Assuming you trusted the advice of that VW mechanic 15 years ago, and I
assume you did. You are still well within the 1 litre per 1KM. Which is, of
course, 625 miles or so. A litre is also bigger than a quart.
Sleep tight, drive more.

My 1.9, for comparisons sake, uses less than a quart every 2000 miles.

tim in san jose

>
>Greetings listmembers,
>
>I purchased my 1987 new in Germany at one of the
>"drive around europe
>and ship it home" purchase plans.  While driving in
>Europe, I found
>the van to use 1 quart of oil every 1000 miles.  I
>asked a mechanic at
>a
>VW
>dealer in germany what was the problem and he told me
>that it is
>acceptable for Vanagons to use as much as one liter
>every 1000 KM's.
>I accepted his answer and the van ran fine, using a
>quart every 1000
>miles for 193,000 miles.
>
>I recently had a rebuilt engine installed and now the
>van uses a quart
>of oil every 900 miles.
>
>Thoughts?  Anyone else use a lot of oil in their
>wasserboxen.
>
>By the way, the oil seems to be blow-by ... the air
>intake near the
>AFM is very oily.  Blow-by could be rings that didn't
>seat properly.
>
>Tim Hurlbut
>87 Vanagon
>90 Vanagon GL
>
>PS.  The 90 uses about 1 quart every 2 thousand miles.
>  145,000 miles
>

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