Checking the manual didn't provide any answers on what is considered normal oil consumption for the Stelvio 2.0. What is considered normal oil consumption tolerances and what over the counter oil is recommended?
I don't know for the 2.0 L but for the 2.9 L engine after almost 7000 miles the oil consumption has been nothing, zero, nada.....well at least according to the instrument panel...... for comparison in my experience a Porsche Macan S 3.0 L engine consumes around 1 Qt every 6000 miles.....
......and I am assuming that the Stelvio's oil sensor is working ok.....!!!
Checking the manual didn't provide any answers on what is considered normal oil consumption for the Stelvio 2.0. What is considered normal oil consumption tolerances ...?
Are these engines too new for normal to be known? Sounds like from replies, that about 6 oz is needed to fill all the little teeny tiny places places that oil can get to, and then there is virtually no oil "burning." @Kannassee: On the Macan, that seems high for a modern engine - is that typical of Porsche engines (I'm not a Porsche peep; my wife rarely lets me drive her 971).
Are these engines too new for normal to be known? Sounds like from replies, that about 6 oz is needed to fill all the little teeny tiny places places that oil can get to, and then there is virtually no oil "burning."
@Kannassee: On the Macan, that seems high for a modern engine - is that typical of Porsche engines (I'm not a Porsche peep; my wife rarely lets me drive her 971).
I agree with you, that it is very high and it uses thick oil like 5W-40, if you check the Macanforum.com there are some cars that burn more oil and others less oil, the average seems to be around 5k to 6k per quart, I suspect that it has to do, not only with if you drive must of the time in the city or in the highway but also with how the engine was revving the first few thousand miles.....
With the Macan I usually drove the car very gently during the break in period, I think that was not very good since the engine would be revving a lot of time between 1500 and 2000 RPM......
With the Stelvio during the first thousand miles I used the shift pads a lot, and drove the car not only in A, N and D, (maybe even some R) revving the engine up to 4500 rpm or even higher, but of course not abusing the engine.
Actually it is very difficult to abuse that engine...... I almost never had fully pressed the accelerator pedal all the way down......toooo much power......
I have experienced some amount of oil burning in every VAG product I or my family/friends have owned with the exception of my Boxster. That is somewhere around 15 VW products since 2000.
One thing to remember about the Macan..that is an Audi engine, Porsche works it over, but it is still an Audi design and modern Audi/VW engines (in my experience) tend to burn oil.
The Fiat 500 I drove burned about 1/2 quart between oil changes like clockwork for 100,000 miles....Honda Civic about 1 quart.
So far in the Stelvio I have experienced the same as tom1356. About 6oz in the first 3k, nothing since. Currently just over 11k.
Porsche tolerances are higher than most marques, this is by design. From my air cooled 993 to the Cayenne S, oil consumption was ~1 litre per 5K. More so on the 993....but you get the picture.
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