Oil use
 

Ive had the car for 6 days and I am fast approaching my 2nd refill of fuel, has anybody experienced any need to top up the oil yet?

um, checked on my 2nd fill up, couldnt see where the oil was lol.

Will try again next fil up.

Nope. Still on the top of the stick.

It will not be horrific anyway , worry not.
My old MeganeCoupe used twice as much oil as my RX7 did ! (and the Renesis us better still).

Just keep an eye on it - suspect it will be every few weeks you actually need to do anything.

ashk: 6 days to reach the 2nd fillup - dont you like the car? ;)

It took me 4 hours of driving on the first day! Just put another 40 quid in, and I've never been happier to play the 80%+ tax.

Cheers
---Dave

890 miles on the clock
To Barry island, Wales along the M4 - 23.3 mpg
back to Slough again - 21.2 mpg (had a 40 minute queue of traffic at J13/14 of the M4 - I seem to get caught in tailbacks at the moment when I've traditionally got away with it. Smartnav is looking better all the time....

car is dead dead dirty.

Bugger wrong thread again.....I'll go check the oil and get back...

ok heres the oil line....this is a just under 900 mile driven car....

and its dirty as hell. But the oil isn't!!

Incidentally... what is the oil on UK cars... 5w20 still ?

Blue,

The Oil is 5w-30 as recommended in the hand book.

You can get it here at a HUGE discount!!

http://www.rx8ownersclub.co.uk/Member%20Benefits.htm

Cheers
Oilman

Oilman - surely you dont have to buy oil??!

Oilman, why so much oil though. I would only expect to be topping it up between services. Why would I need to buy so much?

OK, indeed you dont need to buy tons and tons of oil for the rotaries :D, but guys it is always a good idea to have a small bottle of oil, a small bottle of coolant, and a small tank of fuel (of course well protected and stabilised) in the car (any car).

I cannt tell you how many times this little bottles of oil and coolant have saved my weekends when I was away from Athens with my TII ;)

Lucazade,

The deal is that way to get the best price. You will use it in the end and it's always better to buy in bulk. 10 litres i.e. 10 x 1 litre bottles is not that much anyway.

The price is 1/2 of what you would pay for Castrol at Halfords.

Cheers
Oilman

Apologies for metrics (I didn't go to school before 1966 in Australia)

I put in a half litre after 2000 km's. My oil was down to about halfway between L and H at that point.

The oil seems to drop reasonably quickly to about halfway between L and H, but then seems to slow once it gets that far. Probably becase of the shape of the internals of the engine.

renegade_si's stick looks about right for 900 miles compared to how mine was. I rarely took mine above 7000 during break in to 1000km's and then slowly worked my way up to redline at about 1750km's. Will be interesting to see how much oil I use now I try to "redline a day to keep the mechanic away"