'07 A3 2.0t Oil Consumption

[Wylie Bean]

Jeffrey pondered:

"Howdy,

Is there any sort of established "normal" oil consumption for the 2.0t
engine on my 2007 A3 (USA)?"

-- 
Jeffrey Brown
jeffrey.r.brown at gmail.com

-snip-

Jeff,
I guess the only question I have is how have you driven the car (I'm assuming you've owned it since new)? Any long trips? Mostly around town? If you're rather light on the go pedal you may have never properly seated the rings. We had a car in the Audi dealership I worked at a few moons ago that had basically been babied all its life and it used oil like there was a hole in the oil pan. The rings had never been seated properly and there was tremendous blow-by. Also, I've heard tell of there being bad cases of gunky buildup on the backs of the valves on the FSI engines because of the lack of fuel to wash them clean.  People have added Sea-Foam (I still want to do this) to their intake tract to clean the backs of the valves) to clean them up.  This could be the culprit in both your loud valve issue (we had it too on our '08 Q7 3.6) and oil usage.  We skimped on the grade of fuel at the outset when it was $4/gal, but a couple of bottles of Techron, almost exclusive use of Shell Premium fuel, and a trip to FL and back from NC cured ours.
Maybe that helps?

Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6
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