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!
“Runs out of oil every 6.8k miles” means what, exactly? The low oil light comes on?
Assuming it is a 5ish qt capacity, that is about 1qt per thousand miles if it were completely out and destroying the engine by the end. Burning that amount may be annoying, but is within the realm of what most manufacturers consider ok and is also why you should regularly check your oil level and top it off when needed.