect to see when the oil rings are completely shot and the cylinders are out of round not on a supposedly proper running engine. The Toyota 1ZZ-FE is notorious for burning oil because there were not enough holes drilled in the pistons so oil didn't flow enough and would turn to sludge then harden. When this happened the oil rings would wear out along with the cylinders and the engine would burn oil like crazy. The point is this is a bad design not something you accept as normal.
A quart every 600 miles is terrible, this is what you expect to see when the oil rings are completely shot and the cylinders are out of round not on a supposedly proper running engine. The Toyota 1ZZ-FE is notorious for burning oil because there were not enough holes drilled in the pistons so oil didn't flow enough and would turn to sludge then harden. When this happened the oil rings would wear out along with the cylinders and the engine would burn oil like crazy. The point is this is a bad design not something you accept as normal.
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A MB G wagon needs to have the front/diff oil changed after the break in period of 1900 miles....bad design?
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600 miles a quart is RIDICULOUS for any car made in the last 60 years and is a sign that there is something significantly wrong with the engine. I can't believe Benz would put that in their manual, as it is a flat out lie IMO, that type of oil consumption is not normal.
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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill
A MB G wagon needs to have the front/diff oil changed after the break in period of 1900 miles....bad design?
But the difference between a gas/diesel engine and a typical final-drive-unit /differential is that differentials don't typically use oil unless there is a leak in the gaskets, a loose drain-plug, or on the rare occasions that they overheat and damage the fluid.
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The worst case showed that, overall, owners of BMW 5*Series vehicles with V8 engines were 27*times as likely to suffer excessive oil consumption as owners of an average vehicle.
edit - BMW says 1 quart per 750 miles is acceptable and they specify a 10,000 mile OCI. So between "changes" you'll be dumping in over 13 quarts of oil! There is hardly a need to even change the oil there is no oil left in the engine from the last change anyway just replace the filter and top off.
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CR has a sample size of nearly 500,000 cars so I'd say there is more than enough data to conclude certain engines/models are way way worse than average. Having to add up to 10 liters of oil between changes is absolutely absurd any auto maker that tries to claim this is normal is full of ****.
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Doesn't matter what CR said, BMW for example says adding more than 10 quarts between changes is perfectly fine. And some of their engines do burn that much oil in fact BMW states that their highest performance models may use even more. The bolded part of your post is classic strawman.
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Doesn't matter what CR said, BMW for example says adding more than 10 quarts between changes is perfectly fine. And some of their engines do burn that much oil in fact BMW states that their highest performance models may use even more. The bolded part of your post is classic strawman.
CR also said that new engines do not burn more oil than older engines, but that is not true. All Automakers are saying that new engines burn more at the start of the engines life.
CR is fulll of it.
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They are full of it. They have cleverly written the article to sensationalise the issue. After some of us on here have actually looked at the facts it appears that the issue is minor. CR does not even explain how the owners might have used the vehicles to perhaps cause this so called issue.