Toyotas Using Lots Of Oil ?

[duncan bladen]

iam thinking of buying a toyota corolla 1.3 or 1.4vvti . i keep hearing "stories about bad oil consumption "ie they use a lot ? can any one confirm these reports? iam am gonna buy a 98 or 99 model - you opinions / experiance would be appreciated . [ im also looking at a nissan almera 1.4 - as i had 2 1.4 sunnys - and no probs - ] sorry to mention the N word on here lol

[duncan bladen]

anyone ??? :)

[XT2]

I had a Carina E (K reg) some while back. No probs with that whatsoever.

The Honda, by-the-way did digest the oil somewhere.

Currently Rav4, too soon to check, just bought, just serviced.

[duncan bladen]

see i used to work at a toyota garage on svc reception , but it was when they just lost the toyota franchise , an i seem to remember getting quite a few old shape avensis in for this very problem

[duncan bladen]

right guys, there is a known problem with vvti engines and oil consumption - i have confirmed it at a large toyota dealer - which is part of the large company i work for , its the vvti engines that suffer - so ?????

[Jones~32]

Yes, it appears there was an issue with some of the early VVTi engines burning oil, i think it was more the 1.8 used in the Avensis that suffered, but i believe that some owners have reported similar problems on the 1.4

If your unsure, get the car checked out by Toyota ;)

[duncan bladen]

i havnt bought one yet - but it wont be a vvti , im not puttin oil in - my 3 yr old focus uses none

[G6-R]

Buy a facelifted Corolla E12 and you have no problem with the oil consump

[duncan bladen]

which one is the face lifted model ? - i personally like the one with the round headlamps

[G6-R]

This one is the latest facelifted model E12

[Scottish_SR]

My 1.6 vvti used lots of oil! So much so, I had to put a new engine in!

[xenos]

my 1.3 4EFE corolla has absolutely no oil consumption...

not a drop...

[bhinderharminder]

ive got a 02-plate 1.6 E12 pre-facelift corolla, and it hardly uses oil. I think it was mainly the 1.8 engine which has the oil problem.

[DesBoyle]

Yeah I have a 00 vvti 1.4 , using lots of oil, after a 6 month battle with Toyota they're taking it in next week to do the necessary work to resolve this issue!!

[ATY]

iam thinking of buying a toyota corolla 1.3 or 1.4vvti . i keep hearing "stories about bad oil consumption "ie they use a lot ? can any one confirm these reports? iam am gonna buy a 98 or 99 model - you opinions / experiance would be appreciated . [ im also looking at a nissan almera 1.4 - as i had 2 1.4 sunnys - and no probs - ] sorry to mention the N word on here lol

My 1.8 vvti avensis uses approx 1 litre of oil every 2500 miles and has had a problem since it reached 40,000 miles. Strange thing is the handbook states that anything better than 600 miles per litre is perfectly well acceptable !!!