'07 A3 2.0t Oil Consumption

[Mark Rosenkrantz]

Personally, I still do a routine the first 1000 miles on an engine, then
change the oil.  It seems to work....so why not?

Mark Rosenkrantz

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Steve Marinello <smarinello at entouch.net>wrote:

> The '08 is driven almost exclusively in town, and the wife never winds it
> out.  The original owner, who put about 18k on it, supposedly did, however,
> 'sport' it whenever possible on a drive to work on the order of 30 miles.
> Kind of goes to the way I was told 40 years ago about how to break in a
> motor; progressively increasing the revs and intensity of acceleration over
> a few hundred miles.  Goes back to the old 'setting the rings' thing, that
> isn't supposed to be necessary anymore.
>
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