03-24-2014, 10:49 AM
WRXtranceformed Wrote:My CTS needed to have about a quart added between changes which seemed off to me too. According to the user manual it was considered "normal". I remember talking to the Cadillac service reps about it and they had seen several of them come in for engine issues because owners did not heed the manual warnings and didn't check their oil enough. Some of the first DI engines I guess were pretty heavy on the oil blowby / oil being pushed into the intake manifold. After I added the catch can on my car it would catch about 1/8-1/4 of a quart between oil changes that would have otherwise ended up in the intake system. I think that is poor engineering personally because every stock Jap car I ever owned never burned a drop. I think it's up in the air for some cars to burn oil over others.
Yeah. I see reports from Cadillacs all over the place too. Unbelievable that the manufacturers say it is normal. No, manufacturer, you just fucked up the design of 100% of them. So yeah, if your gauge of "normal" is that all of the cars exhibit it... Perfectly normal.
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4 wheels: '01 RAV4 (Formerly '93 Civic CX, '01 S2000, '10 GTI, '09 A4 Avant)
2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
No longer onyachin.