How much oil do you burn?
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How much oil do you burn?
Seems like my early model 2000 (born sometime in 10/99) A4 3.15 burns around half a quart every 3,000 miles. It only has about 35,000 miles on it and everything else seems fine with it. My foot is a little on the heavy side but I haven't done any racing or really been hard on the car. I thought this was a problem for later model 00 and 01 drivin hard. What year C5 do you have and how much oil do you burn?
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From: Coconut Creek FL
Originally Posted by VetteLag00
Seems like my early model 2000 (born sometime in 10/99) A4 3.15 burns around half a quart every 3,000 miles. It only has about 35,000 miles on it and everything else seems fine with it. My foot is a little on the heavy side but I haven't done any racing or really been hard on the car. I thought this was a problem for later model 00 and 01 drivin hard. What year C5 do you have and how much oil do you burn?
97 here and not a drop! I go 5K between changes and the stick always reads the same level from day 1 to the 5K mile point.
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From: Sterling VA
Originally Posted by Dave68
It all depends upon my driving habits; some aggressive mountain running will certainly burn up a bit more, but even with that, my C5 is using between 1/2-1 quart every 3-4K miles.
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I've got a pair of 2002's and neither burn any oil.
Half a quart at 3K miles with a heavy side foot is not bad. There were some issues with C5's that burned a quart every +/- 1K mikes.
Half a quart at 3K miles with a heavy side foot is not bad. There were some issues with C5's that burned a quart every +/- 1K mikes.
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From: Owatonna MN
Originally Posted by VetteLag00
Seems like my early model 2000 (born sometime in 10/99) A4 3.15 burns around half a quart every 3,000 miles. It only has about 35,000 miles on it and everything else seems fine with it. My foot is a little on the heavy side but I haven't done any racing or really been hard on the car. I thought this was a problem for later model 00 and 01 drivin hard. What year C5 do you have and how much oil do you burn?
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I have an '01 Vert and it burns ZEEE-ROOOOOH oil. It's not even black (dark brown but not black) when I change it at 5,000 mile intervals or when the DIC gets into the 30% range.
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Originally Posted by VetteLag00
How much oil do you burn?
Ummm, I don't burn any oil at all. And in case you're interested, neither does my C5 with 22k on her now.
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Originally Posted by Dave68
It all depends upon my driving habits; some aggressive mountain running will certainly burn up a bit more, but even with that, my C5 is using between 1/2-1 quart every 3-4K miles.
Is there even such a thing as this? 
