Yaris through fill of oil in 1 month .......advice please

andygb

zappahey wrote: »

Trying to figure out if you're being deliberately ironic here.

Please explain.

zartub

When i had a new avensis a few yrs ago i was told to check the oil every fill up for the first 30,000 miles and boy did it drink it right up until the first service then it calmed down. I know yours are past that mileage but also i was told don't use oil like castrol with silicone in it because it burns it off faster.

mattyprice4004

andygb wrote: »

Easy on the ginge OK, know where you are coming from but it still niggles.
The car needs an Italian tune up - please Google.

Still niggles? It's a jokey saying, it's pretty common and is hardly a reason to get upset.

In a large Rolling Road day, the organiser told me I was beaten like a ginger stepchild - and he was ginger

Wig

andygb wrote: »

For those people who say that their car "uses" a lot of oil, but that the car does not burn oil and that it is not leaking oil, just what are the alternatives, apart from the "Oil pixie" syphoning out oil at night whilst you are asleep?
Any car which regularly "use" oil at the rate of 1litre per 800 miles is burning oil - unless it is all gathering in the coolant tank due to a head gasket failure.

But that does not mean it is a problem, if it flies through the MOT emmissions test, the oil costs about £12 - £30 per year depending what oil you use. It does not affect anything else, it just burns a little oil, not a problem.

colino

wig, thats a whole different can of worms. Unburnt fuel or oil in the exhaust pretty quickly poisons a cat and renders it useless. However, a lot of cars can quite easily get through the emissions test without a cat fitted, they are a throwback to US laws that strangled good engine development in favour of cleaning up the smog coming out of inefficient home designs.

oldhand

working wrote: »

I 'thrashed about' more cars then some blokes and know more about what's going on under the bonnet than my OH does - I once changed a car battery on the side of a main road much to his embarrassment.

And I'm a 32-year-old Asian woman.

Bet you felt silly when you discovered it had just run out of fuel though......:p

londonTiger

reeac wrote: »

Do youi know what oil is in it? Maybe a higher viscosity would help - e.g go up to 15W40 or even 20W50.

a higher viscosity means its more runny, if anything it will cause more leaks as the oil is thinner

reeac

londonTiger wrote: »

a higher viscosity means its more runny, if anything it will cause more leaks as the oil is thinner

Are you sure about that? Care to bet on it?

londonTiger

reeac wrote: »

Are you sure about that? Care to bet on it?

not sure. I have worked with engine oil and earbox oil on my car, and the gear oil is 75W90 and is runny, engine oil is 15W40 and is thick.

So it's just a guess.

Either way you should never ever switch oil grades and deviate from the car makers spec. It's just plain stupid, the leak is caused by someone else, without any hose leaks I'm guessing it's leaking somewhere in the engine so the engine block needs to be dismantled to identify faults inside. I doubt change in oil grade will fix that.

Also mixing oil grades inside the car can't be good for the engine

colino

londonTiger, with that hilarious comment, could I respectively suggest you restrict your posts to something you have the first clue about?