Burns Oil

[amitaj]

I heard that Toyota Fortuners burns oil like crazy? Is it true? I mean recently my friend bought this car and we didn’t feel anything like that. May be because it’s new. Please share your comment upon this.

[rattan]

Yes it does. I will share my experience upon this. I bought Fortuner 3 years back. I was happy when I bought it. First of all, the oil maintenance anyways of this car is expensive if you compare it with Toyota cars. But is fine, I suppose. Few months back, I gave my car for the regular servicing. My mindset was to pay the regular amount that I generally pay for the servicing. Just the next day, the dealer calls me and tells me that there the oil in the engine was burning and that they have to change the oil. I said its fine! Not only that, then they mentioned that because the oil was burning the engine is overheated and the radiator of the car has been failed, so they have to replace the radiator. I thought the replacement will be under warranty, which by the way wasn’t and they took good money from me for this.

I still took my car back and kept myself busy with my normal things. After few days, my wife took my car and the car suddenly went off. Shut down! The engine light was on. Somehow she managed to call the recovery people and took the car to the dealer. They call me and tell me that the water pump is damaged as the oil was leaking. That’s it! I got really angry! I mean how is it even possible? Sometimes the oil was burning, sometimes it’s leaking! I complaint directly to the Toyota executive person, and got my car services properly free of cost. They apologized to me and they told me that the oil burning seemed to be a common problem in Fortuner, and I was not the only customer saying that. So yes, oil burning is quite an issue in Fortuner. If you are planning to buy, make sure to ask the Toyota people about the current status on oil burning issue in this car.

[amitaj]

Thanks for sharing you expreience rattan. That counts Dude!