# Missing oil

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/missing-oil/59431>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [January 2, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/missing-oil/59431 "2011-01-02T22:43:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![grommit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@grommit](https://community.cartalk.com/u/grommit)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/missing-oil/59431/1 "2011-01-02T22:43:04Z")

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I ran over something on the freeway and took my car for a check up, i was told that i had an oil leak although there were 2 possible places, i had the oil pan re sealed as well as a new head gasket placed (& a few other things) , now my car appears to be losing 1 qt per 1000 miles, i cannot see any oilspots (parked it in the same place every day + placed paper underneath) cannot see any smoke in the exhaust, no funny smells and everything else seems fine, The Mazda garage i went too told me that my model usually burned upto 1 qt per 1000 miles, which seemed strange as i had no leaks period for the first 150,000 miles. i would love some possible ideas to try and solve this problem. Thanks