'07 A3 2.0t Oil Consumption

[Jeffrey Brown]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Wylie Bean <theringmeister at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, bought new in 2007.  Mainly around town and to and from work
(which is only a few miles).  I would say at least once a week I will
have a longer trip (e.g. couple of weeks ago I was doing 100 miles a
day highway for a week).  I def. don't baby it and will occasionally
play around on the highway in manual mode.

I think the current solution seems to be more frequent oil checks,
which is something I need to get into the habit of doing with this car
- barring any additional symptoms of course.

--jeff