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Hi. I have a 2005 zaffira 1.6 life. We bought this car from new and has done 5000 miles since sept last year when we purchased. I drove home from shopping yesterday and the engine sounded a little rough. We have just checked and the dipstick is showing no oil in the engine. There has been no indication from the oil warning light. As i have my cars serviced yearly i have never had to top up oil levels, we onlt travel around 8,000 mls a year. Is it normal for a brand new car to use this much oil. we have only towed the caravan once with the car, a round journey of around 180 miles, does it use more oil when towing?

I dont know whether to go back to dealership and have a go at them because it has run out of oil after such a short period or just to fill it up and keep shtumm. If i fill it up what oil do i use, there seems to be a lot of choice these days.

Any advice gratefully accepted. Have to do something tomoz one way or tuther.

Thanks all for your help.

Yes we have now read the hand book and it advises to check every 600 miles, as this is our first ever brand new car i had not realised that this was the case. Suppose this should be done when car was bought but there are never enough hours in the day to always do what we should. 

Annoying parts of this are that the dealer did not advise us of this even tho i explained this wa our first brand new car and was there anything to pay particular attention to and the fact that the oil warning light has not yet come on.

Looks like a trip to the spares shop tomorrow and  fill up with 5 litres of oil

I have a Vauxhall Zafira 2 litre dti elegance 2003

it does not use any oil at all between annual services

Quote: Originally posted by delta1 on 29/5/2006

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I've just checked in my handbook, and it only takes about a litre for my vehicle, between the min and max fill marks.

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