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My 99 Chevy Prizm uses a quart of oil about every 300 miles. No leaks or smoke. Any ideas?

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Well, if you don't have any leaks then your car is using oil somehow. Thats a lot of oil to be loosing so I would start be pulling out all the spark plugs and checking to see if they look normal. Normal is a nice tan color. Not normal would have lots of white ash or black sooty material. If thats the case, you'll likely have to tear down the motor to fix it.

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