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Re: [OM] [OT] 20W oil, was spare wheels, deer and BMWs, etc.

Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] 20W oil, was spare wheels, deer and BMWs, etc.
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:39:13 -0500
  That was me, Chuck. Most new cars are calling for 0-20W oil which is
quite thin. I have come across a number of Car blog sites in which many
people are complaining of excess oil consumption in new vehicles of a
number of different makes. Consumers Report also described high oil
consumption in three models of cars they were doing long term tests:
Mercedes, Subaru and I forget the third. Subaru particularly seems to be
having issues with their new 2 liter engine. Could be a bad batch of rings
coupled with very low viscosity oil. Stay tuned and watch that oil level.

Charlie
2004 Honda CR-V, 200k miles and no oil burning yet


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Somewhere in the chatter about spare wheels or lack thereof and how
> modern cars are equipped or not equipped someone mentioned that
> manufacturers are now using 20W oil to reduce engine friction.  Someone
> else commented that this might lead to high oil consumption such as
> burning 1 quart per 1,000 miles.
>
> This concerned me because I do have a new Chrysler T&C and had never
> heard about using 20W oil.  You might logically infer that I've never
> changed the oil on that car and you'd be right.  Right now it has 8,500
> miles on it and the oil change monitoring system has yet to call for a
> change despite the mileage and 10 months of usage.  That doesn't concern
> me since the car is used almost exclusively for long distance travel.
> The Buick that preceded it had a similar system and would usually go
> almost 10,000 miles between changes.
>
> But comments about 20W oil and potentially burning 1 quart per 1,000
> miles were concerning so I decided I better go have a look.  The engine
> does indeed call for 5W-20W oil.  With great trepidation I pulled the
> dipstick expecting I might see a horribly low level after 8,500 miles
> given no attention whatsoever.  The "safe range" marked on the dipstick
> has a distance of about 10mm between high and low marks.  The current
> level is about 3mm down from the high mark.  The oil looks very clean.
>
> Looks OK to me.  :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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