2000 Millenium Edition Millenia ?s

[millyowner]

Originally Posted by Saint_

How in the world you are using only 1 qt per 5000mi but i am burning 1 qt per 1500miles? We have same mileage. My intercoolers are bare dry, valve covers have no leak, it is leaking internally to the cylinders.

Mine has recently started leaving drips of oil on the garage floor. Valve covers leak and I think some other seal behind the t-belt cover is leaking.

The first owner (an older lady, so the accelerator was hardly used) put 20k miles a year on it. It was a Texas car, so it saw mostly highway and the engine led a fairly stress-free life. The second owner (my mother actually, so another older lady), did mostly highway as well but only put about 6k miles a year on it. I have records that date back to 2002 from the first owner showing 3k mile oil change intervals and dad did the same. The car had about 90k on it when I got hold of it and it was promptly switched to synthetic. It's used the same amount of oil since I got it.

To be exact, my last oil change done after 10k miles used just under three quarts of make-up oil. I bought two 4-quart jugs of Shell Rotella T6 5w40. Used one jug and one quart from the other jug for the oil change and used the other three for the make-up oil. It seemed to use a little more oil towards the end of that interval. I still haven't sent the oil sample in for analysis yet and I'm already over 5k miles into my current oil change.