ncgator8

Guys, has anyone had any experience with the '13 5.0? My '11 never stopped using a quart in about 4,000 miles.

71_340

Any engine, even one in perfect mechanical condition, will use a small amount of oil! Its by design because the piston rings will not completely seal!

A brand new engine (like yours) will use a little more during the break in period until the rings seat properly. Now, if your truck emits bluish/white smoke or you have an oily tailpipe, then you have a problem.

rancherlee

I'd be more worried if it didn't use any oil in 4000 miles! A quart every 4000-6000 on a modern V8 is what I'd consider prefect. Not really considered a problem, as a mechanic, until its using more than 1qt every 1500 miles for a V8. No oil use is a sign that the oil is getting deluted with fuel so if someone claims that "my truck don't burn no oil in 6000 miles" it more than likely they fuel in the oil!

zxd9

My '13 5.0L used 0.5q at 1k, and another 0.5q at 4500.

blueovelboy

I would say its not bad to burn a little oil. I know my 7.3 goes through a bit more than my 5.0 does but its all normal.

Sitedrifter

Mine used a 1/2 quart in 2500 miles which does not really have me concnered. Rather the large puff of blueish smoke when I started it one day had me concerned. However, a member noted that his father's truck did the same thing if it was only started for a minute (like moving cars in the driveway) and then sat for a couple of days. I figured that could make sense as there would be an exceptional high instance of vacuum on a cold engine and shutting it down quickly could draw oil into the cylinders. It has been 3 weeks now and the truck has sat many times 2 days or more in a row and not a puff of blue smoke anywhere. I have stopped short idling my truck and that seems to have worked.

SoK66

I was checking the oil regularly on my new '13 5.0L and didn't note any consumption at all for the first 2500 miles. Checked it yesterday at 3,500 miles and it's down nearly a quart, or whatever the lower mark on the (incredibly difficult to pull & reinsert) dipstick means. (See the OM for what I'm referring to...utterly useless). I'm an old engine tech and I HATE oil burners. Starting in the late '90s through '04 I owned three Mercedes Benz E-Class sedans, one 6 banger and two 4.3L V8s. They'd compute their oil change intervals anywhere from 12,000 to 16,000 miles. Being lease cars where MB paid the maintenance I just let the cars compute the oil changes. NONE of them ever used a drop of oil between changes. Whern we got this F150 we traded in an '07 Honda Civic Hybrid with just under 50k miles. It computed it's oil change interval at a little more than 6k miles, and IT never used any oil. So, I'm a bit aggravated I have a brand new Ford V8 that looks like it'll be an oil user.

svt2205

Not sure if I'd be concerned about it yet. My 11 5.0 has intermittently used oil between oil changes. I've got 88K on it so far and maybe 4 times it needed oil between oil changes. The rest of the time it uses none.

papa tiger

It is hard to get 40 miles per average hour of run time. 150 hours x 38 average miles per hour = 5700 miles. 200 x 38 = 7600 miles. I don't torture it past 7600 miles even if it is synthetic motor oil.

ncgator8

I have 11k miles on it now. It used NO discernible amount of oil in the first 10k miles. Truly, I believe an engine maybe will show a little consumption. The but there is in my G8 and C5, I never added oil between changes (except for the time I used Mobil1 in the C5) and my C5 has over 150k miles on it.