We bought our 2013 Subaru
We bought our 2013 Subaru outback from my brother in law with 70k miles on it for my wife (his sister).We don't drive the car much, one day she call me and said the light came on, she took a pic to show me which light. I told her how to check the oil and it was low 1/2 quart after I changed the oil at a 1000 miles. Good thing her brother bought the extended warranty, I ask him about the oil light and my brother in law said yeah I usually add 1 quart every 1000 miles or so. I took the car to the dealer and they said oh its normal to lose some oil my reply to the service writer its synthetic oil and should be change minimum 5k-and max 9k miles like Toyota or German cars if every 1000 mile I have to add 1 quart of synthetic and its 7-9$ quart in 5000 miles I pay 35$ plus the cost of oil change and you can do the math over the years. She said we'll do an oil change and consumption test and we'll go from there. After the oil change I pulled the dipstick to see how much oil the mechanic put in and it was almost at the top line, can't argue with him about that but at 3200 miles the oil level light comes on I called the dealer and they said bring it back to let them see, so I took it back the next day and they said well it failed the test and they ordered a new short block and said they would let me know when its here.
I am no shade tree mechanic. I am a mechanic. If we don't have the warranty I would have replaced the piston rings. But after burning the oil and going through catalytic converter, that will clog it later. How about the new short block? Will it will have the same problem?? !!!!!