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Oil usage

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Gordon hindle
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 Shed a light on thisHi all I'm a newbie here hust wondering if anybody out there could tell me why my 2012 smax 2.0 tdci 140  which had 38120 miles on it when I got it. Oct 23 I had it full y serviced  then I've used it since and av now got 39700 on it. And I've kept an eye on everything and noticed the other day when when checking the oil that it needed some in anyway it took nearly 1 ltr can any one shed a light on this thanks G

 

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    They may have not put enough in when they serviced it.

    Just keep an eye on it to see if it drops again

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    Hi dave thankyou for coming back to me so promptly. That's what I've done dave it gets check every couple of weeks.as well as water etc .it's a cracking car we love it.its full history dealer etc  it's got what ever it needs then and now .do you think because of little miles that may have something to do with it sticky rings , or. psv valve clogged up .G

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