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164 oil consumption question
Hello folks,
I guess this has been asked here before, but here goes.... I approximate the oil consumption of my 2.0 TS 164 to be about 1 litre for every 900 miles. The car has done 94000 so far, and is otherwise in good condition. It doesnt appear to blow smoke of any sort, and runs well. I'm probably worrying over nothing - but could do with some input on the matter. It's used for trips to work at around 70mph daily (round trip of about 25 miles max) and apart from the occasional holiday - not much else. Anyone think this is normal, excessive etc ?? Thanks Marcus |
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"Emjay" > wrote in message
news > Hello folks, > > I guess this has been asked here before, but here goes.... > > I approximate the oil consumption of my 2.0 TS 164 to be about 1 litre > for every 900 miles. > > The car has done 94000 so far, and is otherwise in good condition. It > doesnt appear to blow smoke of any sort, and runs well. I'm probably > worrying over nothing - but could do with some input on the matter. > > It's used for trips to work at around 70mph daily (round trip of about > 25 miles max) and apart from the occasional holiday - not much else. > > Anyone think this is normal, excessive etc ?? > It does vary betwen individual engines and IIRC one litre per 1000 miles is deemed within tolerance. However, I had a 2.0TS 164 that had been well looked after. It generally burned from max to min on the dipstick between oil changes (12k miles) and perhaps needed about a litre adding to ensure it didn't dip below min before the next service. I owned it for 3 years, 89k-121k miles. It was serviced properly and was driven hard only a few times, in Germany. HTH Mark |
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> From: Emjay > > Organization: Customer of PlusNet plc (http://www.plus.net) > Newsgroups: alt.autos.alfa-romeo > Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:07:25 +0100 > Subject: 164 oil consumption question > > Hello folks, > > I guess this has been asked here before, but here goes.... > > I approximate the oil consumption of my 2.0 TS 164 to be about 1 litre > for every 900 miles. > > The car has done 94000 so far, and is otherwise in good condition. It > doesnt appear to blow smoke of any sort, and runs well. I'm probably > worrying over nothing - but could do with some input on the matter. > > It's used for trips to work at around 70mph daily (round trip of about > 25 miles max) and apart from the occasional holiday - not much else. > > Anyone think this is normal, excessive etc ?? > > Thanks > > Marcus Perfectly normal IIRC Alfa say anything up to a litre per 1000km is acceptable, so you're well within the allowance. My 164 TSpark uses about half a litre per thousand miles and whatever it's doing with it, it's not coming out of the exhaust as clouds of blue smoke, so I'm not worried. It's been the same since I bought the car 30,000 miles ago. I think the time to worry is if the consumption changes dramatically. |
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Emjay > wrote in message >. ..
> Hello folks, > > I guess this has been asked here before, but here goes.... > > I approximate the oil consumption of my 2.0 TS 164 to be about 1 litre > for every 900 miles. > > The car has done 94000 so far, and is otherwise in good condition. It > doesnt appear to blow smoke of any sort, and runs well. I'm probably > worrying over nothing - but could do with some input on the matter. > > It's used for trips to work at around 70mph daily (round trip of about > 25 miles max) and apart from the occasional holiday - not much else. > > Anyone think this is normal, excessive etc ?? > > Thanks > > Marcus I read just a few weeks ago that the reason modern engines [and this is not just Alfa Romeo] use a lot of oil is because, lots of car manufacturer's are now filling new cars with fully synthetic oil on the production line. This oil is not allowing the componants to run in properly and consequently excess oil is used. So maybe we should drain this oil early and replace it, just till the engines get run in, then fill with fully synthetic. I don't think we shall ever know the answer till someone try's this to find out. John,UK. |
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