Engine oil burning

[Zakary24]

Please help me to solve this problem, my Toyota Yaris T 2002 is burning engine oil but no smoke at all. Please what can i do. Zaks

[FROSTYBALLS]

Moved to the Yaris club.

[furtula]

How much oil does it burn  per 600 miles (1000km)?

What's the mileage on the engine?

[Madasafish]

Apart from leaks, oil consumption is due to excess clearances and wear and tear.

Unless you spend £££s on engine repairs, the most economic way to reduce oil consumption is to use a 10w-40 semi synthetic oil.  But your car may already be using that so may not make any difference. There are oil additives you can buy which reduce oil usage by swelling oil seals (on the valve stems) and reducing oil lost that way but the effect is temporary and may be ineffective in a 19 year old car where all seals are old and worn.

 

(I have tried taking out spark plugs  and inserting a little Redex into the cylinders , turning the engine over once, and leaving it to loosen the piston rings for 24 hours - assuming they are stuck due to carbon build up. But it made no difference, the exhaust smoke when the engine was restarted was enough to cover the local area in a foul blue/grey haze and VERY anti social - and made no difference! So I do not recommend that)

 

One of the perils of owning an old and possibly worn old car...(been there)

[flash22]

What engine ? Your profile says turbo so is that a 1.4 diesel or a 1.5 petrol turbo