Well after doing the oil change in my old Subaru on Sunday and seeing only 2 litres of used oil coming out of the engine, just to make sure that there wasn’t some old oil hiding somewhere to cause an overfull condition, instead of putting 4 litres of fresh oil into it I decided to only put 3.5.
Yesterday when I got home from work I checked the oil level and yep, it was down around half a litre from full so I topped it off. That means that my little Subaru drank 2 litres of oil in around 14 months and 5000 miles. I did some googling and discovered that Subarus are well known for using oil and not letting the driver know until the engine sh1ts itself. Anyway, no harm done, and lesson learned, check the oil more often…..