Hello all,
Long time lurker here. Excellent website.
I have an unusual question. Over the past few months, my '95 Toyota Corolla with 220k miles has had rather unusual oil level behavior.
Since I switched from having the local place do my oil changes with Kendall oil and filters to Valvoline MaxLife high mileage and Toyota oil filters myself, my oil level plunged to nothing registering on the dipstick twice across two 3,000 mile OCIs.
Convinced the engine was (rather suddenly) burning it, I changed my oil at the local shop again to isolate all variables (with their 5W30 high mileage oil). Yesterday, I passed 2,000 miles and to my surprise, the oil level hasn't moved at all.
I am doing something wrong. Surely Toyota doesn't sell subpar oil filters.
The only change between then and now is I changed the 30,000 mile old PCV valve, surely that's not the cause of such a large change.
Long time lurker here. Excellent website.
I have an unusual question. Over the past few months, my '95 Toyota Corolla with 220k miles has had rather unusual oil level behavior.
Since I switched from having the local place do my oil changes with Kendall oil and filters to Valvoline MaxLife high mileage and Toyota oil filters myself, my oil level plunged to nothing registering on the dipstick twice across two 3,000 mile OCIs.
Convinced the engine was (rather suddenly) burning it, I changed my oil at the local shop again to isolate all variables (with their 5W30 high mileage oil). Yesterday, I passed 2,000 miles and to my surprise, the oil level hasn't moved at all.
I am doing something wrong. Surely Toyota doesn't sell subpar oil filters.
The only change between then and now is I changed the 30,000 mile old PCV valve, surely that's not the cause of such a large change.