I've been doing the oil changes on a friend's '00 saturn SW2. the saturn 1.9 is a known oil consumer. 2 years ago, I converted it to amsoil (ran the amsoil engine flush according to recommendations)and car seemed fine, for a while. consumption was about 1qt/1500miles. I kept it topped off, all seemed well.
one day less than a yr ago, she comes to me, tells me the oil light was on (not the OLM, but the pressure light!) how long? 'oh, for awhile, and it's making funny noises'. checked the dipstick, bone dry. quick threw a few qts in, she drove it home, quiet again.
I then did a MMO soak on it (cheap trick, sometimes frees up the rings) changed the oil (fresh cheap dino) w/ the idea I would get back to it soon. in the meantime, I told her to get a case of oil to keep in the back (good idea for any saturn owner) and showed her how to check the oil. she's been keeping it topped off.
last night, I told her I wanted to change the oil and filter (I was going to put a bottle of ARX in). she tells me she just got it changed at jiffy. says she got 'some kind of flush'. they told her she was burning oil real bad and showed her the (supposed) oil cap all sludged up (Be eS, there was never any sludge issues in this car). she left out of there $80 lighter.
anyway, is there any point now in doing an ARX treatment? the car has over 110K, been run low on oil at least twice, been run overfull a few times as well (before I started to work on it)and now it got a jiffyboob flush.
truly, no good deed goes unpunished.
one day less than a yr ago, she comes to me, tells me the oil light was on (not the OLM, but the pressure light!) how long? 'oh, for awhile, and it's making funny noises'. checked the dipstick, bone dry. quick threw a few qts in, she drove it home, quiet again.
I then did a MMO soak on it (cheap trick, sometimes frees up the rings) changed the oil (fresh cheap dino) w/ the idea I would get back to it soon. in the meantime, I told her to get a case of oil to keep in the back (good idea for any saturn owner) and showed her how to check the oil. she's been keeping it topped off.
last night, I told her I wanted to change the oil and filter (I was going to put a bottle of ARX in). she tells me she just got it changed at jiffy. says she got 'some kind of flush'. they told her she was burning oil real bad and showed her the (supposed) oil cap all sludged up (Be eS, there was never any sludge issues in this car). she left out of there $80 lighter.
anyway, is there any point now in doing an ARX treatment? the car has over 110K, been run low on oil at least twice, been run overfull a few times as well (before I started to work on it)and now it got a jiffyboob flush.
truly, no good deed goes unpunished.