A fellow MGA owner recently asked my advice regarding what he considered excessive oil use by his car. The short of it is that he appears to have an incorrect oil dipstick in his engine. I say that because he reports that after doing an oil change and putting in the prescribed amount of oil (9 pints), the oil line was still below the "full" or "max" line. So he added more oil to get to the full line. He should have just put in the 9 pints and stopped there. But I think a common "cause" of oil burning MGAs and possibly MGBs is that the average owner adds a full quart of oil when the oil level falls from the max line to the min line. Wrong! That 3/8" distance between the two lines represents only one PINT, not a quart. Your engine will quickly get rid of the extra pint and you will swear you have an oil burner. But you probably don't. Comments?