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Old 07-26-2025, 05:14 AM
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Thanks. If one quart every 1000 miles is acceptable, then my car is acceptable because I had gone 6,800 miles and the car only holds 6.5 quarts. It seems like a lot of oil to burn. I had no idea that cars burned that much oil. I will need to check the oil more often.
Your car should never burn that much oil with the number of miles on it. My wife put on 35-40k mikes per year selling real estate and I drove 30k miles per year commuting for each of the 30 years working. I changed oil on all of our cars and never had any burn off. If you are losing a quart every 1k, you would notice.