EHM needed

scrambledKJ · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:48 pm

So my service manual says 6250 miles between oil changes. At 4500 miles I am 1.5 quarts low. Where has it gone? My IC must be filled with slime by now. Has anyone taken their rig in for service to find the missing oil? I would be interested in what DC has to say.

Travis

UFO · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:34 pm

I purposely keep my oil level just above the MIN mark, and it loses less. I've done the same thing with my old Mercedes diesel, and I hardly lose anything if I maintain the low mark.

kccrd · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:35 pm **Posts:** 267

Maybe since you only have 4500 miles on your vehicle it is not even a fourth the way to being broken in it will probably burn some oil until it gets broken in I would not change the oil until at least 9 or 10 thousand miles to let the rings set in properly. On my last vw diesel it had chrome piston rings and the factory said not to change the oil for about 8 or 9000 mile to let the rings set in properly initial fill oil from the factory is different from what you put in later because of the break in period. Hope this helps

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:13 am

kccrd wrote:

Maybe since you only have 4500 miles on your vehicle it is not even a fourth the way to being broken in it will probably burn some oil until it gets broken in I would not change the oil until at least 9 or 10 thousand miles to let the rings set in properly. On my last vw diesel it had chrome piston rings and the factory said not to change the oil for about 8 or 9000 mile to let the rings set in properly initial fill oil from the factory is different from what you put in later because of the break in period. Hope this helps

I think he meant 4500 miles out of 6250.

kjfishman · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:42 am

scrambledKJ wrote:

So my service manual says 6250 miles between oil changes. At 4500 miles I am 1.5 quarts low. Where has it gone? My IC must be filled with slime by now. Has anyone taken their rig in for service to find the missing oil? I would be interested in what DC has to say.

Travis

When I bought mine it used a quart in the first 6k. Since then it doesn't burn a drop of oil. I think it is just how it starts to break in.

Joe Romas · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:55 am

For all you new CRD owners, the dip stick is marked wrong :!:

Drain your oil completly then add EXACTLY 6.3 quarts and you'll see where the correct level is :lol:

What's happening is your putting in too much oil and it's blowing it out :roll:

BiodieselJeep.com · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:45 pm

Joe Romas wrote:

For all you new CRD owners, the dip stick is marked wrong :!:

Drain your oil completly then add EXACTLY 6.3 quarts and you'll see where the correct level is :lol:

What's happening is your putting in too much oil and it's blowing it out :roll:

Joe:
wait wait wait. If the dipstick can be wrong m then the manual listing the 6.3 quarts number might be wrong. DC is wrong all the time. I think Old Navy said the oil stick was right on this (but needed more than listed), but the tranny stick was wrong but the listed amount was right? Of course, my brain doesn't remember much.

Old Navy, where are you?

Joe Romas · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:50 pm

BiodieselJeep.com wrote:

Joe Romas wrote:

For all you new CRD owners, the dip stick is marked wrong :!:

Drain your oil completly then add EXACTLY 6.3 quarts and you'll see where the correct level is :lol:

What's happening is your putting in too much oil and it's blowing it out :roll:

Joe:
wait wait wait. If the dipstick can be wrong m then the manual listing the 6.3 quarts number might be wrong. DC is wrong all the time. I think Old Navy said the oil stick was right on this (but needed more than listed), but the tranny stick was wrong but the listed amount was right? Of course, my brain doesn't remember much.

Old Navy, where are you?

READ READ READ this thread!!!
http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/vie ... ck&start=0
The listed amount of tranny fluid stated on the F37 instructions were wrong and the stick on the tranny is correct.

danoid · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:13 pm

kccrd wrote:

Maybe since you only have 4500 miles on your vehicle it is not even a fourth the way to being broken in it will probably burn some oil until it gets broken in I would not change the oil until at least 9 or 10 thousand miles to let the rings set in properly. On my last vw diesel it had chrome piston rings and the factory said not to change the oil for about 8 or 9000 mile to let the rings set in properly initial fill oil from the factory is different from what you put in later because of the break in period. Hope this helps

Yeah, they told me that with my TDI also. So I didn't even look at the oil level until the oil light came on at 5000 miles. Turns out the turbo bearing had been leaking. Never saw a drip because it landed in the belly pan and blew away when driving, not in the garage. I had to put 3 quarts in before I saw anything on the dipstick! What impressed me was the thing was pulling 45 mpg WITH NO OIL.

VW quality? Had to wait a month for a new turbo. I'll keep my VM, with all it's warts...

Joe Romas · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:22 pm

danoid wrote:

kccrd wrote:

Yeah, they told me that with my TDI also. So I didn't even look at the oil level until the oil light came on at 5000 miles. Turns out the turbo bearing had been leaking. Never saw a drip because it landed in the belly pan and blew away when driving, not in the garage. I had to put 3 quarts in before I saw anything on the dipstick! What impressed me was the thing was pulling 45 mpg WITH NO OIL.

VW quality? Had to wait a month for a new turbo. I'll keep my VM, with all it's warts...

Maybe I don't understand :shock:

You drove your tdi for 5k miles and never checked the oil :roll:

You may be interested in knowing that Garett made both of your tdi's and crd's turbos :wink:

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