Oh yes, good old direct injection.
After my previous two direct injected cars (a combined 230,000 miles of driving) I’m happy to announce that none of my current cars have direct injection (2016 Toyota Avalon, surprisingly not direct injected), a 2008 Honda CRV and a Mercedes GL350.
But direct injection, let’s see...at 150,000 miles one of my cars began drinking so much oil that I had to carry around a quart in the trunk. Between 5,000 mile intervals I’d add 5 quarts. Traded it in at 179,000 miles. And my other direct injected engine...installed an oil catch can at 10,000 miles, drove it to 60,000 miles in two years. 5,000 mile intervals...adding a quart to a quart and a half between changes. Spent every day of those two years arguing with strangers on the internet about oil consumption, catch cans, the need to “only run Amsoil”, carbon on your valves is not “bad”, carbon on your valves is “bad”, you don’t have carbon on your valves, prove it, you don’t know, my grand daddy’s 1978 farm truck was carbureted and had 250,000 miles on it...the carbon on his valves never hurt a thing. Still running today. Don’t tell my direct injection is worse than carb fed engines. Why yooooou...
So it’s kind of nice to take a break from all that. Haha.
. Ford went to this as well in 2017. I think it's the best way to keep intake deposits at an acceptable level while still relying on direct injection in gasoline engines.
