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donron - 19 Mar 2004 19:34 GMT

Hi,

How much oil will a healthy 1.6 Xantia engine consume? What is normal?

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Maarten Deen - 04 Apr 2004 17:54 GMT

donron <donron@justmail.de> wrote in news:c3feg3$26sbjq$1@ID-
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> Hi,
>
> How much oil will a healthy 1.6 Xantia engine consume? What is normal?

My idea of a perfectly healty engine is no oil consumption, at least not
noticable during the normal serviceinterval (10.000 km). Usually car
manufacturers say anyting up to 1 liter per 1.000 km is acceptable.
I would say that anything more than 1 liter per 5.000 km is an indication
of some kind. Either a 'sporty' drivingstyle or a worn engine.

I once had a consumtion of 1 liter per 500 km in the Citroen 1.8 8v engine.
This is still acceptable if you want to spend the money on the oil as the
engine did not smoke or run any worse. Problem was eventually fixed by
fitting new worn valverubbers.

Maarten

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donron - 11 Apr 2004 12:53 GMT

Maarten Deen schrieb:

> donron <donron@justmail.de> wrote in news:c3feg3$26sbjq$1@ID-
> 51003.news.uni-berlin.de:
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> engine did not smoke or run any worse. Problem was eventually fixed by
> fitting new worn valverubbers.

Thanks! Meanwhile Citroen had to change the engine...

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