bagwell

yep, I think it's a great article. Thanks CR!!!

just renewed my subscription for 5 more years.

Maybe I'll be nice and get Jill a subscription

chikoo

I actually had Ford quote me that 1qt per 1500 miles is normal on their 3.0l Duratec.

Toys4RJill

For anyone who might be interested. Autoblog podcast spoke with CR and had a guest on to address their ridiculous hyperbole claims. Less than 10,000 cars of all of the CR survey showed oil burning use but CR could not verify how much oil was being used for those who reported oil use, CR had no idea that BMWs in the survey have no dipstick and actually use an oil life monitor to measure oil consumption, 1.5 M cars is claimed but CR based this on their 2% sample of 500k in their study. CR finally admitted that in the owners manual the car burns oil but they fail to admit that car CAN burn oil and not burn enough to warrant an issue, CR had no engineers to vertify their claims.

Autoblog didn't mucb comment, as it was pretty obvious that CR is like usual , full of nonsense and just trying to grab some headlines.

I8ABMR

itsl the direct injection engines that have hit the market. They burn up more oil and deposit faster

mmarshall

CR did not get to where it has become over the years by printing nonsense.

Toys4RJill

Yes, direct injection has some blame from what I am reading from actual comments from owners on various forums. Thinner oils, as well as turbos haev an affect as well.

chikoo

Fwiw

My 08IS burns about 1/2 a quart in 5k miles and my 10ML350 burns zero in 12k miles.

Toys4RJill

Does your ML give you a percentage of how much oil is in the system? I'm curious to know how it works for MB

NateJG

I frequently cringe when reading/hearing what's asserted as Normal.

Death, taxes, pain, work, cancer, and many other things are "normal" - but not necessarily "good", "desirable", or even "acceptable".

I'd love to see more progress towards "optimal" than "normal".

chikoo

Nope. No such thing. I just use the good old dipstick