Well another week of wrangling with the dealer on the fate of my VX. If you are just joining the thread, I bought the '99 off of a used car lot (AutoExchange) and found on the first trip that it was burning a quart of oil every ~350mi.

The dealer has tried a couple of different "fixes" but it is still guzzling. I called again today and the dealer said has been in touch with Isuzu about the "oil consumption program" and Isuzu told him that this program was for the original owners only (at least that is what he told me)

Then to my surprise he said "go ahead and bring it in Monday and we'll get it fixed" I asked what they had planned and he said "we will go ahead and re-ring the engine per Isuzu's bulletin"

So that opens up a whole set of additional questions...

Does anyone have access / knowledge of this bulletin? I can't imagine that just dropping a new set of rings in a 100K mile engine will have a chance of seating. Which would mean at a minimum, rehoning the cylinders...ideally boring and rehoning, but then that would get into new pistons as well. Anybody know if the bulletin call for re-honing the cylinders or any other additional work?

Has anyone had the engine "re-ringed" only? It seems that most of the threads I have read, the engine was just replaced.

The whole process of tearing an engine down, then putting it back together with the same used parts (ie not doing at least honing, crank polishing, new bearings, etc) makes me pretty uneasy.

I don't know how far I will get, but I'm going to press for at least an additional 3K mile warranty on the "re-ringed" engine.

Anyway, what do the great folks on the VX forum think? Anything else I should look out for?