Posted on 03/22/2015 10:32:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
What Happens If You Don't Change The Oil In Your Audi For 84,000 Miles 789
If you suddenly feel an urge to go change your car's oil right at this very moment, that's perfectly understandable.
You can do a cost/benefit analysis on oil changes. I know that my engine would seize when it’s -30 out.
Sequoia grade SA.
Not to mention the S5000 slipping into reverse on its own.
That sort of hurt the resale value too.
Or do the old trick of adding a quart of transmission fluid to the crank case, run it for a few miles before changing the sludge.
I've had Quaker State make a mess like that, too. Lots of paraffin goop.
Something wrong with the oil control ring (lowest ), which has little to do with compression test pressures?
How do you have 21 new cars and manage to accumulate 108,000 on any of them?
I have owned one used and three new trucks in the last 46 years, I still have three of them (dumb). Add to that two used and two new cars for my wife for a total of three used and 5 new vehicles... eight all together in 46 years of driving. We usually drive a car well over 100,000 miles. My truck now has over 135,000 and is set to go another 100,000 at least. We are driving less now, I think a lot less but my fuel bill does not show it.
My brother, on the other hand, changes cars like shirts.
It really does not take much to lose oil (burn oil, same thing). May be a bad piston ring or valve seal is all it takes.
That’s not a lot of oil for 30+ thousand miles a year.
When I had my Saturn SL2 (and I’m a religious oil changer) I hit a spot at one point where the oil consumption went through the roof. The dealership said that the scraper ring would carbon up with regular oil and freeze in place which would cause the dramatic increase in consumption.
I switched to a synthetic, and driving as I usually did a couple of days later that ring freed up with a freakin’ destroyer screening the task force gout of smoke and crud and it went back to using a tablespoon or less between changes. Gave that car in near perfect shape to the Salvation Army with 216,000 miles on it...
More likely than not I’d consider that it’s leaking the oil rather than burning it, if it was burning it would probably have roached the catalytic converter by now or carboned up the heads.
16-645E 265 gallons Shell Caprinus XR 40.
Makes for a very expensive oil change, don't it? I am trying to remember back when I was with GE working on the BNSF account... I am pretty sure they scheduled oil changes on every M368.
On the shortline I worked for, we were running 567s, and even if we had a bad power assembly and the thing was souping... we'd just let it sit for a couple days, then drain water from the crankcase sump, then fire it off and idle it with the valve covers up to steam off any residual water. Lube oil changeouts were unheard of, unless we had a cracked head and fuel oil contamination... which the oil would be used for the shop heater which was a waste oil burner.
Yeah, we didn’t worry about rolling over because it is hard to get over 25 mph in NJ...
I miss station wagons, but minivans are a bit more comfortable.
There is an amusing story on the net about a car magazine writer who took a Honda minivan and beat a 60’s vintage E-Type Jaguar and a Porsche 956 on an autocross course. The Honda was factory stock except for a new set of Michelins.
Nice.
I don’t think the 6-cylinder engines were powerful enough for them if they had more than 300lbs. of passengers (total)...
I remember a similar story about a Volvo probably twenty five years ago; off the line it had incredible pick-up (and it was a standard station wagon model).
Pretty sure the old Datsun F10s were that way, also. Pathetic junk with tires as well.
Nothing will happen ...... eventually.
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