mogley

So I want enough oil to see me through for another year.
Or at least 6 months.
Ok 6 months.
How many L's?

I say this because John Newell in Sydney is running them at 45$ for 5L and I want to stock up on them and save some $$.

I find that my 8 drinks oil. I topped her up one week ago and she has gone through from just above half on the dipstick to almost at the low mark.
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Filled her up with about 1.5L I think.

Yes I know I can do the calculations.
It's 6L a month which is almost 7x5L bottles for 6 months.

How much oil does everyone else use?

mogley

PS I just ran a search and there are a couple threads on oils.
I don't want to be a slacker and spam the forum so mods may delete this if they wish.
Of course it wouldn't hurt to leave it.

sharkman

wow 45$ for 5l of oil? that's expensive man...move to america

Tim Tam

That's $45 Aust my friend. Equates to about $9.86 US.

mikeyr

TT you crack me up!

Gomez

Depends an how hard you drive the thing. Oil is metered out dependant on the rpm....high rpm, more oil.

I'd go through a five litre bottle in 20,000kms....a bottle a year.

takahashi

I change it too many time that would not care.

The oil pressure max out at 510kPa and idle at 120kPa. Would 510kPa use more oil? I betcha.

kunz

I've had the rx8 for 9 months and in that time gone through 2/2.5 bottles.

seymore15074

Same here, I hardly ever need to add oil... I don't check every other fill-up anymore either....waste of time. I keep my RPMs low to save gas, and I drive around slow like a pimp...

Lone Ranger

I use 1L between services (10K)

Revolver

Sounds to me that you need a Chrysler 300C SRT.

Love the avatar - quite hypnotic.

seymore15074

My buddy has a dark blue 300C with 22" wheels, custom stereo, custom alarm, all tinted out...it's sick. It's got two tone leather, navi, etc...but it's not an SRT.

Revolver

They have great street presence don't they?

And anything that gets pimps out of Caddys and Hummers has to be good.

Rotor Convert

Oh PLLEEEAASEE

Rotor Convert

I go through about 1lt/500 - 700 km's.

BTW just did the 10,000kms service with the WD.... Easy as......filter is a bit of a pig to get off....other than that...it's not worth what Mazda charge!!!!

Car now got Castrol special Edge oil in it.......happy with that...yes i am....saved myself.....megabucks and all genuine parts......

axsym911

Liter every 1500km here.

Revolver

We're easily entertained...

Revolver

You'll find oil use will slightly taper off now that you're past the 10K mark (if comments in previous threads are anything to go by).

I'm also heading to synthetic next service. Much easier for topups between services (i.e. you can pick up a 1 litre bottle of Edge or similar from any servo).