03' Nissan Maxima eating oil

I noticed there was a posting in here before about an 03' Maxima 6spd
eating oil - well I'm at 53K and mine is doing the same thing. I don't
even think I'm barely getting over 1000 miles for a quart of oil
because I just had synthetic put in it 3K miles ago and I'm sure he put
in 5 quarts and I barely have any now.

Any ideas? I'll prob. take it to the dealer in the morning - I really
don't want to have to stop and put oil in it every so many miles. Hell
to me it's still brand new.

Thx,

Laurie

ll29 (AT) carolina (DOT) rr.com wrote:

I noticed there was a posting in here before about an 03' Maxima 6spd
eating oil - well I'm at 53K and mine is doing the same thing. I don't
even think I'm barely getting over 1000 miles for a quart of oil
because I just had synthetic put in it 3K miles ago and I'm sure he put
in 5 quarts and I barely have any now.

Any ideas? I'll prob. take it to the dealer in the morning - I really
don't want to have to stop and put oil in it every so many miles. Hell
to me it's still brand new.

Thx,

Laurie

Anything over 900miles/qt is considered normal.

Some manufacturers say that oil consumption is normal and they even give
figures as the one you mention. In my opinion, that is the way to
justify poor design or manufacturing practices and poor vehicle quality.
It is indeed normal for the oil level to drop, but it should be more
in the range of 1/2 to 1 qt per oil change.

Some time ago, VW came out with this kind of crap and something like 10
years later, they were paying to settle a class action lawsuit.

JimV wrote:

ll29 (AT) carolina (DOT) rr.com wrote:

I noticed there was a posting in here before about an 03' Maxima 6spd
eating oil - well I'm at 53K and mine is doing the same thing. I don't
even think I'm barely getting over 1000 miles for a quart of oil
because I just had synthetic put in it 3K miles ago and I'm sure he put
in 5 quarts and I barely have any now.

Any ideas? I'll prob. take it to the dealer in the morning - I really
don't want to have to stop and put oil in it every so many miles. Hell
to me it's still brand new.

Thx,

Laurie

Anything over 900miles/qt is considered normal.

AS wrote:

Some manufacturers say that oil consumption is normal and they even give
figures as the one you mention. In my opinion, that is the way to
justify poor design or manufacturing practices and poor vehicle quality.
It is indeed normal for the oil level to drop, but it should be more in
the range of 1/2 to 1 qt per oil change.

Some time ago, VW came out with this kind of crap and something like 10
years later, they were paying to settle a class action lawsuit.

JimV wrote:

ll29 (AT) carolina (DOT) rr.com wrote:

I noticed there was a posting in here before about an 03' Maxima 6spd
eating oil - well I'm at 53K and mine is doing the same thing. I don't
even think I'm barely getting over 1000 miles for a quart of oil
because I just had synthetic put in it 3K miles ago and I'm sure he put
in 5 quarts and I barely have any now.

Any ideas? I'll prob. take it to the dealer in the morning - I really
don't want to have to stop and put oil in it every so many miles. Hell
to me it's still brand new.

Thx,

Laurie

Anything over 900miles/qt is considered normal.
That is a possibility. We have to keep in mind, though, that today's

engines are WAY more sophisticated and capable than yesterday's. Just
think, a 3.5 liter V6 pushing out 300 HP. That was freaking un-heard of
from even a 5.0 liter V8 back in the day. Because these engines work
much harder, get hotter, are built to tighter tolerances, and a host of
other reasons, a little more oil consumption may be a small, even
miniscule trade-off for the incredible bang for the buck we're getting
with today's motor. They do all this AND get better feul economy AND
burn with cleaner emissions. Gotta luv it.

1 quart every 1000 miles? I'll live with that.


By the way, considering 1129's problem, the oil consumption may be OK
since its about 1 qt every 1000 miles. Bear in mind that synthetic tends
to burn off or leak out quicker than dyno oil, so you'd expect synthetic
oil to go down faster if your dyno oil was going down a bit already.

CD

Cleaner emissions? (1 quart every 1000 miles)
"Codifus" <codifus (AT) optonline (DOT) net> wrote

AS wrote:
Some manufacturers say that oil consumption is normal and they even give
figures as the one you mention. In my opinion, that is the way to
justify poor design or manufacturing practices and poor vehicle quality.
It is indeed normal for the oil level to drop, but it should be more in
the range of 1/2 to 1 qt per oil change.

Some time ago, VW came out with this kind of crap and something like 10
years later, they were paying to settle a class action lawsuit.

JimV wrote:

ll29 (AT) carolina (DOT) rr.com wrote:

I noticed there was a posting in here before about an 03' Maxima 6spd
eating oil - well I'm at 53K and mine is doing the same thing. I don't
even think I'm barely getting over 1000 miles for a quart of oil
because I just had synthetic put in it 3K miles ago and I'm sure he put
in 5 quarts and I barely have any now.

Any ideas? I'll prob. take it to the dealer in the morning - I really
don't want to have to stop and put oil in it every so many miles. Hell
to me it's still brand new.

Thx,

Laurie

Anything over 900miles/qt is considered normal.
That is a possibility. We have to keep in mind, though, that today's
engines are WAY more sophisticated and capable than yesterday's. Just
think, a 3.5 liter V6 pushing out 300 HP. That was freaking un-heard of
from even a 5.0 liter V8 back in the day. Because these engines work much
harder, get hotter, are built to tighter tolerances, and a host of other
reasons, a little more oil consumption may be a small, even miniscule
trade-off for the incredible bang for the buck we're getting with today's
motor. They do all this AND get better feul economy AND burn with cleaner
emissions. Gotta luv it.

1 quart every 1000 miles? I'll live with that.


By the way, considering 1129's problem, the oil consumption may be OK
since its about 1 qt every 1000 miles. Bear in mind that synthetic tends
to burn off or leak out quicker than dyno oil, so you'd expect synthetic
oil to go down faster if your dyno oil was going down a bit already.

CD

Think were all that oil is going... think catalytic converter?

rppb wrote:

Cleaner emissions? (1 quart every 1000 miles)
"Codifus" <codifus (AT) optonline (DOT) net> wrote in message
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AS wrote:

Some manufacturers say that oil consumption is normal and they even give
figures as the one you mention. In my opinion, that is the way to
justify poor design or manufacturing practices and poor vehicle quality.
It is indeed normal for the oil level to drop, but it should be more in
the range of 1/2 to 1 qt per oil change.

Some time ago, VW came out with this kind of crap and something like 10
years later, they were paying to settle a class action lawsuit.

JimV wrote:


ll29 (AT) carolina (DOT) rr.com wrote:


I noticed there was a posting in here before about an 03' Maxima 6spd
eating oil - well I'm at 53K and mine is doing the same thing. I don't
even think I'm barely getting over 1000 miles for a quart of oil
because I just had synthetic put in it 3K miles ago and I'm sure he put
in 5 quarts and I barely have any now.

Any ideas? I'll prob. take it to the dealer in the morning - I really
don't want to have to stop and put oil in it every so many miles. Hell
to me it's still brand new.

Thx,

Laurie


Anything over 900miles/qt is considered normal.

That is a possibility. We have to keep in mind, though, that today's
engines are WAY more sophisticated and capable than yesterday's. Just
think, a 3.5 liter V6 pushing out 300 HP. That was freaking un-heard of
from even a 5.0 liter V8 back in the day. Because these engines work much
harder, get hotter, are built to tighter tolerances, and a host of other
reasons, a little more oil consumption may be a small, even miniscule
trade-off for the incredible bang for the buck we're getting with today's
motor. They do all this AND get better feul economy AND burn with cleaner
emissions. Gotta luv it.

1 quart every 1000 miles? I'll live with that.


By the way, considering 1129's problem, the oil consumption may be OK
since its about 1 qt every 1000 miles. Bear in mind that synthetic tends
to burn off or leak out quicker than dyno oil, so you'd expect synthetic
oil to go down faster if your dyno oil was going down a bit already.

CD

If these newer engines are built to tighter tolerances they should use LESS
oil!!!

gen1 wrote:

If these newer engines are built to tighter tolerances they should use LESS
oil!!!

In general that's true, but there are tolerances in every manufacturing
operation. It doesn't take much to consume a qt every 1K miles. It
doesn't effect the life of the engine and the oil is burned in the
converter. You can complain to Nissan, but you won't get very far.

The oil will clog the converter.

JimV wrote:

gen1 wrote:

If these newer engines are built to tighter tolerances they should use
LESS
oil!!!


In general that's true, but there are tolerances in every manufacturing
operation. It doesn't take much to consume a qt every 1K miles. It
doesn't effect the life of the engine and the oil is burned in the
converter. You can complain to Nissan, but you won't get very far.

AS wrote:

The oil will clog the converter.

JimV wrote:

gen1 wrote:

If these newer engines are built to tighter tolerances they should
use LESS
oil!!!


In general that's true, but there are tolerances in every
manufacturing operation. It doesn't take much to consume a qt every 1K
miles. It doesn't effect the life of the engine and the oil is burned
in the converter. You can complain to Nissan, but you won't get very far.

Not if it's working correctly, it will be burned. We're talking about a
very small amount of oil over a long time.