Richin Chicago

I thought I would start a new poll on oil use and separate MN6s (manual) from A4s (automatics). Also it's arbitrary but I think a 2000, and 500 mile level will be good breaks

C5Noir

My M6 burns MORE than a quart in 2000 miles. :mad

arkindared

Hasn't used a drop of oil in two years and 24.000+ miles. :flag

willi

Mine uses NO oil in 2000 miles.

TestAmenTC5

No oil usage at all on my MN6. :)

JKLNHDE

I'm in the fourth year of owning my MN6 coupe with 18,500 miles. It had never used 1 drop of oil the entire time I have owned the car. I use Mobil 1 10w-30 and Mobil 1 M-107 filters and change the oil at max every 3000 miles or 50% on the DIC.

Purerock105

50k on my 98' and hardly a drop. Daily driver for the first year, weekend car now :chevy

C5 Hardtop

It depends on how I drive -m6

On track, it will use 1 qt in 2 tanks of gas. Thats about 1 qt in ~250-300 miles

On street, it will use hardly any. Maybe 1/2 qt in a month.

Joel

Vetteman Jack

Initially my 00 used a quart every 1,300 miles. Thought it was finally sealing on its own, but yesterday checked the oil level and with less than 1,000 miles since the last change, it is real close to a quart down.

Looks like I'll be talking with the dealer about rings soon. :eek:

Tom/99

10,700 miles, with no oil usage. :chevy

ditchdigger

7500 miles-0 oil usage.

TVSKIP

MY NM6 USES NOTHING, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH,NYET...between oil changes, and Yes, it sees upper RPMs probably more than it should. Still using MOBIL 1. Broke it slowly for the first 500 miles. After that, normal....BTW...it's a 2K with about 13,000 miles, not used as a daily driver. THIS CAR IS GREAT!!! :flag

Randy K

I just got the car in Aug. with 9500 miles on it. at about 10500 after I had to add a quart. I checked it before I left town and it was a quart low when I got to my destination. about 250 miles. Im not sure how it was broke in? What has the dealers said about the usage?

90 Corvette ZR-1

don't all cars use oil? sorry just bein a smart @##

barryscott

Hey Now:
2001 A4 with 10,000 miles no oil use. :chevy

Richin Chicago

As an aside it is interesting to note that, so far, 52 of the 74 responses are from cars with manual transmissions. Given that manuals only account for roughly 30% of the cars sold... Well it makes me proud to be part of this forum!!!

WALLstAL

A4 burned 1 qt in 4000 miles including 12-15 hard runs at the track.

Chopper Larry

'98 A4 with NO usage each 3000 miles and I have 50K.

QuicksilverC5

An academic point - in general it is NOT a good idea to present poll results in 'percentage of total' form unless you restrict the 'number of variables' to ONE. Here you have two - oil consumption by mileage range AND transmission type. IN GENERAL, such presentation of results can lead to confusion and/or misleading interpretations.

A more useful form, for example and based on this principle - in this case, based upon the votes posted as I currently see them, one can conclude:

Total MN6 owners reporting: 61
Oil Consumption, MN6 owners - less than 1Qt/2000: 45/61 = 74%
Oil Consumption, MN6 owners - 1Qt/500 to 2000 miles: 15/61 or 25%
Oil Consumption, MN6 owners - more than 1Qt/500: 1/61 or 1%

Total A4 owners reporting: 29
Oil Consumption, A4 owners - less than 1Qt/2000: 25/29 or 86%
Oil Consumption, A4 owners - 1Qt/500 to 2000 miles: 4/29 or 14%
Oil Consumption, A4 owners - more than 1Qt/500: 0/29 or 0%

"A4 owners are likely to expereince lower oil consumption than MN6 owners".

Richin Chicago

Actually the main thrust of the survey is one variable, as evidenced by the title, "Does Your C5 Use OIL"
At this moment of the survey , by my definition (which I qualified) 76% have little to no oil consumption, 20% have, at least, moderate oil consumption, and 1% have severe oil consumption. The separation of MN6 vs A4 was just to see if the conjecture that MN6s were bigger offenders would hold up with this sample group.