[justdev]

Originally Posted by Benggolf

By the way, is yours a manual transmisson/ Do you downshift a lot?

Since your car is still under warranty, you might want to at least report your observations to the selling dealer.

Keep us posted.

I don't downshift at all, I only use my brakes to slow down, better to replace the brakes more often than wear out the gearbox.

Thanks, I took your advice and informed the dealership. Taking the car there tomorrow, they're going to top it up and open an observation report. They want me to check the oil level every 500Km and report it in the service book. Apparently this will be necessary if there is to be any warranty claim.

Originally Posted by bkrell

Hmmm, this is a topic I want to watch.... What kind of driving do you do???

I do mostly freeway traveling, traveling at about 120Kmph

Originally Posted by Blackout

here is a question do you check before or after u turn the engine over cause if its after wait about one or two hours

When I do check its always when the engine is cold and on a level surface.

Originally Posted by doctordoom

haha are you checking the level so often that you're losing oil by pulling it up on the dipstick and removing it constantly? is it significantly lower or is it just like a millimeter lower on the dipstick? if it's stable in the correct range, don't worry about it fluctuating a millimeter here and there.

Ha ha, yeah I wish that where the case, but since I've had the car, the level has dropped from about the 3/4 mark to now just above the low level mark, and that all in the space of 5500Km, not good.