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7 messages, Last post on Sep 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM
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Has anyone else had this issue? Acura says it's normal for a new MDX to burn up to 1QT every 1,000 miles. My brand new 2008 MDX has 13K miles on it and 3 times I've taken it in when the oil either doesn't register on the stick or it reads at the lower hash mark. All 3 times, the dealer fills it up, confirms oil reading and about 1,900 miles later, the oil level is on the lower hash mark or not even registering on the stick. The dealer has done compression tests, bore scoping and oil residue search in exhaust and catalitic converter with no luck finding evidence of burning oil. No oil in my driveway or garage either  Acura says this is normal and won't do anything about it. Advice anyone?
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I have a 2006 TSX that doesn't burn a drop of oil between oil changes. I've never had a new car that burned any at all, and either has anyone I know. How can a dealer say with a straight face that a quart in 1000 miles is normal? Since the car is so new, it might improve in a few thousand miles, if not, they owe you a new car. You see those old cars driving down the road spewing plumes of smoke? They're not even burning that much oil. Acura has too good a reputation to let dealers spread such b.s.
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Replying to: mbros2k (Apr 25, 2009 6:31 pm) |
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Replying to: mdxdriver2 (Apr 23, 2009 12:39 pm) btw, I have a 2007 model. I maybe encountering a similar issue as what you are seeing. I would be interested to hear if anybody else is encountering this on this same vehicle.
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Replying to: jt8 (May 11, 2009 7:25 pm) Acura did replace the "low oil warning monitor" at no add'l charge..probably since it didn't warn us that the dipstick was reading 'dry'. Doesn't sound like you have a similar issue, though. If the maintenance minder says you have 30% left before an oil change it doesn't relate to how much oil you have in the car...only how much 'time' you have left before you need a change. Our oil minder works fine but the problem we had is it said we had around 80% left to an oil change and yet no oil was reading on the dipstick (after about 1,900 miles).
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Replying to: mdxdriver2 (May 12, 2009 3:33 pm)
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Replying to: jt8 (May 20, 2009 3:06 pm) I have a 2008 Acura MDX with similar oil consumption issues. Starting at about 4K miles, I got the warning indicator for oil level and oil pressure. I took it to the dealer and found a service advisory that showed certain VIN's having a defective oil pressure sensor, mine was not in the vin range, but Acura replaced the sensor regardless. Now, at about 9500 miles, I got the same warning indicators and took the vehicle back to the dealer. I was told the oil level was at about 3 quarts, so down almost 2 quarts over 5K miles. Now, I understand the party line is you could loose up to a quart per 1K miles, but literally in the course of an oil change, that would mean you would loose the entire amount of oil originally inserted at the last oil change 4.5 quarts. This seems a bit unusual to be that low on oil with basic city driving in such a short amount of miles. The dealer first tried to blame the use of Mobil 1 Synthetic oil, claiming that is not recommended for the car. Per the manual, as long as the synthetic oil is API certified, which it is, and 5/20 weight, it is perfectly acceptable. So, I am curious if anyone has any ideas as to why the engine is using so much oil? The dealer is doing the same pressure tests, etc.... as the original person above, but I am hoping somebody could help point me in the right direction, as I think they will come back and claim it is normal. |
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