How much oil do you use?
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How much oil does your 99/996 use? Mine seems accessive.. But yet I am not smoking at all and its not leaking. On the 2 changes I have done to the car. Nothing in the filter and very little on the magnetic drain plug. Just a light coat of mouse hair fine metal on the plug.. Less than I get out of my chebby.
120,000 miles AOS maybe?
120,000 miles AOS maybe?
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At 105,000 miles I burn no oil...I think my car is a bit rare not to consume any...but I've never added any during my changes at 10k miles and I never need to add to keep the level up.
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Mine consumes very little oil between changes either. Maybe a half quart every 3,500 miles.
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All my air cooled Porsches never used oil. My first water-cooled car (997S) uses a quart every 1000 miles. Has done so from the moment I picked it up at Zuffenhausen. Am currently at 48,000 miles.
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I changed the oil in my '99 today. After 7500 miles it was down a little more than 1/2 quart. The car has 67,000 miles.
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Kyle your not driving it hard enough
Mine is .5 qts between 5k-6K oil changes.
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Mine is .5 qts between 5k-6K oil changes.
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1 quart in 1k miles is Porsche acceptable usage.... I know its crazy, but even the new cars, Porsche say its fine. Mine doesnt use any oil, but I change my oil every 3000 miles.... yeah Im old school.
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I do run my cars. Being I take a fare amount of short trips, I do tach it up between the lights. This is the way i have driven all my cars and knock on wood, I have never had a major engine problem.
I do try to change every 3K But this time it got to 5 before I did it and in this 996 their is so much of it, I dont think it will hurt it to go 5... but I hear dads voice in my head to get'r done at 3K. Im going to keep my eye on it
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It varies a lot with car/engine, driving style, oil, etc. The rule of thumb use to be a qt./2500 miles was excellent. Porsche and others consider more than a qt./600 miles excessive - except for racing/track use.