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Eric Renfro
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Why does this "test" use such extreme formulas to discern whether or not to fix an actual real problem? At 1,000 miles, 1.2qt is seriously very high, like should never happen. Technically if your car even looses even 1/4th of that amount there's technically a serious problem.
I went into my local dealership because after 7,000mi since my last oil change on Full Synthetic Valvoline SynPower 0w20 oil in my 2008 Scion xB, I start seeing my oil light turn on when I brake harder than normal, because when I got home, let the engine cool down properly, and checked my oil level, it didn't even register on the dipstick, meaning there was < 1.5qt of oil left in the oil reservoir. To me, this is an extremely serious issue. To note, this problem has been progressively getting worse each oil change, confirmable from each time, before I get the oil change I get a reading of the oil level, and the oil change place always reports my oil lower than normal (but until this time, it's always been at least in the OK level).
Fact of the matter is though, a car shouldn't be burning anywhere close to even 1/4th of 1.2qt, let alone 1.2qt itself, before being a problem.
This almost sounds like a ploy to get people to go to the Toyota dealership, spend money to get oil services done there, come back and get a followup diagnostic which may or may not cost you ~$110 to get done, just to investigate a more-than-severely-serious oil issue that's way over acceptable.
I'm more than interested, reading about this, to join in on the class action lawsuit over this, because this is honestly horrible, and I would've never bought my car had I known it would consume this much oil before even hitting 100,000 miles. (currently at ~70,000, primarily used in-town to/from work).
Eric
I went into my local dealership because after 7,000mi since my last oil change on Full Synthetic Valvoline SynPower 0w20 oil in my 2008 Scion xB, I start seeing my oil light turn on when I brake harder than normal, because when I got home, let the engine cool down properly, and checked my oil level, it didn't even register on the dipstick, meaning there was < 1.5qt of oil left in the oil reservoir. To me, this is an extremely serious issue. To note, this problem has been progressively getting worse each oil change, confirmable from each time, before I get the oil change I get a reading of the oil level, and the oil change place always reports my oil lower than normal (but until this time, it's always been at least in the OK level).
Fact of the matter is though, a car shouldn't be burning anywhere close to even 1/4th of 1.2qt, let alone 1.2qt itself, before being a problem.
This almost sounds like a ploy to get people to go to the Toyota dealership, spend money to get oil services done there, come back and get a followup diagnostic which may or may not cost you ~$110 to get done, just to investigate a more-than-severely-serious oil issue that's way over acceptable.
I'm more than interested, reading about this, to join in on the class action lawsuit over this, because this is honestly horrible, and I would've never bought my car had I known it would consume this much oil before even hitting 100,000 miles. (currently at ~70,000, primarily used in-town to/from work).
Eric