Yes it is my 2016 Honda CRV. By the way I use engine braking everyday I drive it to go down The Long Hills in Pittsburgh. I shift it down to sport mode and sometimes even to L. Also there is a long winding Hill that I go up every day that I drive it in order to come home. It's near my house so by the time I get to it the engine is fully warmed up and usually if it is late in the evening there's no traffic in front of me I shifted down to sport mode before the bottom of the hill and let it fly up the hill. I actually can't use all the power that's available in sport mode because on the bends I would end up rolling it over. 185 HP and 181 ft. lb. If torque does not sound like much when there are vehicles out there with twice that much HP or more, but in a lightly loaded CR-V in sport mode with a CVT it is more than anyone could use with the curves in that road.
I think the downshifting might cause a little bit of oil to get pulled past the valve seals and the near Full Throttle for a little bit flying up that hill every day might cause some oil consumption.
There is one spot that I know of that is dead flat level and I park it there sometimes and give it 15 minutes for the oil to settle down to the sump and top it off if it needs it. I have to wait 15 minutes each time I add oil to see where it ends up on the stick also. I end up adding about a half a quart total for each OCI. And I changed the oil whenever the maintenance minder gets down to 20%. Usually that's about 8 or 9 months and around $3,200 to 4,200 miles. And I'm using Pennzoil Ultra Platinum 0w20 with a Fram Ultra oil filter that I change every time.
The first time I emptied a full use of Pennzoil Ultra Platinum 0W-20 from it I sent a sample into Blackstone and they said that the oil held up fine was still within its viscosity range and wear metal amount was below standard for that type engine the TBN was still plenty good enough to run it longer and the ultra filter was doing a good job because the particulates were in the good range. I'm not going to extend the OCI because of what Blackstone said, that seems to be their standard line if the oil was decent that you should run it longer.
