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Old Sep 17, 2013 | 05:37 PM
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My c5 with 85,000 miles- all soft miles has been using a little oil. A friend had it from 15k miles until I bought it from him at 80k miles. we very seldom push it- except when we did vettes for vettes and did 151 down back stretch!!! I have always been told NEVER fill you oil to the full line always fill it a little above half-way- engine runs better and saves the pollutions stuff. That being said about every three months I get a low engine oil message- I check it and it is a little below the bottom line. I put in a little over half quart- ok for another 3 months. My friend said it was like that when he had it. Is that normal???
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Check out this link. I was surprised.

http://ww2.justanswer.com/uploads/PE...717_caddy1.pdf

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103k miles and i use 1 qt every 5k. Did compression check a while back and everything spot on, so that oil use is just normal.
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