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Location: Dallas
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Oil Usage Drop (long)
Well I assumed I was headed to a top end rebuild due to rather heavy oil usage of around qt/275-300 miles. However, (I hate to admit this) my car had not seen any significant highway driving in about a year...or more. I decided to run a couple of bottles of Techron through it just before and during about 600 miles of highway driving where I kept it in 4th much of the way to keep the rpms up. Oil usage has now dropped dramatically...I added a quart and the level has only moved slightly over the last 350 miles! What could have caused this? Stuck rings...?
Note that I only had occasional puffs of smoke on start up which has also diminished somewhat. (FYI, I am extremely familiar with how the check the oil) Thanks,
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Buck '88 Coupe, '87 Cab, '88 535i sold, '19 GLC 300 DD Warren Hall, gone but not forgotten |
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04-01-2003, 11:54 AM
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sounds like good news - you need to drive more!
sounds as though most of your usage was down to oil seeping into the cylinders while the car is parked up.
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