Context: On this forum, and many others, two of the top problems that come up is either oil consumption or oil dilution. Just curious if one is worse than the other.

soo.. are you trying to make a choice or something? I don't understand the relevance.

Not a choice now. But perhaps a choice in the future.

Ok. So when you are faced with such a choice involving real cars, then post a question (and you will be told to avoid both).

Until then lets stop INVENTING reasons to make posts please.

Not necessarily inventing. Just curious if one problem is worse than the other. What I’ve learned here is that many turbo engines are prone to oil dilution. At the same time I’ve seen many posts about oil consumption or cars burning oil as they age.

I think @Kerem gets my point in his response. A case between the fix for a car burning oil and a car diluting oil.

It is invented because it's not real. Nobody needs to know the answer to this question. And if it were real, then I would need to know the whole situation, which in this case doesn't exist.

Any answer to this question as it stands is absurd and useless.

Including Kerem's. No offense Kerem, but you've never owned or worked on a car. Your mechanical advice doesn't really carry much weight.

In that sense, it is 100% invented. Agree.

But hey if you don’t like the question, you don’t like the question.

My answer has to do with what the manufacturers themselves said using two reald world examples. If I was being asked how to fix the problem, I wouldn't answer.
Might as well downvote my own useless and absurd invented answer lol.

It's not that I don't like the question. I just think that without real world context, it doesn't bear much meaning or insight.

Yes agree, the question was vague, so I answered using real world examples...

though I clearly see the lack of point per context

Thanks Kerem for answering the question!

Exactly. I fail to see how this pointless topic helps anybody in the real world.

@mountainmanjoe I’m telling you this forum is starting to backslide. You’re absolutely right, this helps no one at all. 

No option for "neither"? Both are bad, and there are too many variables. Are we talking a little oil dilution vs. heavily burning oil, or the other way around, or what? I'm gonna sit on the sidelines of this one as I'm going to agree with @mountainmanjoe and @USAFdozerpilot yet again and say I don't see how this really helps. {black}:idontknow:

Right. Details matter, and this make believe situation doesn't really illuminate any great wisdom.

Of course neither is an ideal option.

If this were a medical site, maybe!

Both are bad indeed.

Fascinating. So in this case, oil dilution is the lesser of the two evils.

Didn't Honda switch to 0W16 oil to resolve dillution?

Interesting.