Discovered the Yaris dipstick was totally dry yesterday...

[firebird1999us]

Originally Posted by zoidberg444

When my engine started using oil i'm not 100% sure if i saw it or not but i thought i saw my oil light flicker for a second while going round a corner to fast. In that case i put over a litre of oil in it. I think that was around 60,000 miles. My car is on 170,000 now. Mine is using about 700ml every 1000 miles. I've never seen any smoke out of mine or any others that burn oil.

You still had about 2 litres of oil in the sump so you probably got away with it.

I do find Toyota engines quite puzzling in that despite their oil burning. I've seen ones that had oil burning issues for hundreds of thousands of miles and the original factory cross hatching is still on the inside of the cylinder. New rings and a clean up and they probably have another couple hundred thousand miles in them.

I switched to 10w30 for now... car runs fine I'll just be more vigilant about it. I've determined I'm going to drive it as far as I can and replace the engine when things go south - which will hopefully be a long ways off!

Speaking of which I've seen engines with reasonable mileage on ebay for fairly cheap... can anyone suggest a reputable place to buy a new engine from when the time comes? I'm just looking to do a direct replacement not a corolla swap or anything.