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Aug 10, 2006 | 03:30 PM

niqtorious

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From: WISCONSIN

am i burning oil?

i just got an oil change like a month ago and today i noticed i was really low on oil... do you think im burning oil? i dont smell it or anything and theres no leaks but could it be possible?

or did i just get screwed by the oil change place?

Aug 10, 2006 | 04:34 PM

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Do you notice any black spots underneath your car? If so, you're probably leaking oil.

Aug 10, 2006 | 05:33 PM

v6_accord_jerz

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If you were burning oil i believe you'd see blueish smoke come out ur exhaust....i know white smoke is coolant.....you probably just gotta leak somewhere

Aug 10, 2006 | 09:15 PM

niqtorious

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If you were burning oil i believe you'd see blueish smoke come out ur exhaust....i know white smoke is coolant.....you probably just gotta leak somewhere

theres nothing on the driveway tho

Aug 10, 2006 | 11:02 PM

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yeah/miles of car? condition? when did you check it? were you on a flat surface? if you check your oil immediately after turning the car off you'll get a faulty reading because the oil has to drip back down.

Aug 11, 2006 | 11:05 AM

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You could be burning oil and the converter could be stopping most of the smoke.

Maybe when the oil was changed the .5 quart that it takes to fill the oil filter wasn't accounted for. This is usually the case at most quick lube places.

Aug 11, 2006 | 11:11 AM

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why don't you just fill up the oil to the level you need and see if it changes afterwards?

Aug 11, 2006 | 11:17 AM

totalimmortal

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If your car is VTEC, VTEC acutaion burns oil. If you find yourself in the upper RPM's a lot, you'll burn a bit of oil. I know since I got my test pipe, I blow a smidge of bule smoke at the top of gears.

Aug 11, 2006 | 12:06 PM

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when i drove behind my gsr after i first got it, i saw a small puff of black smoke every time my friend hit vtec. i assume that's just cuz the previous owner never wound it up tho.

Aug 11, 2006 | 01:12 PM

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when i drove behind my gsr after i first got it, i saw a small puff of black smoke every time my friend hit vtec. i assume that's just cuz the previous owner never wound it up tho.

That's true. Bringing it to redline every so often burns the carbon of the valvetrain.