This may be the reason I never experienced it in my old 350 or the new 370. They were both AT.

My wife commutes to work on the freeway and she gets 26-30mpg on every tank.

I did an oil change at 2000 miles with Nissan Ester Oil.

Dipstick after change read as...

L o------------l---o H


Now at 4600 Miiles (2600 miles later) it reads...

L o-----l----------o H

Coming from an '06 Z OC car, if this maintains I will be a very happy camper!

John

I am burning oil like 1 qt every 600 miles. Never redlined the puppy. Dealer said we start an oil consumption test starting this Saturday.

Oh, in searching the Web, Nissan has a guideline of '1 qt/1000 miles' is normal. ?????

Manufacturing date and serial number?

(reason being is this could indicate a run of bad parts!)

Interesting...I have an AT and I'm at 1000 miles, oil level is where it was the day I brought it home. And I checked it as soon as I pulled up to the drive way while I was checking over the engine.

Although, why a manual would consume more oil VS an auto is curious...

Yeah, it is pretty odd.

I should start a new thread and have this one deleted...


Maybe do something of a 'form'

I had my oil changed at 600 miles. It's now just over 2,200 miles. I check the oil levels after every fill-up at the gas station. I've never had to add a drop.

It dawned on me at work that I've been reading a lot of posts about the oil issues and I've seen statements such as "it took 2 quarts of oil to get me back to full" and "my car was 2 quarts lower than H".

Please make sure that you are not adding oil until it hits the H then come post here how you've burned oil. Per than manual, the H line (hole) is the never to exceed line. This isn't your FULL line. DO NOT FILL TO THE H.

5 1/8ths quarts of oil will get you right to the center of the 2 holes as per my oil change. So if you are going above that....your car never had that much oil in it to begin with. Wouldn't be surprised if a ton of people are running out over filling their cars. They now have 7 quarts of oil in it and claim they burned 2 :)

So the real question is...how much oil have you burned from where u are at now to the center of the 2 holes?

Make sure you follow this....

I'm sure most of you know this already but I thought I would post it because you NEVER KNOW...on this board :)

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3094/manualk.jpg

Straight from page 8-9 of the 370Z Owner's Manual:

Very nice catch. I did not notice that :)

define "some"

Some- adj. of a certain unspecified number, amount, degree, etc.: to some extent. :tiphat:

That's the question...

Is 1qt / 1,000 miles "some" - not to me. Not when compared to every vehicle I've owned.