Howdy,
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Eric Linnhoff wrote:
> Also, I burn almost a full quart of oil every 3000 miles with only
> 20,500 miles on the odometer. I have watched as other people have
> started my car and there is a small puff of white smoke when the car is
> started up but it never puts out a "cloud" of smoke when I'm driving or
> autocrossing it. Well, at least none that I can see or have been told
> about. I do autocross it almost every weekend if there's an event. I
> can find no oil puddles where I park the car every day so I don't think
> it's leaking oil.
Head gasket maybe? Either way, I'd do a compression check. There's no
way in hell you should be burning that much oil and getting that mileage.
Take it to Mr. Dealer and tell him to fix it.
Btw, you might also get a scan code reader and see if the computer has
registered anything that isn't to a fault level status...
For reference, my '98 ACR Sedan has 20k miles and doesn't burn a bit of
oil. Its been autoxed all its life.
Mark
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