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Old 01-13-2011, 10:37 PM   #233 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by IDZRVIT View Post
Normal consumption of oil is considered to be up to a quart per 1000 miles. Anything more than that is probably considered excessive. Your answer will be found in a phone call to Nissan or your dealer. You're going to get all kinds of "opinions" in here. Mine is just one of them.
Since many cars can and do, I'd say a 1/2 to 1 quart at the most every 6000 miles is reasonable, which is about what mine does, anything more I would call "should be better". But, unless it gets progressivley worse, the best thing to do is just top it up. I ran a Camaro SS that drank a quart every 3k miles, for 120k miles. It never changed. It ran fabulous. But, when I bought it at 15k miles and ran dino oil, it used 3X more oil. I switched to M1 and oil use went down dramatically. I would say try different oils if you have a lot of oil use.
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