Is it normal that a car burns oil from the factory? Like the manufacturer itself tells u that it will burn oil and it's normal?
My cousin has a 2016 Peugeot 2008, with a NA 1.2 3 cylinder engine, he bought it used with 50k km, he doesn't know anything about cars, he found that the previous owner was putting 10W40, so he continued doing that, now it has 72k, and it's burning oil, those engines are known for burning oil, but come on, it has only 72k Km and it's burning Castrol GTX 10W40?? I find that super weird
Some manufacturers managed to make cars that will burn oil from the get go. It is poor manufacturing and unfortunately, the permanent fix is not cheap (the engine rebuilt).
For your case, change the PCV valve and pray it helps the situation, if not, it will need the engine repair.
Nowadays, reliable engines are countable unfortunately.
Well i will tell to do that and hopefully would fix the problem
Thank you 🙏
Every engine burns a little oil. How many liters/1000km or between oil changes does he have to add?
I am not really sure, since it's not my car, but last week, i checked the level, it was just above the minimum, i added oil till it reached max, i checked yesterday (after about 700 km), the level is just above the middle
Not great, but not terrible either. The big thing with oil burners is to keep a couple bottles of oil in the car and check the oil every time somebody fills up the car with gas/petrol - a little notebook to keep track/see if it's getting worse wouldn't be a bad idea.
The worst thing that happens is if somebody doesn't keep track, the oil level gets really low, and the engine grenades. But with enough oil in it, it could last another 70k Km, maybe more.
Note that if somebody doesn't change the oil regularly, the oil can get degraded by heat and contamination, and then the engine will burn oil faster. Fresh oil tends not to be burned as fast.
Cristal clear!
Do u advise keeping it for a while, or selling it asap?
That's a tough question, that depends more on the guy's finances than the car's condition. Trade in prices are high, but so are the prices for a replacement. I'd wait a year, until the situation with the chip-shortage and rental companies buying all the cars calms down. Just check the oil every fill-up, instead of getting a snack (healthier anyway).
Bro, I don't live in the us, in my country, it's a different story, used cars here are super expensive, and the one he has, they usually don't depreciate fast, I guess if he sell it now, he'd probably get the same amount of money he bought it with in the first time😂 As u said, the problem is the price of the replacement, the only good brand new available car i can think of right now is the 1.2 turbocharged Corolla Hatchback, but he gotta add some serious amount of money to get one