Just A Little Worried
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Also called service tech at dealer where I bought. He said absolutely not to worry. Some, even sometimes significant, oil consumption at break-in is normal. It will settle down. If needed, will top off at 5,000 mile check-up. I feel better today after waiting a bit longer before checking oil. Higher reading. Will wait longer before checking from now on. Will continue to post.
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Also called service tech at dealer where I bought. He said absolutely not to worry. Some, even sometimes significant, oil consumption at break-in is normal. It will settle down. If needed, will top off at 5,000 mile check-up. I feel better today after waiting a bit longer before checking oil. Higher reading. Will wait longer before checking from now on. Will continue to post.
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That doesn't look good. As I've said, same engine in both of our cars and NEVER a drop of oil consumed in a combined 85K miles. I would top it off and next time it drops, head to the dealer.
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Thanks. I’m hoping it has sort of bottomed out and will now remain stable. If any further change at all, I’ll add a bit. Can’t hurt to do so.
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You have an oil burner. It is probably going to be a long journey ahead for you. Hopefully Lexus will treat you right unlike Acura that kept kicking me around and using stall tactics and then used their lawyers to make it a painful experience.
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Thanks for your support and advice.
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• Oil quantity (Low → Full)
1.9 qt. (1.8 L, 1.6 Imp.qt.)
1.9 qt. (1.8 L, 1.6 Imp.qt.)
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In case you haven't looked it up already, the Lexus ES350 Owner's Manual in the "Checking and adding the engine oil" section (on page 311 in the 2019 version) states:
So, eyeballing your photo you have some way to go before you get below the half way mark where you can add a full quart and not overfill the oil. Hopefully you won't get to that point of needing a full quart, but if you do waiting until it can take a full quart will save you the fuss of dealing with an unused partial quart of oil. It will also give you a more accurate sounding data point on oil consumption when dealing with the dealer service department - "Used a quart of oil in X miles. Put a quart of oil in and now look where the level is at at Y miles."
So, eyeballing your photo you have some way to go before you get below the half way mark where you can add a full quart and not overfill the oil. Hopefully you won't get to that point of needing a full quart, but if you do waiting until it can take a full quart will save you the fuss of dealing with an unused partial quart of oil. It will also give you a more accurate sounding data point on oil consumption when dealing with the dealer service department - "Used a quart of oil in X miles. Put a quart of oil in and now look where the level is at at Y miles."