we ended up buying that 08 S8 from Toronto.
Wonderful, just brilliant. Definitly the bast high speed highway cruiser I have ever been in.
this is by far the quietest and sure footed high speed driving i have ever done. What a brilliant machine. The dual pane windows are amazing.
Had it alined on a nice hunter inground unit, and balnced the tires. Its tome for new ones but i still have a bit of driving to do on these ones. Well worrth the time and few dollars for a super smooth ride.
But, used quite a bit of oil in these 800 miles we did this weekend.
I made sure it was at the max line on the dip stick before we left, and got a low oil warning near home, so i put in half a quart to bring it back to the stock level. Really? the warning will go off with it half a quart low with a 10 litre capacity? Owners manual states wait 2 minutes for the oil to drain down. I dont think I waited that long. On the dipstick when i pulled it out the oil was at the MIN level.
No way the engine is hurt, thing pulls way too good and is very smooth. I suspect the PCV or oil mist separator contraption is to blame. Pulled the oil cap off and it has a very strong vacuum there at idle-leads me to suspect the valve is stuck open with gunk.
Does anyone have a crankcase vacuum spec for this engine ?
I could pull it off with one hand, but it definitely sucks your hand pretty hard when you try t cover the fill hole with it.
It looks like on the v10, the PCV and oil separator is right there beside the bank 1 throttle body, easily acessable…