added 1 qt. at 2800 Mi. is this in the normal range ?

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07-18-2001, 07:55 PM

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My car has 11,000 miles and burns about 1qt per thousand miles. The dealer says that Honda told them that this amount is normal. Has anyone else been told this? I was expecting it to level off by now.

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07-18-2001, 10:13 PM

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Not to sh!t in anyones Cheerios, but I VTEC a butt load and I've never had to add any between oil changes (every 5K)

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07-19-2001, 02:40 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by yidal8

Also V-TEC feels weaker after I added the 10w-30 oil . This is strange and complete opposite to what you would expect .(maybe just coincedence and is because of bad gas or something ? )

The weaker feel could likely be from warmer intake temps more so than from the oil.