Is this normal oil consumption?

Originally Posted by Japanjay Yeah. The oil rings are toast on your pistons. It is pushing oil from in the crank area into the cylinder. And you have a 6spd.

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Is this normal oil consumption?

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03-27-2013, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Japanjay

Yeah. The oil rings are toast on your pistons. It is pushing oil from in the crank area into the cylinder. And you have a 6spd. My service managers was saying it is more prevelant with the manuals.

With the type of consumption that Avantgti7 is seeing, would you notice large amounts of smoke out of the tailpipes and soot on the bumper?

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