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Originally Posted by Tcoat
I was so focused on the head gasket thing I totally missed the one quart of oil statement.
There is not a hope that the car burned through all of that oil without it looking like it was doing mosquito control when going down the road. Hell, to burn through that much oil in 10K it would have to be practically pissing out the exhaust. The cats would have been clogged before even half that much was burned.
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maybe over 20k though? If it never had an oil change? That's certainly possible... as we entertain ourselves waiting for OP to return...
Subaru states ~1quart/1k miles is acceptable and normal so it's within the realm of possibility that it did actually burn up all it's oil (given it's ~5.5 quart capacity even if it was properly changed at 15k miles). That doesn't excuse neglecting to check the oil however.