{"id":78385,"date":"2021-09-30T13:45:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=78385"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T20:45:35","slug":"burning-a-quart-of-oil-every-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2021\/09\/burning-a-quart-of-oil-every-week","title":{"rendered":"Burning a quart of oil every week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My wife&#8217;s car is using around 1ltr engine oil every 7 to 10 days. It is a Hyundai ix20 1.4 petrol.<br \/>Getting a little exhaust smoke on startup<br \/>Or when pulling away after sitting in traffic for a while.<br \/>Was thinking bad valve stem oil seals ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sounds about right if you don&#8217;t see an external leak. I would look where it parks and see if there isn&#8217;t a huge puddle. 1 ltr is a lot to loose in 7 &#8211; 10 days. Might even be a hole in a piston but would think the engine would have a miss on at least one cylinder. Wouldn&#8217;t hurt to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/what-is-compression-test.html\"> perform a compression test<\/a> on each cylinder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife&#8217;s car is using around 1ltr engine oil every 7 to 10 days. It is a Hyundai ix20 1.4 petrol.Getting a little exhaust smoke on startupOr when pulling away after sitting in traffic for a while.Was thinking bad valve stem oil seals ? Sounds about right if you don&#8217;t see an external leak. I&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2021\/09\/burning-a-quart-of-oil-every-week\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burning a quart of oil every week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17076,"featured_media":78405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}