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- From: rakhee@hume.CS.ORST.EDU (Rakhee Gupta)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Toyota Corolla-Oil Burning problem
- Message-ID: <1eohglINNfsp@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 17:54:29 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University
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- I have Toyota Carolla 84 with 75K miles on it.
- The car runs fine but it burns around a quart of oil
- over a period of 500 miles. Initially I thought
- there was a oil leak somewhere. I looked around also
- had a mechanic look over it. We didn't find any leaks
- at all and he says the oil loss could be due to worn
- piston rings. He says just keep adding oil and not to
- worry about it.
- Later as my friend suggested I opened the spark plugs and found
- carbon soot on three. One of the plugs had oily deposits
- over it. All three spark plugs were knew and were replaced
- only 1Kmiles/2months before.
- Does this confirm that the only one cylinder has problem ?
- Also another question I have is whether the worn piston rings
- are the only reason for oil burns or there could be other reasons
- which could be causing the problem and are less expensive
- to fix.
- I was planning to drive the car for two more years (i.e. around
- 25K miles) and still have some resale value left .
- Can I just keep driving the car without correcting the problem ?
- or I better get find the root of the problem and get it fixed.
-
- Can anyone suggest some ways to find out the real cause
- fo the problem. This looks like a costly fix and I don't
- know much about cars and wouldn't like to be taken for ride.
-
- Any help or insight greatly appreciated.
-