Fiesta Oil Usage
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Fiesta Oil Usage
by willobrien on Wed Jul 23, 2003 4:38 pm
My Fiesta seems to use up quite a bit of oil. On a 200 mile run it can drop from the MAX to the MIN mark and I have to regularly make sure it's topped up with town driving too.
Is this kind of oil consumption typical of Fiestas or is it a sign that I'm leaking/burning it somewhere?
Cheers for any help!
Will.
Is this kind of oil consumption typical of Fiestas or is it a sign that I'm leaking/burning it somewhere?
Cheers for any help!
Will.
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by Stoned on Wed Jul 23, 2003 5:20 pm
What sort is it?
My mum's 1.0L engine burns almost as much oil as petrol. However my old 1.6s CVH engine also had this for a while
Turned out some rubber seals somewhere inside had perished so the oil was being burnt. You could tell cos there was blue smoke when starting up.
Anyhow my engineer replaced those rubber things for the cost of £20 and it paid for itself in a month. Oil hardly went down at all after that and no blue smoke either. Bargain.
My mum's 1.0L engine burns almost as much oil as petrol. However my old 1.6s CVH engine also had this for a while
Turned out some rubber seals somewhere inside had perished so the oil was being burnt. You could tell cos there was blue smoke when starting up.
Anyhow my engineer replaced those rubber things for the cost of £20 and it paid for itself in a month. Oil hardly went down at all after that and no blue smoke either. Bargain.
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by MikeyXR2i on Wed Jul 23, 2003 5:30 pm
Stoned :What sort is it?
My mum's 1.0L engine burns almost as much oil as petrol. However my old 1.6s CVH engine also had this for a while
Turned out some rubber seals somewhere inside had perished so the oil was being burnt. You could tell cos there was blue smoke when starting up.
Anyhow my engineer replaced those rubber things for the cost of £20 and it paid for itself in a month. Oil hardly went down at all after that and no blue smoke either. Bargain.
Stoned, you're talking about Valve stem oil seals.
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by bowdenj on Thu Jul 24, 2003 10:46 am
snake :mk3 classis? 1.1, engine rebuild time probably unless its obviously stem seals(unlikely) or u gotta leak..
1.1's usually suffer from worn rings.
Easiest and cheapest is to replace with a known decent engine
John
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by HaggisTurbo on Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:13 am
bowdenj :
1.1's usually suffer from worn rings.
ooooooo errrr engine has been shagged a lot then?
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