Technical What is your oil consumption on Grande Punto ?

[maximmm]

hello everyone,

my car is : Grande Punto 2008, 8V ,1400 Petrol engine.
This car is new to me, and the oil consumption looks too much for me.
I know that the manual talk about eating 400gr oil per 1000Km.
What is your average oil consumption in your Grande punto ?
I just want to compare my car to your.

Thanks,

Max .M

 

[peter7889]

Althought i have got an mjet mine has used no oil in a year. None of the my other cars have used any oil, the level on the dip stick always stays constant throught out the year untill the service.

 

[Matt Boulton]

i have a 1.2 8v petrol and that dosent seem to change
the level on the dipstick is always the same

 

[Mozarella]

I have a 1.4, 8 valve. The car has done 3000 miles. I've added oil once from new. The car will use more oil until the engine has 'worn in', rings are seated and bores settled.

 

[maximmm]

Looks like my car burning oil very well, i need to take in to garage to check
the problem. The engine oil is Agip GTS 5W40 and it's pretty dark for 500km
i made since i bought it and changed the oil.
Any ideas about what can be the problem ? Rings ? Pistons ?

Thanks for reply

Max

 

[Mozarella]

You haven't said how much it's burning. Oil becomes discoloured quickly once it's added.

If you do have a problem a compression check will give you an indication of where it lies. Bore wear, ring wear, valve guides etc.

Pull out the spark plugs and have a look. They are often good indicators of what your engine is burning.

 

[Helloo Bean]

My oil level in my 1.9 mjet hasnt changed in 3000 miles

 

[maximmm]

if from min to max is 1 liter looks like i lost 250 gram of oil for 500 Km
No leaks visible, also no smoke.

 

[D4nny8oy]

if from min to max is 1 liter looks like i lost 250 gram of oil for 500 Km

In the UK it's upto 1 litre per 1000miles, so from what I can work out, you're within the tolerance Fiat specify.

Sure you've got no leaks, eg loose oil filter?

 

[Andy Monty]

on my 1.2 8 v (virtually the same engine) i put about a litre a year in (working on a years motoring been around 8000miles )

 

[Mozarella]

if from min to max is 1 liter looks like i lost 250 gram of oil for 500 Km
No leaks visible, also no smoke.

That doesn't sound like anything odd is going on. But if you have worries a compression check is your next step. Some modern cars use more oil than others. (The zero oil usage of the Fiat diesels on here suprises me) . My car is three months old , and uses about the same as yours, although it does a lot of motorway miles at about 4000 rpm.

Check the oil weekly.

 

[maximmm]

From what i hear around, is that other similar engines "eat" less oil.
That's probably mean that i have some problem in the engine.
From what i know Turbo charged engines "Drinks" oil. But in fiat Grande 1.4 engine it's different.

Anyway Thanks for help. I hope to get back with some results.

Thanks

Max. M

 

[Magic Johnson]

Have you checked there's no leaks coming from your sump? Could have caught it on a bit of debris or something.

 

[greengohome]

mjet 1.9... as far as I can tell no oil consumption between changes (10.000 km with 80.000 km on the car)

I doubt it's really 0 but it's not enough to move the dipstick level.

 

[maximmm]

Have you checked there's no leaks coming from your sump? Could have caught it on a bit of debris or something.

Yap i checked for leaks ... nothing

 

[peter7889]

I have hear other people say that diesals especialy turbo models use oil, But in the year i have had the car i have put 7000 miles on it and althought the oil is black and smelly the dip stick level hasn't moved at all.

I have owned two petrol cars before my mjet and either of them ever needed topping up the dip stick never moved, the oil did remain a lot cleaner than it dose in my diesal though. Personaly if i had brought a new car and had to top it up i wouldn't be very happy as i consider the engine to have been made with very poor tolerances with oil either passing the rings or the valve seats.

 

[Grandepuntoperson]

I have a 1.4 eight valve 70 bhp Punto Sound - new last year and now approaching 4,000 miles.

I have had no reason to put any oil in it yet - it has used a bit, but not enough to bother about.

The indicated level on the stick varies a bit, depending on how level the ground is, and also how long the engine has been stopped

 

[zed]

I believe the 1.2 engines are known for drinking a lot of oil. Ours does. whilst our other car 1.4 16v sporting uses a bit but not much.
Got to be careful as neither engine has abig oil reservoir.

 

[Grandepuntoperson]

Got to be careful as neither engine has abig oil reservoir.

Isn't it a litre from upper to lower mark on the stick?

That's a fair old dollop.

Edit to add...

my Mk2B Punto was 1.2, and it never needed topping up... but it was only 54K miles when I traded it in.

Did you peeps with the heavy oil use not drive them hard enough in the first few hundred miles?

 

[nesma]

1.9 MJet '07

Bought it was 33,000 on the clock and oil didn't budge all the way up to 55,000.
I've just had the oil changed since it's been a while - before you all gasp at how large that interval was - but it's still hadn't got low.

Now..I don't know what oil came with the car, I can only assume the dealer used Selina. I know my service has just had Quantum put in (though I thought they were going to use Selina).