Again I am back for 3rd
quart of oil at 2794 miles later with 9610 odometer miles!
To avoid overfilling, hold back the last
half quart of oil — a certain amount of old oil will remain in your engine even after it has been drained.
I told him this story and he without hesitation poured 4 remaining
quarts of oil into my engine.
Fill with oil making sure pot is big enough so 2
quarts of oil only comes up about half way.
I put two
quarts of oil in my car, then it just started throwing out smoke almost immediately out of exhaust pipe.
My 2014 Ram Eco Diesel's oil cooler failed and injected 1 to 2
quarts of oil into my cooling system.
It takes.6
quarts of oil, and 10W - 30 is recommended.
«To be safe add
a quart of oil» is all I got from the dealer.
Newer cars which allow their engines to run 8 - 10k miles between services have between 8 - 10
quarts of oil.
The symmetrical polished filler caps — one for gasoline and the other for 16.9
quarts of oil — are jewelry on the rear flanks.
So now, my car has 6
quarts of oil and quart of transmission fluid in it.
Found out it goes through about
a quart of oil every 700 miles.
I was thinking that extra half a quart may have done some damage... Because he put in all
the quarts of oil.
This car was some nearly eight -
quarts of oil.
It's basically based off of the comments in various forums, where people complain that their brand new sports - friendly car burns half
a quart of oil every 1k miles, even after the break - in period, and the dealer won't do anything about it.
I add
a quart of oil at 3,000 miles, then get an oil change at 5,000 miles.
So after 3000 miles, vehicles are regularly low by 3
quarts of oil?
After that incident though, you'd probably burn
a quart of oil every two hundred miles until you forgot to top it off one day and, well, you know the rest.
@ Garrett: I've never tried this but a guy I work with told me that a mechanic friend of his drains out
a quart of oil and tops it back off with automatic transmission fluid.
So we left the old one on and put the plug back in and I put in about 4
quarts of oil.
They went strictly oil cooled with a giant oil cooler and 8
quarts of oil.
Our parts delivery truck has a filter that holds over
a quart of oil, AND it's vertical.
Also - it seems to get marginally better when I add
a quart of oil to it (it leaks a little oil, that's another issue for another day).
I have to add
a quart of oil with nearly every tank of gas.
Used
a quart of oil every 600 miles and Audi says that's with in specification.
Acura is claiming it is normal to add
a quart of oil at 1000 miles.
If a driver has to add
a quart of oil once per month, that can mean adding up to 7 to 9 quarts of oil between oil changes.
Since day one it has always needed at least one
quart of oil added between the 3,000 mile oil changes.
Just making sure I am reading this right, you drain the oil, and it's a truck so it's probably 5 or 6 quarts, put one quart back in and then run the engine when it's short 5
quarts of oil?
Put in 5
quarts of oil - ran fine until reached next destination - started knocking again - oil was present this time - drove...
Most V - 6 and V - 8 engines and other select vehicles require more than 5
quarts of oil.
The RX - 8 burns oil at a pretty fast rate; I will be adding
a quart of oil in another 500-1000 miles.
5,000 - and 10,000 - mile oil service (regular or synthetic), including 5 to 7
quarts of oil, oil filter, brake inspection, multi-point inspection and tire rotation
Hi There, Your Dodge Shadow should hold 4
quarts of oil.
If you have the 2.0 L engine, and are changing both the filter and the oil, add 6.3
quarts of oil.
It uses
a quart of oil about every 6,000 miles - amazing.
the key fob stopped working, the motor burns
a quart of oil a week, the MAF has gone twice, then the fuel injectors started surging, now the car bucks like a bronco, the doors won't stop chiming like they are open all the time!!
* Tire balancing, tax, and more than 8
quarts of oil extra.
A typical oil change used 7.5 — 8
quarts of oil.
Dealership put
another quart of oil.