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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA
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Oil consumption can be masked by leaked/burned oil being replaced by water from fuel combustion especially if the car isn't subjected to extended operation where the water can be boiled off. This sometimes leads to the phenomena of dramatic increases in apparent oil consumption on long trips which really is the water being boiled off thereby revealing the actual oil consumption which has occurred slowly over time.
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