Over the weekend I did almost 400 mway miles and the oil level was on max before I left. When I got home last night I checked the oil with the car parked in the same place and it's a fraction under minimum
The same thing happened last month when I went to Scotland, I thought I must have made a mistake when reading the oil (parked on a hill etc etc) so this time I made sure I had the car parked in the same place both times.
It's a 2003 1.8 with 70k miles on it, i've had it since 13k miles and have only had to give it very small top ups between services until now.
It doesn't smoke on start up, doesn't smoke while driving and doesn't make nasty knocking noises - can't find any leaks either
All I can think off is perhaps it's blowing past the piston rings due to wear/mileage.
Any more ideas would be welcome ! if I was more "flush" right now I would think about changing it because i'm worried that my ickle Ecotec is heading for that little place in the sky for VX engines
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