I have a 79 300td non turbo diesel wagon.How much oil on average should it burn between oil changes?It has around 250000 miles on it.Thanks-Daniel

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1979 300TD wagon(Soon to have grease tank!)

0 in a perfect world. 1-2quarts per 3000miles would be acceptable to me. 3 would be pushing it and 4+ would be producing noticeable blue smoke out the exhaust.

Most of the lost oil is usually through external leakage onto the ground.

It's amazing how much less oil I "burn" after I replaced my oil pan gasket and filter housing gasket.

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86 190D N/A 2.5L Auto 265k "Ruby" -Sold-
79 300D 242k "Condi" my first -sold- RIP
2013 chevy sonic hatchback - had to for work

in between oil changes the most i've topped off is a little less than 1L.

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1985 230E - now my daily driver...

There will be no standard for an engine with miles. So much depends on frequency of oil changes, quality and viscosity of oil , length of average trips and usage to determine.. At a true 250k 1500 per quart would be nice and reasonable in my mind. . You could be higher or lower at that milage though.
I am not too happy at below a quart of oil per thousand unless there are leaks causing some of it. . I think there are original engines out there that may not add any oil at 250 k original accurate accumulated milage between changes,