Oil... type and change intervals

[superba]

Hi Dan,

Before you embark on your own custom program you ought to see how it might
affect Audi's warranty.  It would be a shame to nullify your warranty right
out of the box.

HST, 10K seems to be a very long interval.  There's probably some fine print
that says the 10K is based on your driving the car "lots of miles".  The
interval ought to be considerably shorter if your trips are short, for the
engine does not have time to become suitably hot for long enough to
evaporate the condensate and leakage that inevitably migrates to the sump.

Someone that knows more about this than I ought to post on this subject.

Congratulations on having a brand new, complete with new smell, new car.

Cheers!

Jim Jordan

>  Message: 9
>  Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:48:10 -0800 (PST)
>  From: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>
>  Subject: Oil...
>  To: quattro at audifans.com
>  Message-ID: <20031218164810.70470.qmail at web40306.mail.yahoo.com>
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>  Hi, as I am coming up on my first oil change (I am strictly following
>  Audi's guidelines here), I'm interested in thoughts on synthetic oil. I
>  have never used it and never had any problems with previous cars using
>  dino oil. My question is, with Audi recommending 10k between changes
>  (based on the free scheduled maintenance at 5k, 15k, etc.) I am a little
>  concerned about using the dino oil if I am not going to do
>  interim changes
>  (in the past I have strictly adhered to 3k - 5k oil and filter changes
>  using regular oil). So, I guess my choices are -
>
>  1 - Stay with Audi's recommendations on change interval and oil
>  (since the
>       car came with dino oil, I assume that is their recommendation...)
>
>  2 - The above but use synthetic oil.
>
>  3 - Perform interim changes every 3k - 5k using dino oil.
>
>  4 - The above using synthetic.
>
>  I plan to keep the car indefinitely - next car is my wife's, and then the
>  college years will be starting............
>
>  Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
>
>  Dan D
>  '04 A4 1.8T q MT-6
>  Central NJ USA
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