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Originally Posted by Rmasters3
Frequent oil changes and checks of oil level are the only real answer.
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Not in this case, many many of owners with these engines change their oil every 3k miles and check it constantly, and I've still heard/read 100's of posts of these 3.2L dohc engines running low on oil at the flip of a switch, sometimes in less then 200-300 miles; it IS a defect in the engine design. Not all are effected though. And some that are blowing rods even have a full sump, it's just terrible, I really feel for these owners.
I think it's plain idiotic that an engine can run dangerously low on a 100-200 mile run when you JUST changed the oil not even say 1k miles ago, and checked it before you left town.
I've got the 3.2L sohc and it does a lot of short trips, well 25-30 miles on a daily drive and then will see well over a 300-500 mile drive on any given weekend sometimes at the 2k mile mark of having changed the oil, and mine will not have barely used up 1/8qt by the time I return home. And my engine now has 156k miles.
Granted other 3.2L SOHC engines use up to 1-2qt's IN a 3k mile timeframe, but NOT on one 200-300 mile trip.
Again, I don't feel it's owners neglect on MANY of these cases, some it may be, but not the majority as it's even happening to some who have JUST changed the oil and/or people who literally have a full sump at the time that it happens.