Toyota BZ Touring 4AGE blacktop - low on oil??

[FANGIN]

I put oil in ours every time we take it out of town on a long trip.

I do the same thing, and then check it after i get back.

Seems that if you drive the car under any decent amount of load they start loosing oil, if you nana foot it around town and dont carry passengers it uses way lessm but wheres the fun in that.
As already stated the rings aren't the best = oil usage.

[B1NZ]

They don't go through oil if you don't rev it above ~4.5k rpm (ie drive it like "normal" car).

Haha, have you tried driving one of those under 4.5KRPM? It wouldn't move it's own mass

My old one used truckloads of oil, when it was dissasembled the oil control rings were buggered, compression rings were fine and showed up perfect on a compression tester, still went well, just ate oil

[sergei]

They don't go through oil if you don't rev it above ~4.5k rpm (ie drive it like "normal" car).

Haha, have you tried driving one of those under 4.5KRPM? It wouldn't move it's own mass

My old one used truckloads of oil, when it was dissasembled the oil control rings were buggered, compression rings were fine and showed up perfect on a compression tester, still went well, just ate oil

Well I had/have one for over 9years tell me about it. you can drive it under 4.5k if you sit in traffic .

[1I1]

They don't go through oil if you don't rev it above ~4.5k rpm (ie drive it like "normal" car).

Haha, have you tried driving one of those under 4.5KRPM? It wouldn't move it's own mass

My old one used truckloads of oil, when it was dissasembled the oil control rings were buggered, compression rings were fine and showed up perfect on a compression tester, still went well, just ate oil

Well I had/have one for over 9years tell me about it. you can drive it under 4.5k if you sit in traffic .

Drove mine to work today for a change and it only went over 5k a couple of times including country driving

Oh but it was drive like a nana day

[allencr]

The oil light only flashed on once as I braked heavily, so it must definitely have been getting low. I had no idea they went through this much oil!
Will keep an eye on it.

The oil level should be checked EVERY TIME it needs fuel/petrol/gasoline, all engines use oil to run just like petrol, just not as much.


I'd still like to know whether it needed 2 or 3L, since 1 didn't register on the stick.