Thread: Burning Oil
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Old 01-27-2010, 11:02 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by whiterider00 View Post
mine burns a bit of oil too, but it has almost 180k miles, and its been doing it since i bought the car. roughly 1 qt between oil changes is what i have to add. and the light comes on for me taking hard left turns too. i assume the sensor for low oil is on the left(drivers) side of the engine and when all the oil moves to the other side during the turn, the sensor thinks ur low. suddenly burning that much doesnt seem good tho. most likely rings like everyone else said.


I go through a quart or more between oil changes since new as well, 2001 2.4L Maybe using mobil1 synthetic since it was new was a bad thing and the rings never seated properly? who knows.
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