Those who say 'my car uses no oil....' are clearly ignorant of how an engine works

Some dont use enough to register on the dipstick, thats not ignorance of how an engine works and dont need to know how an engine works

some people do worry when it suddenly happens when the engine doesn`t normally do it

I can confidently say that :

My 325d uses no oil. Or at least the dipstick level does not change at all. Ever. That's based on 2.5 years, 30k miles.

30K is no distance for a modern low-revving engine and a well honed example will use very little oil. Even my old low geared higher revving TR7 requires no top-up between changes, but that has only done a mere 70,000m and has never gone more than 6,000m between changes.

I've just traded in 2012 50k 1.8 iVtec Civic and I have to say it used no oil between services.

In fact I thought it was a great engine in general, needs the revs to be high to get any power but a decent powerplant all round.

Lucky you. I'm told by Honda main agent that I'm not the only one noting high oil use.

However, I bought a 2 year oid car that initially I couldn't get moving without fuel consumption around 32mpg. I suspect it was run-in slowly using supermarket petrol. The rise of cheap fuel allowed me a tankfuls of Shell V-Power plus a series of long runs at high speed/high revs. So clearing the gung in the cylinders and wearing in all the moving parts.

I've got fuel consumption to nearly 40mpg which I find quite acceptable but am very tired of keeping revs around 4000 to 6000 on the A27/M27 especially all the stop/start roundabouts at Chichester. Wrong car for the road.

"I now have the 1.6 diesel but not impressed with economy"

Hmm- Being a dyed in the wool Honda nut I was never enthusiastic over Honda's decision to dump the 2.2 CDTI in all it's forms and hitch their wagon to the "tiddley little engines with lots of boost are better" train of thought.

Interested to hear that, reading the hype, you would expect better figures.

The thought of a CRV with a 1.6 diesel just doesn't add up to my way of thinking.

I was serously considering a new CRV, a year or so ago, but the cranky 4wd situation put me off and then the 1.6 motor put me right off.

I just sold my Civic 2.2 cdti Type S over here in france - regrettably- it was a great concept of a big torquey motor in a small grippy chassis, and I really enjoyed ragging it around the deserted D roads over here, when OH and nobody else was looking!

When I sold it, it had 54 mpg on the fuel computer readout, the payoff from the big motor in a small car.

Our current Honda Accord Type S tourer with the 178 hp 2,2 N22B Japan-built diesel is turning in about 43.5 mpg on a combination of airport runs and shopping trips.

The build quality is a a whole lot better than the UK built Honda's though.

A very nice car to drive, still able to hack it around the country roads, not quite such a hooligan motor as the Civic but a very capable long distance machine.

Small engines in big cars never did work IMHO.

Edit- Sorry! I got a bit carried away there - back to the thread subject.

The Civic at 34Kwould use a smidgen of oil between changes if run on 0w-30, on 5w- 30 used next to nothing.

The current Accord has used zero oil - nothing- the level on the stick has not changed in 5000 miles before the service and it has never gone into regen mode yet.

Edited by focussed on 18/05/2016 at 00:34