I read through some of the old threads where owners were complaining about excessive oil consumption and thought I'd offer the following recent observation. Our 2005 EX-L currently has approximately 130K miles and since approximately 80K I have noticed that it seems to consume an excessive amount of oil. I'd estimate that we burn about 1 quart every 1200-1500 miles. If I didn't check the oil level frequently by the time that the maintenance minder would alert to an oil change I'd only have about 1.5 quarts left. Plugs were done at 90K as well as all other maintenance. Everything else seems fine.
So this is my recent observation. Several weeks ago we were driving on a long stretch of a flat road near the coast and I had a friend following us on the trip. He called me on my cell at one point and he said that about every minute or so our van would put out a puff of smoke. I thought about it for a bit and wondered if it happened when the VCM kicked in an out. To test it I drove for a mile of so with very light throttle so that the VCM would stay engaged. With him on the phone I accelerated slightly to disengage the VCM and ask if he just saw a puff and he said yes. Said it looked like grey/blue oil burning type smoke.
Does anyone think that the VCM could be responsible for what seems like an excessive amount of owners reporting high oil consumption?
--Adam
So this is my recent observation. Several weeks ago we were driving on a long stretch of a flat road near the coast and I had a friend following us on the trip. He called me on my cell at one point and he said that about every minute or so our van would put out a puff of smoke. I thought about it for a bit and wondered if it happened when the VCM kicked in an out. To test it I drove for a mile of so with very light throttle so that the VCM would stay engaged. With him on the phone I accelerated slightly to disengage the VCM and ask if he just saw a puff and he said yes. Said it looked like grey/blue oil burning type smoke.
Does anyone think that the VCM could be responsible for what seems like an excessive amount of owners reporting high oil consumption?
--Adam