u/BustedLeg000

Our daughter will start Kindergarten in Fall 2027. We expect to relocate to Boulder County within the year. I've been reading up on Choice Enrollment and thought maybe someone could chime in on the process.

We'd like to rent a furnished place for a few months at the end of this year, during the Choice Enrollment window, to get the lay of the land and figure out where we want to rent long-term. Looking at BVSD's website, it sounds like we'd meet the application requirements as long as we can provide a signed lease. Would it matter if that lease is only for a few months and then we'd be transitioning to a longer lease at another address within the county?

We bought our 2020 Hyundai Santa Fe w/ the 2.4L Theta II engine new. I've taken pretty good care of the car over it's lifetime. Not sure if this is relevant or not but within the first 5,000 miles we noticed that occasionally the engine would stutter under acceleration. We first noticed this in the mountains when driving uphill.

The stutter only happened occasionally and the car never threw a CEL so there wasn't much to be done for it. We did take it to the dealership early on but they couldn't reproduce the issue and without a CEL there wasn't anything to go on.

Fast forward to the present. Our Santa Fe now has 119,000 miles on it. The engine stutter that used to happen only very occasionally and during acceleration has been occurring more frequently and during idle at stop lights. Still hasn't thrown a CEL yet. I just replaced the PCV valve and this seems to have helped significantly but the problem isn't eliminated entirely. Spark plugs were replaced at 100k.

During a recent dip stick check I noticed there was basically nothing on the stick. This shocked me! Until the last few oil changes the engine never burned any oil (I do all the services). For the last few, I noticed only 4 quarts coming out (5.1 quarts at full) at the 7,500 mile mark. Suddenly the oil loss seems severe! I added about 1.5 quarts to bring the line on the dip stick to 3/4 full. Added another 1/2 quart after probably a few hundred miles. I haven't been keeping tight tabs on this because the car has been great but I'm realizing now there is a fairly serious issue and it needs attention. Perhaps another sign that oil is passing into the combustion chamber is the fact that the used oil at the last change smelled like gasoline. This is a recent development.

Some internet sleuthing shows that oil consumption can be an issue with these Hyundai engines. I'd already purchased Valvoline Restore & Protect oil for my next change coming up in a thousand miles. However, I'm thinking I need to do a piston soak with Berryman B-12. We have a thousand mile road trip coming up in three weeks and I'd really like to avoid having this kind of oil consumption going on. I've seen comments indicating the piston soak/R&P oil combo helps significantly or entirely eliminates the oil consumption issue.

I know how to do the basics on my car but I'm no mechanic so I thought it was worth a post here in case there are other things I should be thinking about. Thank you in advance!