[Shotimes] Low RPM Stumble under acceleration

[Donald Mallinson]

Just a point of order here....Yes, manufacturers for warranty purposes 
(to save themselves warranty expense) will say that a quart every 1000 
or even less is "normal", but in reality, few cars that are right will 
use that much.

the new 300 is going on 4000 miles on the current change and hasn't used 
enough to show on the dipstick.

My '89 SHO with 180,000 miles still uses about a quart in 4500 miles.

The '96 SHO uses about 1/2 a quart in 7000 miles.

Wife's truck uses less than a 1/4 quart in 7000 or so miles. 

Yea, for warranty purposes they say high use is normal, but it isn't.

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:

>Not really.....
>
>Most car mfrs will tell you that anything over a quart every 600 miles is
>normal...and this is one new cars!!
>
>I bought my '94 MTX with 168K miles, and it had been owned by two anal SHO
>enthusiasts before that. The car had only seen Mobil 1 5W-30, and it was
>burning a quart every 800 miles, apparently from bad valve seals (no drips).
>I went to 10W-30 Castrol High-Mileage oil, and cut the consumption to a
>quart every 1,600 miles.
>
>Ron Porter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
>On Behalf Of cmichaelo@optonline.net
>Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 6:36 PM
>To: M Khan
>Cc: shotimes
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Low RPM Stumble under acceleration
>
>1 qt every 1.5months seems high.  If this amounts to less than 1000miles/qt,
>you have a serious problem with oil consumption.
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