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Good question.

 

My 09 has 5,000 miles on current oil change. Oil level Almost off the dipstick. I guess 1 1/2 qts low. Mobil 1 every 5,000 miles. 09 has 50,000 on it.

 

I dang sure do not want another 1 1/2 gt per 3000 miles ok consumption per GM bs. Never had such oil consumption on any ride. Even my 90 sub 350 ci @ 356,000 miles only burns about 1/2 qt in 3,000 and most of that is valve stem burning at start up...

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Good question.

 

My 09 has 5,000 miles on current oil change. Oil level Almost off the dipstick. I guess 1 1/2 qts low. Mobil 1 every 5,000 miles. 09 has 50,000 on it.

 

I dang sure do not want another 1 1/2 gt per 3000 miles ok consumption per GM bs. Never had such oil consumption on any ride. Even my 90 sub 350 ci @ 356,000 miles only burns about 1/2 qt in 3,000 and most of that is valve stem burning at start up...

Amen. My 99 wouldn't burn 1/2 quart at 6-7500 miles between changes. Old Nissan truck over 200,000 and no oil burning. Yet, since AFM jokes came out, GM changed their tune about what was acceptable, as you mentioned. I call BS as well. If this new truck does that, I'm not gonna be as forgiving as I was with the Yukon and have it de-activated, I'd likely be dumping the truck for one that doesn't burn that much oil. Too many choices out there to put up with that. Any other full-sizers have oil burning issues with AFM?

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Like the OP mentioned, the '14s are probably to low of miles to tell. I talked to service today. 1 quart loss every 2000 -3000 miles is acceptable to them. This is with no hard driving, towing etc. with a lot of revs over 3,000.

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I guess we can always hope for the best. Do other manufacturers have this kind of acceptability of oil consumption on their vehicles? Maybe these new EcoTec3 engines won't burn oil, but GM wants to CYA for now. Thing is, if it burns that much oil, it's not very "ECO" friendly, is it?

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Like the OP mentioned, the '14s are probably to low of miles to tell. I talked to service today. 1 quart loss every 2000 -3000 miles is acceptable to them. This is with no hard driving, towing etc. with a lot of revs over 3,000.

 

So if an engine doesn't burn any oil between a 5,000 mile oci is that considered not normal to GM? :lol:

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Been doing a little research and Fords acceptable oil consumption is 1qt per 1000 miles. Most auto manufacturers have an acceptance rate of 1qt every 1000-2000 miles.

 

Does this mean we've been spoiled all these years or is it simply a matter of people actually knowing this information in this day and age? Remember the old guys used to always say a quart between changes and that was a 3000 miles change? Now, we may burn a quart in that span, but want to raise hell because we're stretching the interval to 5, 7, even 10k miles.



Been doing a little research and from what I can find, Ford's acceptable oil consumption is 1qt per 1000 miles. Most auto manufacturers have an acceptance rate of 1qt every 1000-2000 miles.

 

Does this mean we've been spoiled all these years or is it simply a matter of people actually knowing this information in this day and age? Remember the old guys used to always say a quart between changes and that was a 3000 miles change? Now, we may burn a quart in that span, but want to raise hell because we're stretching the interval to 5, 7, even 10k miles.

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I'm at 2k and it hasn't dropped on the dipstick yet. With the weight if oil it's running I wouldn't doubt it will burn through oil faster then the older ones. Running the thinner oil is helping the gas mpg, that's the price I'll pay to get 18 mpg cty/hwy combined.

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Been doing a little research and Fords acceptable oil consumption is 1qt per 1000 miles. Most auto manufacturers have an acceptance rate of 1qt every 1000-2000 miles.

 

Does this mean we've been spoiled all these years or is it simply a matter of people actually knowing this information in this day and age? Remember the old guys used to always say a quart between changes and that was a 3000 miles change? Now, we may burn a quart in that span, but want to raise hell because we're stretching the interval to 5, 7, even 10k miles.

Been doing a little research and from what I can find, Ford's acceptable oil consumption is 1qt per 1000 miles. Most auto manufacturers have an acceptance rate of 1qt every 1000-2000 miles.

 

Does this mean we've been spoiled all these years or is it simply a matter of people actually knowing this information in this day and age? Remember the old guys used to always say a quart between changes and that was a 3000 miles change? Now, we may burn a quart in that span, but want to raise hell because we're stretching the interval to 5, 7, even 10k miles.

Don't know which trucks ur talkin about. I owned an 84 3/4 ton, dad owned a pile of old Chevys. Never burnt any oil, the old 305's and 350's wouldn't burn any oil until like 200k lol...if they did it was just abuse.

 

This is 2013, if they can figure out how to get a reliable 400hp out of a small block Chevy from factory, have all kinds of crazy technology built into these trucks but they can't figure out how to stop burning oil?? Are you kidding me???

 

I don't care what anybody says, I would never ever spend cash on something that burns oil. The whole "gm says it's acceptable" thing is a wad of BS. Doesn't take a brainiac to figure out somebody is getting swindled and it sure isn't GM!! It's the poor sucker paying 50k for a brand new nice looking beauty lookin Chevy but oh jeez it burns oil LOL....oh but it's ok...it's acceptable

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