911 575F1 Posted 12July, 2011 Report Share Posted 12July, 2011 Hi, I'm new to the forum, this is my fourth Porsche and so far fantastic. Its a 997, 2nd gen, Carrera 4, my question is on oil use. I am consistently using about a litre of oil every 1500, 2000 miles, regardless of city or highway use. Does that sound normal? The car is new and I'm up to 9000 k's in a short while and I'm not seeing much change in the oil consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnr356 Posted 13July, 2011 Report Share Posted 13July, 2011 not sure about 997's but porsche always said that 1 litre per 1000k's was acceptable(i never really agreed with that ) info should be in your owners manual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC9911 Posted 13July, 2011 Report Share Posted 13July, 2011 Hi, I'm new to the forum, this is my fourth Porsche and so far fantastic. Its a 997, 2nd gen, Carrera 4, my question is on oil use. I am consistently using about a litre of oil every 1500, 2000 miles, regardless of city or highway use. Does that sound normal? The car is new and I'm up to 9000 k's in a short while and I'm not seeing much change in the oil consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC9911 Posted 13July, 2011 Report Share Posted 13July, 2011 My 2010 911 c4 now has 3395klms on it & is using about 400 mls each 1000klms. I have done a bit of research & it appears to be because of the high compression. Seems that general consensus is it levels out at about 8-10,000klms. There is a fair bit on the U S Rentech forum if your interested. My previous 996 used about a half litre at a track day so I'm not concerned about jthe 997. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
911 575F1 Posted 13July, 2011 Author Report Share Posted 13July, 2011 My 2010 911 c4 now has 3395klms on it & is using about 400 mls each 1000klms. I have done a bit of research & it appears to be because of the high compression. Seems that general consensus is it levels out at about 8-10,000klms. There is a fair bit on the U S Rentech forum if your interested. My previous 996 used about a half litre at a track day so I'm not concerned about jthe 997. Thanks, your info & pretty much everything else I found says the car will use oil at about a litre per 1000k, give or take. That's fine as long as it's normal. I'll see what it does when I get over 10k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
911 575F1 Posted 13July, 2011 Author Report Share Posted 13July, 2011 not sure about 997's but porsche always said that 1 litre per 1000k's was acceptable(i never really agreed with that ) info should be in your owners manual Thanks, your 1 litre per 1000k seems to be the consensus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
911 575F1 Posted 4September, 2011 Author Report Share Posted 4September, 2011 Oil use has settled with some KM's on the car. It was serviced at 11000 km and just completed 13500 km, all city with a just a few long trips so plenty of cold short trips and hard accelerating use, the car used a litre of oil for those 2400 km's vs never having done more than 1500km per litre previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-p Posted 4September, 2011 Report Share Posted 4September, 2011 Glad its settled down a bit for you. Enjoy! Cheers Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
911 575F1 Posted 20November, 2011 Author Report Share Posted 20November, 2011 Latest oil use much better. Used 1 Ltr for 4000 km. Car is up to 17500km. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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