Min to Max oil level on the 'yota

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:26 pm

Anyone know how many litres of oil I need to go from min to max oil level on Toyota engine?

Cheers.

Post by ed » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:19 am

i think it must be over a litre, but not exactly sure, i dont reckon mine was filled up properly when i had my service done as ive added almost a litre and its still not at the max level.

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:07 am

Its well over a litre, or maybe thats because I spilled half of it over the engine. Its not an easy cap to reach with a 5 litre bottle

Might have to just RTFM

Brian J · Post by **Brian J** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:54 am

Think it's a ltre and a half? No one have a Handbook?

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:35 am

Litre and a half sounds about right, was out and about last night and the handbook is in the flat. Wanted to make sure I didnt overfill it.

Post by ed » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:00 am

are they supposed to fill up the oil to the max level at the service or around halfway?

if they filled it full then i have managed to burn over 1.5 litres?!

surely that aint possible?!

Post by **Shug** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:04 am

ed wrote:are they supposed to fill up the oil to the max level at the service or around halfway?

if they filled it full then i have managed to burn over 1.5 litres?!

surely that aint possible?!

Yes, dear boy, it seems to be.....

Oil surge with trackdays seems to be a Toyota issue (not that they are admitting anything yet) May be worth saving for an accusump...

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:07 am

My CTR could easily go through half a litre on a 4 hour trackday, it would seem the Toyota engine might be as greedy on the oil.

Checked mine regularly at the start and never used any oil, checked it yesterday and it was down to about 1/4 way above min.

Brian J · Post by **Brian J** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:31 am

Yes - I put in about a third of a litre after a KH night and Croft day.

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:46 pm

Brian J wrote:Yes - I put in about a third of a litre after a KH night and Croft day.

I have already asked them to check oil usage - factory had no hard figures but wouldn't be interested in consumption less than 1l/1000miles. Interestingly I think on track it easily performs worse than that, so if all you did was drive to/from and then at KH you could easily use more oil than they would think right and get a new engine - of course if you mistime that you would instead have no engine

Cheers,
Robin

Post by ed » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:35 pm

mine has drunk another litre and its now sitting at half way

could there be a fault with me engine?!

edit:sp

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:17 am

Mine has used less than 1/2 L in 12K miles despite plenty of track work.

PhilA · Post by **PhilA** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:26 am

mine used abit (about 300 ml) after the first 4k including a trackday.

not used a drop since and am now on 13.5k

Post by **Shug** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:54 am

ed wrote:mine has drunk another litre and its now sighting half way

could there be a fault with me engine?!

Some engines do drink hard when worked hard... The old M5 V8 was famous for it's oil consumption, with no outward signs of it.

Having said that, it's concerning having such a discrepancy between engines - I'd maybe have brought usage into the equation (revs used, time at full throttle, etc.) but I can't see Ali grannying the car.....

PhilA · Post by **PhilA** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:59 am

when i was on track and used the 2nd gear for the chicane etc, i used up oil - car was in the red zone more.

since then i change up when the light comes on - and the oil consumption has dropped.

the exige has a different system with the oil coolers etc.

who knows