80,000 miles and using a little oil

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Originally Posted by Hershey

agree instead of weaning it back just go straight to dino. No harm done.

this ^^ makes no sense also. just use whatever oil meets the specification
on the owners manual. sheesh. swap back and forth... it doesn't matter.
stick with synthetic who cares ? --that is not your oil loss--. the fix doesn't come
in a can no matter what the root cause will turn out to be.

just keep an eye on the level. that is all.


---->if it really loses oil



climb under, check for obvious leaks
park it on newspaper, look for drips in the morning

go get it to a shop and:
compression tested (head gasket-rings check)
have oil analyzed for metals, coolant (head gasket check)
have coolant analyzed for oil or exhaust (head gasket check)



if you rev it a lot, drive hard...these 4 bangers lose oil via pcv misting
and this will continue to increase as the engine gets older, but not by much
if it is maintained well. high rpm's will eat oil this way


there is a lot of bad advice in this thread btw...but not in my post