Oil Usage in the Boxster S

[Guest]

Hi,

Can anyone give their usage of Mobil One, Colchester Porsche said 1 litre per 600 miles, sounds a lot?

Thanks

Heath

 

[JCB..]

ORIGINAL: Heathcliffe

Hi,

Can anyone give their usage of Mobil One, Colchester Porsche said 1 litre per 600 miles, sounds a lot?

Thanks

Heath

Sounds a very lot. [&:]

I've put in about a litre in total in between services since I've had my 2.7.

Thats 7 years and 94k miles. [8D]

 

[ianfiat]

I added about half a litre after the first 5000 miles (from new)

 

[JCB..]

At Colchester's quoted consumption rate I should have put in an extra 156 litres by now.

My Lambretta running at a 25% mixture doesn't use much more than that. [&:]

 

[jimso]

Never had any need to put any in my S. Done 4k miles since the last service.

 

[Robin M]

Hi, I would guess the OPC are quoting you the worst case figure. If you have a properly run in car then its negligible between services. I have used 1/2 litre in 28K miles.

 

[Mark_Bennett]

As far as I recall the permitted consumption is UP TO 1 litre per 1000km.
Are you saying yours is consuming that much?

 

[Black80XSA]

Changed my own oil in the 987 at 10k miles - it had lost one bar on the dash display. Another 8k miles later (on Fuchs Porsche approved 5W40 and its still on the max)

 

[Guest]

I had the car the first night and placed it in the garage. The next morning I moved the car out to get some stuff. After I had got the gear I wanted I went to put the car back in the garage and the diagnostic oil check took ages (because of the oil not being hot) it then said that it was 2 bars off the minimum[/b], I got a shock as the chap that sold me the car had showed it to be 2 bars off the maximum. Feck I thought! Ok my drive has a slight gradient but it's no black run! Then I went and had a look at the dipstick, the good old fashioned way, this also said the minimum.

I called the dealer he said 1000Km for one litre of Mobil 1 as a maximum. I thought that was BS, as I have had no modern sports car that uses that volume of oil, and can only think of one that does, the RX7 with the wankle engine!

I then placed 300 ml of Mobil 1 in the car, placed it back in the garage on the flat for 2 hours. Low and behold its 1 bar off the top, rather than the 2 the seller had shown me, this is obviously the 300 ml I placed in the car that caused the difference.

Interesting to learn that they have now deleted the dipstick on new Boxster models?

Lesson learnt, don't be so hasty!

Thanks chaps for all your help.

Heath

 

[Mark_Bennett]

The difference between just used, and cold can be quite dramatic. (Despite the gauge telling you when it has had time for a reading!)

Glad yours is ok []