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2013 90k miles burns oil. Use 0-30?

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by chuckiechan, May 23, 2022.

  1. abdullah arslan

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    solution is simple, keep it cleaner. Increase frequency of oil changes, and it will start to burn less and be minimal over a few changes unless it is critical level. Due to the design of the rings as people here said, they get stuck faster than usual. So need good oil with frequent changes. This is the root cause of EGR story. First, car starts burning oil, then leakage from PCV to Intake starts. Clogged intake passages cause misfires and EGR gets dirtier faster than usual. As a result, ICE puts more pressure on cold starts. This cycle will get worse and worse unless measures taken and gasket will start to get crushed under severe pressure and pistons might drill holes on the engine.

    I bought a 2010 one at 230k was burning oil, after my services and improvements, now burns little oil mostly on mountainous roads at 257k. I highly recommend putting the car on Power mode over hilly roads
     
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  2. ASRDogman

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    The only way you'll stop the oil burning is to upgrade them. How much remains to be seen.
    Thicker oil will slow it down a little. Changing it more often won't change it either. Of course if you go
    50,000 miles between oil changes, that's a problem....
    So cut it in half and do 7500 miles oil/filter charges....