mmm i haven't had any problems like that but i only have less than 500 miles on the car so far.

if anything changes *knock on wood* ill post again

 

Do you have the turbo or the V6?

If it's V6, then it's NOT normal, they should repair or warranty or even replace the car depending on how new it is.

If it's the turbo, it's normal for turbo cars to consume some oil, however, at what pace are you loosing oil. Or even how do you know? Is it just dipstick reading? Or the oil that comes out is always significantly less than what you put in?

 

I have the 2.0T, I checked my oil when i had maybe 600 miles all was well. I now have 2800 miles still on the factory oil. I think i will go and check the oil now, and see... The oil level is good. But its a good thin i have a scheduled change for next thurs. That oil is pretty black.

 

I have the 3.8 Track. I changed my oil at 1200 miles and it was very very black. Strange on such a low mileage car.

Haven't had any problems with oil consumption.

 

i got my oil changed yesterday and we put it up on the lift and found oil leaking down the front of my engine! not like super bad, but its definately wet, it got the crossmember thing that goes across under the tranny pretty much soaked.

either way i'm taking it in next week, my 1,600 mile car shouldnt be leaking oil.

 

Your oil is supposed to be black. That means it's working.

 

No, that means it's being contaminated. Unless you're driving in a really dusty climate (ie. lots of dirt roads) it shouldn't be really dirty after 5,000 km.

Although different people have different ideas of what dirty is, so take it all with a grain of salt.

 

I checked my oil the day I bought it and it was on the full line. dropped the oil at 3500KM and it was still at the full line..... came out black as a diesel oil (which worried me at first, as a 1st year mechanic I do a lot of oil changes and this was my worst so far)

not burning any oil yet, at 6200kms now it's still at the mark I left it at after first oil change. It's pretty black already though. not as bad as the first change, but I think 3-4k km oil changes are a good idea. I get semi synthetic 5/20 for $2.50ca/L and my filter is only $3.

works out to be cheap enough to drop the oil every 3k kms and not worry about the blackness

 

I think 3-4k km oil changes are a good idea.

For the first oil change this is exactly what I did. Actually at the 2,500 km mark. I'm going to likely get my next at the 5,000 but I think this might be too late.

Main reason is I know there is a lot of crap inside the engine that needs to get cleaned up after manufacturing the engine.

Obviously the turbos are quite durable, but coming from the VW/Audi world, and having twin K03's, as they aged, seals were popping and it didn't take long after ECU tuning and maxing them out to start burning oil.

$30 can save you, if your not planning on doing a big turbo upgrade, $1,000's in the future. Before going ECU tune, I would recommend a nice intercooler setup as well.

 

Shouldn't be burning any...

 

I'm over kill. On my tib i do it every 3000 miles. I never let the oil get to that burning smell when it starts to loose its viscosity. But I red line a lot, so I figure better always have clean mobile 1 to be safe.

I just changed it yesterday and ran my finger inside the oil fill spot and rubbed black residue off the inside of the motor??? I was always told to not use a "flush" I try to run a extra quart of mobile 1 after everything drains out. But whats that black residue?

 

I guess it depends on how black you're talking? do you mean like when you wipe it on the cloth it's super black or just when you look at it? because everytime i change my oil, it looks black coming out, but when i wipe it, it's still golden (which makes me wonder why not keep it in longer LOL).

 

I try to have the oil still looking nice. it was $32 for 5 qts of mobile 1 for 75000+ and fram filter, $6 for the extra quart to run through for my overkill,. wroth it for the every 3000 miles. Thats like 120-180 a year to make sure your car doesnt ever have engine problems due to lub.

 

If you're putting in mobile 1 oil, why not use a mobile 1 filter also?

 

not available at walmart and its cheaper there.

 

I bought mine @ walmart. FRAM is cheaper, but it doesn't work not nearly as well. I think it stops like 89% where as mobile 1 stops 99.1%. I took a look at what each filter claimed to filter out, mainly to justify the price. Those cheap fram filters worried me.

 

I don't get the cheap fram filter. I spent $7, bought the one with the grip. The mobile one is like 17. The super tech, walmart brand, is 2.96. Not gonna go that cheap but 17 is too much seeing as how I change my oil right around 3,000 miles.

 

Man that is expensive. The walmarts here sell mobile 1 for $12. And I thought that was a bit much. Fram is about the same price. I change my oil every 6000 miles which is what Honda recommends and my oil life monitor is set @. With mobile 1 or Honda oil (sometimes I let them change it so they can check my tires and brakes), there is no break down in 6000 miles.

 

My 3.8 has just turned 4000 kilometers, puffs blue on start up, oil is black, and was down 2 litres after 3500 kilometers. I cannot believe this is normal.

 

Not at all,take it in. You can often see burning oil by examining the spark plugs. Unless you drive something with a rotary engine,you should not consume oil like that. (I had an RX7 and I had to add a quart of oil with every fill up because there was a little pump on the side of the carburetor that pumped oil into the float bowl. One time it broke so I just put a quart of oil in the gas tank each fill up until I could afford to replace it.)

 

yes 5-6 of them in china 2.0t heaps of blow by all low k's all pre mods most ran then in cruising on the highway

the sad part thats out of 20 odd cars i saw!

 

My mistake,I said it was not normal. What I should have said is,its not ACCEPTABLE. For all I know,it could be NORMAL.

 

i think turbo cars burn a bit more non turbos

 

I pulled the intake manifold on my 3.8, and found LOTS of oil coming into the manifold from the valve cover vents.

This was a bad problem on the mazdaspeed platform, and my genesis was as bad or worse.

on the plus side, it was clean oil.

mine is a 3.8 with 16,000 miles.

 

My 3.8 consumes oil, and most of it is on the Intake Manifold, thats why I installed a catch can. It happens more now because I have the INJEN CAI and the hose from the right valve cover is very short and it sucks a lot of oil thru it during acceleration. And I drive my car hard.

Depends on how you drive your car, if you have intake or not, and specially what oil you use.

I consider it normal because the engine its not consuming oil, the oil is actually getting on the combustion chamber by the intake manifold. There are a few ways to prevent this. but removing the hoses that go from the heads to the intake and manifold its not one of them, just in case anyone is thinking about that, it will cure the problem but the vacuum it creates actually helps a lot, even with horsepower, so dont do it.

So its normal depending in a lot of factors. If the problem are the rings, then its not normal. If the oil is going thru your intake manifold there are some things that you can do, there are some filters you can put between the hoses and they will pickup the oil, the Grimspeed Oil separator would be great if they make it for the Genesis! <--- Read this Grimspeed!!!

 

Yes I have a problem with oil burning on my 2012 genesis with a 5.0 liter engine. I bought the car new in Indiana. I have taken it to the dealer in Indiana and Naples Florida. Both places are giving me the run around. They are telling that it is normal for a car with 50k miles to burn a quart of oil every thousand miles,because it's a high performance engine. My tail pipes are total black. I don't race the car. Actually I'm a grandpa driver. I'm not a hot rod driver.so I don't believe them. I have asked both dealers to do a hydro test. They tell me that they don't have testing equipment. Whenever I take the car in for an oil change to them, they never list my complaint on their invoice. They tell me that they made a note of it on their computer. I asked them why isn't it on my statement.all they would have to do is apolution test. I guess I need to go to there president for it seems like a nationwide misleading to the public.

 

What weight and brand of oil are you using? And the qt every 1000 miles is the standard for oil burning or not and yes I think that is way too high.

 

That is normal. Ford on there older 4.6 and 5.4 engines did the same thing. The black on the tailpipes I know Hyundai run rather rich. I see it on the new azeras and the older 3.8 gdi genesis sedan.

 

That type of oil consumption is not at all normal for any piston engine. My old Stealth had around 178k miles on it when I traded it and it barely used any oil between oil changes (3K intervals). This was a NA 3.0 24 valve Mitsu engine.

My 2.0T has over 75k miles on it and I do not use any perceptible oil between changes either. I have been doing 4k mile change intervals. The Theta is considered a "loose" engine, so a little oil use would not be surprising. A quart in a thousand miles seems like something is wrong. I would look at my plugs first and then maybe compression test it.

 

I'm at 43k miles zero oil burning issues with regular 3-5k mile oil changes with Mobil 1 full synthetic 5-30 with only genuine Hyundai oil filters. 2013 2.0T and modded.

 

Yep. I use Hyundai filters and Mobil 1 0w - 40 Euro blend. I have been thinking of extending that to 5k OCI, but I do very little highway driving so I will stick with the 4k OCI. I would rather "waste" money on oil and filters than engine repairs