Subie, I appreciate your input and experience here (especially with the given vehicle!) Its not my first one, just the first experience with the FB and its consumption patterns. My other Subarus would drink some from time to time, so a little bit of burning doesnt worry me, even the 1/2 qt that Miler88 mentioned with his Outback.
For the record, I have been going back and forth on most of my vehicles with either M1 or PP based on shopping the rebates. I do have a little bit of Castrol Magnetec that I got as part of the AA clearance a few years back, but that usually goes in my wife's van.
Originally Posted by NOTEVIL81
Hi i joined this forum after reading your oil consumption problem with your forester. Why do you not want a free $ 6000 dollar engine and loaner car for less than 4 hours time at subaru. just had the engine replaced on my daughters 2016 forester with 49000 miles.she had 1 quart consumption every 400 miles. same consumption even with rotella 10-30. easy peasy but you playing around with various oils your going to miss out. they told me the oil test must be started before 68000 miles. thats 1500$ an hour for your time.
I didnt say I would not want a replacement from Subaru. I havent driven enough or had enough oil changes to know what my "normal" is, so I wanted to ask here. My concern would be that Im seeing the issue, but the Subaru oil (or whatever my dealer is using for fill) would not be consumed as rapidly. I know that if its really worn oil control rings, the maker of the oil is irrelevant. So my thought was to see if anyone else has noticed issues with swapping oils and consumption to draw my own sorts of conclusions. I certainly will go in for the consumption test if the light comes back on, or if I have a noticeable drop on the dipstick. But my dealer is the opposite direction from my work, and its a lot of effort to get there around other travel obligations. So I want to do my own investigating/asking questions about consumption from others before I start down the "official" remedy path.
Im very glad to hear that you had a great experience with your dealer and the consumption testing, and that gives me hope that I would have a similar experience should I need to go down that route.
For the record, I have been going back and forth on most of my vehicles with either M1 or PP based on shopping the rebates. I do have a little bit of Castrol Magnetec that I got as part of the AA clearance a few years back, but that usually goes in my wife's van.
Originally Posted by NOTEVIL81
Hi i joined this forum after reading your oil consumption problem with your forester. Why do you not want a free $ 6000 dollar engine and loaner car for less than 4 hours time at subaru. just had the engine replaced on my daughters 2016 forester with 49000 miles.she had 1 quart consumption every 400 miles. same consumption even with rotella 10-30. easy peasy but you playing around with various oils your going to miss out. they told me the oil test must be started before 68000 miles. thats 1500$ an hour for your time.
I didnt say I would not want a replacement from Subaru. I havent driven enough or had enough oil changes to know what my "normal" is, so I wanted to ask here. My concern would be that Im seeing the issue, but the Subaru oil (or whatever my dealer is using for fill) would not be consumed as rapidly. I know that if its really worn oil control rings, the maker of the oil is irrelevant. So my thought was to see if anyone else has noticed issues with swapping oils and consumption to draw my own sorts of conclusions. I certainly will go in for the consumption test if the light comes back on, or if I have a noticeable drop on the dipstick. But my dealer is the opposite direction from my work, and its a lot of effort to get there around other travel obligations. So I want to do my own investigating/asking questions about consumption from others before I start down the "official" remedy path.
Im very glad to hear that you had a great experience with your dealer and the consumption testing, and that gives me hope that I would have a similar experience should I need to go down that route.
