21-02-2015, 10:07 PM
I recently purchased a 2008 Berlingo with a small front impact, so a new near side drive, radiator and bumper later she is back on the road. She has been on the road about a month at this stage and she is using about a litre of oil a week, covering about 250-300 miles per week.
This seems like an excessive amount of oil, particularly as she drives fine, better than the 2007 van I already have and there isn't any smoke so I figured the oil must be either running into the gearbox (considering she took an impact on that side) or into the fuel system. So I checked both the fuel tank and the gear box and no, no sign of the missing oil, which brings me back to the question: is she burning all this oil, or where else could it be going??? And no there isn't puddles of oil on the ground where she is parked over night...
If she was burning that amount of oil I would imagine that there would be clouds of smoke out the tail pipe, but there isn't???
Any comments would be greatly appreciated??
This seems like an excessive amount of oil, particularly as she drives fine, better than the 2007 van I already have and there isn't any smoke so I figured the oil must be either running into the gearbox (considering she took an impact on that side) or into the fuel system. So I checked both the fuel tank and the gear box and no, no sign of the missing oil, which brings me back to the question: is she burning all this oil, or where else could it be going??? And no there isn't puddles of oil on the ground where she is parked over night...
If she was burning that amount of oil I would imagine that there would be clouds of smoke out the tail pipe, but there isn't???
Any comments would be greatly appreciated??