Best Oil To Reduce Oil Consumption On Startup

[amorak]

Hey guys,

my mum's 2001 RAV4 is puffing blue smoke on startup, but otherwise doesn't seem to be using much/any oil during driving, just on startup.

It's been on a synthetic diet all its life, and has been burning like this for a while. She's hoping to sell it soon and I'd like to reduce the amount of burn to see if the problem can be solved with a better/different oil.

I am debating switching to a conventional , high millage oil. The truck has 127K KM on it (~80K mi).

Any advice would be great!

 

[Pete591]

probably do a compression test..you may have a cracked ring. Going a notch up to a heavier oil perhaps?

 

[Gary Allan]

This is typically a valve seal issue. The amount of oil is very small, it's just pooled on an exhaust valve(s).

You can try an HM oil to see if the seal swelling features can be of benefit. I'd normally recommend Auto-Rx, but our Canadian members report difficulties with shipping costs if purchased directly ..and less than favorable customer service from the "in country" source.

 

[amorak]

Which High Mileage oil do you guys recommend?

 

[hpichris]

M1 HM Seems to have some great results for plenty of people.

 

[amorak]

There's a Mobil 1 High Mileage Oil?

 

[hpichris]

Originally Posted By: amorak
There's a Mobil 1 High Mileage Oil?


It's what I'm running on my Eclipse.

https://www.mobiloil.com/USA-English/MotorOil/Oils/Mobil_1_High_Mileage_5w30.aspx

 

[hpichris]

It shouldn't be hard to find. They have been super popular everywhere lately.

 

[StevieC]

Originally Posted By: amorak
There's a Mobil 1 High Mileage Oil?
It's almost impossible to come by up here in Canada and it's usually quite over priced. If you want to use the M1 HM I would sugguest a trip to the US to pick it up or use Valvoline HM oil.

 

[hpichris]

I wonder why it's hard to find in Canada.....If it's hard to find, then I agree with Stevie, get Valvoline HM or even Pennzoil HM. the brown bottle http://pennzoil.com/#/motor-oil/pennzoil-high-mileage-vehicle

 

[StevieC]

Dunno why... Mobil products and other various products in the US are carried up here but not the full line up for whatever reason.

 

[hpichris]

Originally Posted By: StevieC
Dunno why... Mobil products and other various products in the US are carried up here but not the full line up for whatever reason.

Maybe HM hasn't caught up in Canada yet? Who are your big HM motor oil distributors there? Valvoline?

 

[StevieC]

Pennzoil, Quaker State, Valvoline.

 

[hpichris]

So two Shell brands and Valvoline...

 

[StevieC]

Yup... I read about all the Mobil products on their website and we can only get very few here.

Oh well, Amsoil isn't much more than Mobil-1 so I use that instead and can get whatever I want in any grade shipped to my door or pick it up from the warehouse close by.

 

[hpichris]

You should come down and stock up on the PP sale here....

 

[StevieC]

I got 32 Jugs of Valvoline White Bottle, 15 Jugs of QS Peak Performance, 8 jugs of Rotella-T Syn, a jug of M1 5w20, 3 Jugs of M1 5w40 TDT, 2 Jugs of Renewable Lubricant 5w30, about 30 quarts of Amsoil ASL 5w30 and some other stuff I know I'm forgetting... I don't really need any more oil at the moment. Nor do I really have the room either

 

[SAJEFFC]

Originally Posted By: StevieC
I got 32 Jugs of Valvoline White Bottle, 15 Jugs of QS Peak Performance, 8 jugs of Rotella-T Syn, a jug of M1 5w20, 3 Jugs of M1 5w40 TDT, 2 Jugs of Renewable Lubricant 5w30, about 30 quarts of Amsoil ASL 5w30 and some other stuff I know I'm forgetting... I don't really need any more oil at the moment. Nor do I really have the room either

yeppers....you are oil flush!

 

[StevieC]

Let them put the price up... I'm good!

 

[SAJEFFC]

Originally Posted By: StevieC
Let them put the price up... I'm good!