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Originally posted by JSmith:
There's other things as well, such as the oil may not start to get consumed until it gets to, say, 3,000 miles, after that some of the oil's physical properties start to degrade due to thermal breakdown and contamination from combustion by-products. As the oil degrades it becomes more volitile or more likely to evaporate. So, in most cases the engine isn't burning the oil, the oil is just evaproating.
So to combat this try either changing the oil more often, or switch brands.
I was almost 600 miles over my oil change miles...  That could absoloutly be the reason why it was low. I use penzoil(sp), which sucks, but am going to switch to valvoline high mileage oil. I think if it is burning oil, which I know it is not, the valvoline oil should not hurt but only make it even better. Thanks for informing me on the overview on oil!!!  - JOE
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