I think the oil problem (or lack of oil) has been covered. Other than the ideas other's have posted several times I am completely out of ideas. Someone did mention that maybe this has been an on going issue and it's always been slowly burning oil to the point that you're down 2 or 3 qts every oil change and it's just not noticed. Usually they just drain the oil into a big container and don't look at how much came out. Over time (18,000 miles) the low amount of oil finally caused the failure.
As for the oil light, like others showed, that light does NOT show when you're low on oil. Some cars do (like BMW) but 95% of cars it only shows when the oil pressure is low which depending on how low you are may or may not activate the light. Now going by what the dealer is saying, I would think that the light would have showed up on your car during something like a turn taken at a decent speed where the oil flows away from the pickup. ???
it's great that you change the oil every 4000 miles. I change mine every 5000 but I still check the dipstick in between. If you baby the car like you say you do, why were you not checking the oil at the very least everytime you got gas?
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