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Audace Oil consumption

..my new V85 oil consumption was 0.6 liter/1000km -no visible smoking. Right plug very sooty.. Got new cylinder/piston on right side under warranty. Now it works!
Reason for consumption was wrongly assembled oil ring -both rails and expander ring gap was in same placement :eek:

-KG-
That gives me kinda hope. But i guess my dealer would have seen that taking the engine apart. And my plugs were white and dry...
 
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Update: Got it back 1.5 weeks ago. New cylinders, pistons and intake valves (I hope this is the right word).

330 km/205mi later, still enough oil in it. Problem seems to have gone, I'll keep an eye on it anyway.
 
My 2016 Audace has not burned oil from new. I did buy a new 2008 Kawasaki ZX10R and went for a long ride to break it in. I rode about 100 miles and the oil light lit up. Added two quarts of 10/40 and rode another 100 miles and the light came on. This went on for the next 400 miles at which point I was ready to get a new engine. The break in service was done and it never burned oil again. I suspect, as did the dealer, that Kawasaki protected the engine during break-in. Perhaps Moto Guzzi had something like this going on.
 
So when the engine is new , the oil pump can somehow pump more oil ? Humour me , how
could that possibly happen ? :) . Peter
 
Phil
Break in period is usually to get the rings to seat properly to which in the meantime the engine will ingest and burn any oil that gets past the rings into the cylinders.
 
Update: cylinders and pistons were measured and... Everything was great, inside the tolerances. Since they have no hints, they're just replacing the cylinders and pistons...
According to swiss law they have twice the chance to fix a bike under warranty before they have to give me a new one or the money back. Will get it back in a couple of weeks, ride it hard a few days. Changes are high that it's getting returned shortly afterwards...
are there any updates to this oil consumption issue?
 
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