My friend bought a Rio at CarMax and has just now (that it’s out of warranty and lemon law) discovered it runs out of oil every 1K miles. Not a leak (at least no evidence of one) and the interwebs is telling us these cars just do that sometimes: they burn through the oil.
Is this fixable? Is this just how this car is going to be? She does put a LOT of miles on it, and driving around with a case of ool sounds prohibitively expensive. Help, please!
I’m not sure what the spec is with Kia, but with GM, the oil consumption is 1qt per 2k miles. Your friend needs to do a better job at changing the oil and keeping the oil level checked. The level should be checked every time that every fuel fill up.