Oil...

[John Larson]

There are, somewhere in the archives (and probably elsewhere), discussions
about NOT changine the breakin oil until the specified time.  Failure to
properly break in seems to result in high oil consumption for the life of
the engine.  Might want to persue this before making any kind of commitment
to your own schedule.  HTH, John

You wrote:
"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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