A quick google reveals high oil consumption c100k miles. May be that these reports are from the US where it may be a different engine? I thought the Americans changed their oil every month (or two) so it can't be blamed on lack of lubrication.

So is the 1.6 GDI used in other models best avoided as well?

Different engine altogether.

The 1.2 is a 3cyl and has had some oil related problems.

The 1.6 is 4 cyl aka sportage and ceed. (and others) and hyundai variants too.

The 1.2 is a n/a 4 cyl.

The only (petrol) turbo engine offered on the i20 is a (3 cyl) 1.0 with a choice of 100 or 120bhp. Our Hyundai Bayon has the 120bhp (mild hybrid) vision mated to a 7 speed DCT. Not sure about issues, but then I haven't looked and it is a Motability car which we will have for a maximum of 3 years and with all servicing/repairs taken care of by them.

We've had it since Nov '23, and while not overly enamoured with the DCT, there have been no reliability issues and the engine is a cracker with plenty of muscle from very low revs.

BTW, you'd have to go back to the first gen i20 to get a n/a 1.6. If you don't trust the 1.0 turbo, your (petrol) engine choice for that age/gen i20 is the aforementioned n/a 1.2 with 84bhp or a n/a 1.4 with 100bhp (both very reliable)

Edited by badbusdriver on 27/03/2025 at 16:44