Unfortunately my car has never seen a track, i do admit to keeping her high in the rpms because that’s what she likes. My “commute” is a lot of open and curvy country roads, it works well with this car, i never thought i’d drive it as much as i do. Either way, i’m at 600 miles a quart and a little anxiouspossible for sure, and Ford should have a metric for this. Are these 600 track miles, daily miles, or church miles and over what time period?
Given my sample size of two and the others I've known, as well as characteristics of the known issues, I am a skeptic about how wide spread a problem, if it exists, burning oil is.
What's obvious is there are oil issues ;-)
Unfortunately my car has never seen a track, i do admit to keeping her high in the rpms because that’s what she likes. My “commute” is a lot of open and curvy country roads, it works well with this car, i never thought i’d drive it as much as i do. Either way, i’m at 600 miles a quart and a little anxious
Have you taken it to the dealer to get it checked out? I think earlier I read that a notification went out to owners about an additional supplement around oil consumption. Can't recall how much "normal" consumption was stated. To me yours sounds excessive. I mentioned earlier in this thread (I think) that my 12 Boss 302 was consuming a similar amount as your GT350 and Ford replaced the entire long block. Afterwards.....no more heavy oil consumption.
I have not, for two reasons...1) they state you may need a quart every 500 miles in the owners manual. 2) dealer was completely unable to put my splitter on, twice. I cannot imagine them attempting an engine replacement lol.
Salesman(a buddy) said if he were me he'd take it somewhere that deals more with the high performance stuff, which I will do if it gets worse(I don't live close to one though). I just hate it because the car runs really really good, and I don't want it down half the summer for a replacement.
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I’ve had a catch can for awhile, it fills up way faster than my 16 coyote...Suggest you find another dealer to connect with and at least ask that the consumption issue get documented....in case it gets worse so it can be covered under the drive train warranty. Doubt your consumption problem will get better on its own. Seems ludicrous to me that the car is considered within spec at that rate of consumption. A consequence of the design (flat plane crank)? But.....it doesn't seem like a lot of owners are having this issue (outside of leaking oil filter and/or oil hose connections), so how can that be?
Another thought: purchase an oil catch can to help alleviate some of that oil getting into your intake. Doubt it's where most of the oil is being consumed, but will help keep your intake a little less oily and having oil burned during combustion.
BTW, I too was concerned about getting the motor replaced on my Boss, but it went very well with no side affects/problems afterwards.
I get three isn’t very telling, there were probably at least 10-12 GT350s there... those three were all I talked with. All three were weekend fun cars for their owners. None were tracked, at least not that they said. I also felt like when we were all discussing the issue we were standing together in a group... it seemed not until one in the group admitted he was having to add oil every 1k Miles that the other guys said, “me too”.... so it might be one of those things owners don’t want to discuss as the obvious negative connotation oil consumption has.that's 100% of your sample size, impactful.
My reference data:
- how many GT350 owners on our forum and how many threads talked about issues over the last 3 years here.
- Also interesting how it's been reported on facebook forum that there is one engine failure per week, yet no history of such on this web site. Should be about 50 cars a year.
- Both my GT350s, always kept topped, consumed maybe a quart total, essentially no oil, over the 8000 miles I put on them and I had a leak issue and pounded all the miles to/from/at TWS and COTA... I just saw the wet spot and worked the issue.
I'm thankful until now I've not heard of such and hope my experience is the norm, but, if we have a issue, hopefully we can get first hand debug data from those affected so we can resolve it quickly.
Curious to know if they are adding oil when they are supposed to, or just adding it when they think it looks low (between the dots, which is 1 quart).
BTW...Just checked mine...I'm a couple hundred miles from my last change, oil level is right at the same spot...