TSB for oil consumption on the VQ37VHR.

cab83_750

Check again please. Don't know if I read you right, but no way could .5 qt fill from L to H.

As I sTated above, I strongly believe it takes 2 qts to raise the level from L to H. Hopefully, I am wrong but if you put 3,500 miles and you went down to almost the "L" mark, this means that you are consuming 1 qt every 1500 miles. This is 'almost' at the 'no good engine' range using the TSB chart.

WarmAndSCSI

You're over analyzing. I had roughly half a quart of make up oil available to me, not counting the 1/8 qt. or so that spilled out of the bottle in my trunk, and I was able to get my oil level back up to right below the "H" mark, where I had it initially, after 5000+ miles on this oil change by using what oil I had left.

Now that I think about it, I may have received an exaggerated reading when I checked the oil (and now I realize I did because the car was parked on a slope facing uphill ) but it was definitely slightly low. Let's say more like half-way between the "H" and "L" marks, and is now right below the "H" mark where it should be.

Or rather, let's just say it was 1/4-to-1/3 qt. low since that seems to add up given my oil bottle reserve.

IMO this is the amount of oil a VHR should be consuming. Less than 1/2 qt (now that I consider how much leaked out of that bottle) per 5000 miles, or less than 0.1 qt per 1000 miles.

Broken in hard, broken in fast

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