Oil Consumption

[jbanh100]

I got my first oil change at the dealership since I had free visits or whatever

I requested to fill with 5w30 since I've read around that it might fix the tick. It does come out occasionally now as opposed to every other day or so. This was on July 27th with around 3.8k miles.

Fast forward to now it is September 30th with 5.8k miles and my oil life is at 26% already. ( est. 900mi remaining )

I noticed after the oil change it decreased from 100% down to about 85% relatively quickly.

Is my car consuming oil at a faster rate? I do drive the car spiritedly, but I don't WOT every second of every day. It is my daily driver. If it matters I probably do a pull 3 times a week. I am also not PP1. Could it be that the dealer filled up with 8 quarts as opposed to 10 even though I told service to make sure to input 10 quarts. I need to know now because I do plan on going boost and I want to fix some problems now or take into consideration before I make such a big jump.

My car is tuned right now on E85 if that factors in. I'm not a mechanic or anything so I don't know if this is a normal rate or something's actually wrong. Any insight is great.

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[Andy13186]

Ceratec fixes the tick. Check your oil level, pull the dipstick out wipe it off and put it back in with the hash marks facing the engine, then pull it out and see if its near the top hole or in the hash marks. If its low add oil.


Then id get the 2nd free change request full synthetic and pay extra if necessary for it, and add 2 bottles of ceratec to the 10 qts of new full synthetic oil.

The oil monitor may go down faster during the first 5k miles but idk.

Also they may have forgot to reset the oil life monitor?

I do like 10 7500 rpm pulls a day and burn about 1.5 qts in 5k miles, maybe 2 qts. I add 10 qts during the change and 2 bottles of ceratec though. My catch can catches about 4-5 oz during that time.

 

[jbanh100]

Ceratec fixes the tick. Check your oil level, pull the dipstick out wipe it off and put it back in with the hash marks facing the engine, then pull it out and see if its near the top hole or in the hash marks. If its low add oil.


Then id get the 2nd free change request full synthetic and pay extra if necessary for it, and add 2 bottles of ceratec to the 10 qts of new full synthetic oil.

The oil monitor may go down faster during the first 5k miles but idk.

Also they may have forgot to reset the oil life monitor?

I do like 10 7500 rpm pulls a day and burn about 1.5 qts in 5k miles, maybe 2 qts. I add 10 qts during the change and 2 bottles of ceratec though. My catch can catches about 4-5 oz during that time.

That would mean in your 5k miles your reading should be 80% correct? since using 2qts of 10qts is 20% usage. I've driven 2k miles in a 2 month period not going hard on the car and I went from 100% to 26%, that can't be right. I believe they did reset the oil life monitor because after service I checked and it was at 100%. I also don't know why the first 5k miles would make the oil life monitor go down so quickly. Dangers of over consumption of oil? The car runs fine it's just I've never seen oil life go down in 2k miles like that.

 

[Qcman17]

That would mean in your 5k miles your reading should be 80% correct? since using 2qts of 10qts is 20% usage.

I'm confused reading this thread. Are we talking about oil life or oil consumption which is what the title says? Oil consumption would be oil no longer in the engine say down a quart or 2. If the dealer shorted the car 2 quarts pulling the dipstick would show likely nothing or nearly nothing on the dipstick. Oil Life is how long it will last in usage not whether its missing any?

Or am I misunderstanding the conversation here? It just seems like consumption of oil is being confused with oil life to me when I read this post.

 

[jbanh100]

I'm confused reading this thread. Are we talking about oil life or oil consumption which is what the title says? Oil consumption would be oil no longer in the engine say down a quart or 2. If the dealer shorted the car 2 quarts pulling the dipstick would show likely nothing or nearly nothing on the dipstick. Oil Life is how long it will last in usage not whether its missing any?

Or am I misunderstanding the conversation here? It just seems like consumption of oil is being confused with oil life to me when I read this post.

Is oil life correlated to consumption? I'm just asking about my oil life meter in the physical car itself going down relatively quickly from what I'm used to. Like I mentioned above it's already at 26% from 100% when I last service on July 27th at 3.8k miles, now it's at 5.8k miles. Sorry for being confusing I was typing the thread on my phone and I was all over the place. I mentioned asking service to make sure to fill up with 5w30 @ 10 quarts. 7.4 quarts being used in a time span like that sure seems to be a lot of oil. Surely, I am probably misunderstanding something here. THANKS!

 

[Andy13186]

That would mean in your 5k miles your reading should be 80% correct? since using 2qts of 10qts is 20% usage. I've driven 2k miles in a 2 month period not going hard on the car and I went from 100% to 26%, that can't be right. I believe they did reset the oil life monitor because after service I checked and it was at 100%. I also don't know why the first 5k miles would make the oil life monitor go down so quickly. Dangers of over consumption of oil? The car runs fine it's just I've never seen oil life go down in 2k miles like that.

No, in 5k miles mine would read like 20% or less maybe but I am not 100% sure

 

[Qcman17]

Is oil life correlated to consumption? I'm just asking about my oil life meter in the physical car itself going down relatively quickly from what I'm used to. Like I mentioned above it's already at 26% from 100% when I last service on July 27th at 3.8k miles, now it's at 5.8k miles. Sorry for being confusing I was typing the thread on my phone and I was all over the place. I mentioned asking service to make sure to fill up with 5w30 @ 10 quarts. 7.4 quarts being used in a time span like that sure seems to be a lot of oil. Surely, I am probably misunderstanding something here. THANKS!

No problem man it just had me as confused as heck lol. What set me to wondering was you mentioned you wondered if the dealer shorted you 2 quarts to which I thought thats easy to check............. By pulling the dipstick. Wait you aren't wondering if the car used 7.4 quarts of oil or are you just kidding about that LOL? But no oil life is not correlated to oil consumption.

Have you checked the oil level recently in the car? I do mine every 2 weeks at the most in the same spot in the driveway when the engine is cold. I just keep getting the feeling you are confusing oil life with the amount of oil left in the engine...... My apologies if I'm out in left field ; )

 

[jbanh100]

No problem man it just had me as confused as heck lol. What set me to wondering was you mentioned you wondered if the dealer shorted you 2 quarts to which I thought thats easy to check............. By pulling the dipstick. Wait you aren't wondering if the car used 7.4 quarts of oil or are you just kidding about that LOL? But no oil life is not correlated to oil consumption.

Have you checked the oil level recently in the car? I do mine every 2 weeks at the most in the same spot in the driveway when the engine is cold. I just keep getting the feeling you are confusing oil life with the amount of oil left in the engine...... My apologies if I'm out in left field ; )

Yes I was kidding about that. So when oil life reaches 0% does that mean my engine oil is just no longer good or what exactly? What causes needing to frequently go get oil changes?

 

[Qcman17]

Yes I was kidding about that. So when oil life reaches 0% does that mean my engine oil is just no longer good or what exactly? What causes needing to frequently go get oil changes?

Ha okay thx. Yes it would mean its no longer good enough to keep using. But 2000 miles is way off on the low side for that. My car is still on the factory fill and I'm about 60% oil life remaining with around 3000 miles so far. So it could let me go close to 10000 miles at that rate though I never would do that out of my own preference.

It seems more likely to me that the oil life wasn't reset and yet you said you saw that it was at 100% when you started again which is weird. Time can also be a factor in it getting down even when mileage is low like say if the oil hadn't been changed in a year it would likely drop right down too. But that doesn't fit with your situation either..... I'm at a loss to figure it out but something isn't right that's for sure. I can't see how you drive affecting it like that as all of us GT owners bang on the cars without this ever cropping up.

 

[GT Pony]

Is oil life correlated to consumption?

No

I'm just asking about my oil life meter in the physical car itself going down relatively quickly from what I'm used to. Like I mentioned above it's already at 26% from 100% when I last service on July 27th at 3.8k miles, now it's at 5.8k miles. Sorry for being confusing I was typing the thread on my phone and I was all over the place. I mentioned asking service to make sure to fill up with 5w30 @ 10 quarts. 7.4 quarts being used in a time span like that sure seems to be a lot of oil. Surely, I am probably misunderstanding something here. THANKS!

Use the engine oil dipstick to determine the oil level, and if it changes then the engine is using oil. I check my oil level when the engine is cold and always with it parked on level ground in the same spot every time (my garage in this case). My GT uses oil at the rate of about 1 quart every 5,000 miles.

The OLM is telling you how much "life" is left in the oil, but the Ford OLM system is deceiving because it will count down fron 100% to 0% at at the rate of 2% a week even if the car is just sitting and never ran. So if the car sat for 2 weeks without ever being driven the OLM would go down 4%.

 

[jbanh100]

No



Use the engine oil dipstick to determine the oil level, and if it changes then the engine is using oil. I check my oil level when the engine is cold and always with it parked on level ground in the same spot every time (my garage in this case). My GT uses oil at the rate of about 1 quart every 5,000 miles.

The OLM is telling you how much "life" is left in the oil, but the Ford OLM system is deceiving because it will count down fron 100% to 0% at at the rate of 2% a week even if the car is just sitting and never ran. So if the car sat for 2 weeks without ever being driven the OLM would go down 4%.

Okay that makes sense. How did you determine/estimate your oil usage rate? Thanks for the OLM insight I did not know that it will countdown even when the car is not driven in. So when would it be appropriate to actually change out your oil? Thanks a lot!

 

[Andy13186]

Okay that makes sense. How did you determine/estimate your oil usage rate? Thanks for the OLM insight I did not know that it will countdown even when the car is not driven in. So when would it be appropriate to actually change out your oil? Thanks a lot!

Check the level then add oil until its full again then look at how much you added..

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