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Re: Oil burning
The plot thickens. I just got a call from the dealer and he says he had his mechanic (an indepent mechanic but one with whom he does a lot of business) did a wet/dry compression test and it shows no oil burning at all - engine compression is fine. He is going to give me the write-up from that mechanic.
Now the facts that I know are that I changed the oil myself last Sunday and the next day it was about 0.4 quarts lower and the next day about 0.5 quarts lower. Saw this with my own eyes. Could I be wrong? My mechanic also identified an oil leak in the valve cover gasket (the dealer replaced this) but my mechanic insisted there is no way that amount of oil could be leaking from that source.
I think to be safe I should change the oil tonight to get rid of any possible additives or heavier oil (the dealer claims he used 10W40 and no additives) and then have another compression test done. But this dealer knows I've had a mechanic look at it, and knows I will bring it back to the guy. So I wonder if there's possibly some trick I'm missing?
The whole thing is weird.
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