My car burns about 1 liter of oil every 2000 km. There are no leaks. There's no noticeable blue smoke. As the engine otherwise runs fine, I don't want to take it apart yet. What can I do to lower oil consumption? Should I change the oil grade? Right now I'm using 10w-40 as the manual recommends and the records show it was changed regularly. I don't want to put in anything else than what's in the manual (10w-30 or 10w-40 for these temperatures). Do I really have a choice or should I just live with it? As I drive a lot these days, it's easy to forget to check the oil level...

B200K
240.000 km

any oil in the water? with that kinda milage theres a fair chance its just burning up..

No oil in water and no water in oil. Yes, it's probably just burning it. I'll try changing brands, I've heard it helps sometimes.

i personally use 15/40, its whats reccomended in my haynes manual, but then i dont have extreme temperatures here

360GL wrote:My car burns about 1 liter of oil every 2000 km.

I find that strange, so much!

We are talking about the B200 here, even with 240.000 km it's strange > I can't really admit the explanation that it's just burnt

How and where do you use the car? (I mean motorway, speed...)