How you define ran dry, ie when your dip stick is totally dry and oil pressure light came on.
Even one single instance of letting the engine ran dry can be bad for the engine. This is dependent whether ever let the engine run dry. In many case if car use oil can still last 200k. Usually around 60k mi-95 k miles will start using oil it is dependent manufacturing tolerance, driving habits, oil change frequency. The light comes on because there is no oil pressure to lubricate the engine and it will blow up! Any time you see the oil light on, you are doing extreme wear and damage to the motor. The oil light does NOT tell you the level of oil in the engine.
Turn the engine off if the oil light is on. Never let the oil light come on and do not drive the car with the oil light on. If you have time and watch the oil, you may get it improved by doing the above. In your case 95,000 miles so if you need it fixed right NOW, you are going to have to replace the rings. Remember that this did not happen over night. This will help the piston rings do their job a little easier too. Also replace the PCV valve which is easy to do as it is on the back of the valve cover. stery-oil/ - to every oil change of 2 to 3 thousand miles it would help clean up the inside of the engine faster. If you add something like a ½ quart of Marvels Mystery Oil. If you do this you may get lucky and over a long time reduce the build up in the oil control rings and improve your oil consumption. Change your oil often with a high detergent motor oil to reduce the chance of sludge and carbon build up, like mobil 1. The biggest thing here is the oil rings getting plugged with sludge and carbon deposits. You can watch this video that explains the problem: Ĭheck YouTube for other videos. not good! Fill us in on your story and maybe we can help! the oil light came on for us shortly after we took delivery which is where the engine is 2-2.5 quarts low at that time. He can actually go between oil changes now without me having to top it off. Fast forward to today where he's at 90k miles & then some, and the burning rate has actually dropped off significantly to one quart every 2500 - 3000 miles.
#2009 pontiac vibe 2.4 full#
First thing was to change out "whatever oil the dealer put in there" with Mobil 1 full synthetic. His engine was consuming exactly what I described above and when I discovered our LUSH of a car, I starting taking precautions to remedy the problem. I swear the prior owner NEVER changed the oil at all as this poor Vibe was majorly abused. My son's 2009 Vibe GT (2.4l, automatic) was purchased used at just under 36k miles back in March 2011(lease turn in).
#2009 pontiac vibe 2.4 drivers#
99% of us drivers would tend to disagree with that fact. How thirsty is the engine? Toyota specs say that adding one quart of oil per 1500 miles is not excessive and within normal parameters. NO Need to know a bit of the history on the car if you have it.
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