I recently acquired 2007 acura rl with 75k miles on it ive put 4k miles since owning the vehicle and i notice its been burning a little bit of oil in between oil changes.i change my oil every 3k miles and the car burnt through a quart and a half of oil in between that.Is that normal? If not any possible help or any advice would be greatly appreciated on how to mitgate it

 

First of all, changing that often is wasting tons of money. Today's synthetics go 10,000 easy.

Second, my daughter's 07 RL burns oil at 225,000 miles, but not that much. Suspect the prior owner(s) didn't care for the car properly.

 

Try doing the next few oil changes with Valvoline Restore & Protect. Many have reported this helps piston ring seals which reduces oil getting pushed up into the combustion chamber.

Oil is cheaper than metal.

 

I found cleaning the PCV on the cam cover helped on my BB8 Prelude.

They were the first (H22A) with FRM (carbon fibre) bores and used to drink oil at higher mileages. But having too much crankcase pressure certainly didn't help either.

 

My oil changes so far have been with restore and protect. Hopefully itll help solve or atleast just reduce the burning a bit.also i drive the car hard so i think it justifies the 3k mile interval

 

I will replace the pcv and post an update on oil consumption

 

Was not aware of this product. Will use it next change and thereafter. Thanks!!

 

No problem. I honestly assumed it was snake oil at first - but there are tons of internet testimonials about it fixing oil consumption issues.

The key is you have to the next few oil changes with it and the problem gradually gets better - it's not an instant fix.

 

Is it OK with VTEC lost motion adjusters?

IIRC, one of those oil additives used to f them up. Which is why Honda says never use additives....

 

It's not an additive - it is a different type of oil altogether.

I generally never use oil additives - if the car needed them, they'd already be in the oil itself.

 

That's handy to know - or might be!

Bit of a rare product over here, by the looks of things.