VTEC Oil usage

Ollie's Gadgets · 1 May 2007 at 13:45

My car (x reg Accord 2.0 se executive) seems to be burning around 1/2 litre per 1000 miles, which seems like a lot. I tend to use the revs and often go into vtec. Is this above normal?

How much do you vtec'ers on here use? Does oil used increase the more you go into the vtec rev range?

Six6siX · 1 May 2007 at 13:50

Interesting explanation here:

http://preludeuk.forumup.com/viewtopic.php?t=5996&highlight=&mforum=preludeuk

I've not had mine long enough to give an estimate on how much it uses

merlin · 1 May 2007 at 13:51

They do burn oil - they're actually supposed to burn oil.

As for how much - well that varies from car to car.

Nothing to worry about.

Bobbler · 1 May 2007 at 13:58

Both my ITR and VTI used plenty oil, they where both basically in the VTEC zone whenever traffic/conditions would allow

Like merlin says, nothing to worry about.

sswats · 1 May 2007 at 16:52

On my integra I think it almost lasted the whole 9000 mile service. just a small top up was needed.

DannyDan · 1 May 2007 at 20:01

Ollie's Gadgets said:
My car (x reg Accord 2.0 se executive) seems to be burning around 1/2 litre per 1000 miles, which seems like a lot. I tend to use the revs and often go into vtec. Is this above normal?

How much do you vtec'ers on here use? Does oil used increase the more you go into the vtec rev range?

I've not had to top up the oil in my car (exactly the same as yours) at all in ~15k miles. I probably didn't use VTEC all that much in those miles though.

I've started thrashing it a bit more recently so I'll have to keep an eye on it

Hate · 1 May 2007 at 20:05

thats not performace VTEC, so you can't really compare with other VTEC owners.

I wouldn't think VTEC-E engines burned *that* much oil

Dolph · 1 May 2007 at 22:31

sswats said:
On my integra I think it almost lasted the whole 9000 mile service. just a small top up was needed.

It depends really I think. On my VTi, when I first had it (about 65k on the clock), it would happily go between services (6k) without any topping up at all, however as the mileage increased (It's now on 135k) it's certainly using oil between services, not enough to be a major concern, but it's there. As said, it's nothing to worry about, it's just the way they are.