My 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan currently has just short of 48K Miles. I purchased the vehicle new. It was using 1/2-1 Qt of dino oil in about 1200 miles.
I changed to Pennzoil Platinum and consumption dropped to about a half quart in 3000 miles. A great improvement.
I am on my second run of Penn Plat. At 1700 miles into this oil change, I again used about 3/4ths of a quart of oil. However, 700 miles of this was towing a 1780 lb. pop-up camper. I enough oil to bring this up to full. It did not use any oil on the 700 mile return trip.
Is is safe to assume that the comsumption was a combination of mileage and tow load? I was feeling pretty good about the reduced lack of consumption on my last OCI and was hopeful that Penn Plat was the answer to my problem. Of course I will continue to monitor the oil levels but thought that it wouldn't hurt to get input from you guys.
Thanks in advance.
I changed to Pennzoil Platinum and consumption dropped to about a half quart in 3000 miles. A great improvement.
I am on my second run of Penn Plat. At 1700 miles into this oil change, I again used about 3/4ths of a quart of oil. However, 700 miles of this was towing a 1780 lb. pop-up camper. I enough oil to bring this up to full. It did not use any oil on the 700 mile return trip.
Is is safe to assume that the comsumption was a combination of mileage and tow load? I was feeling pretty good about the reduced lack of consumption on my last OCI and was hopeful that Penn Plat was the answer to my problem. Of course I will continue to monitor the oil levels but thought that it wouldn't hurt to get input from you guys.
Thanks in advance.
