'07 A3 2.0t Oil Consumption

[Huw Powell]

Christopher G. Mason wrote:
> On 2:59 PM, Jeffrey Brown wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Is there any sort of established "normal" oil consumption for the 2.0t
>> engine on my 2007 A3 (USA)?
>>
>> On a couple of occasions since I have owned it, I have gotten the oil
>> light on the dash, have quickly stopped, and found that the dipstick
>> was reading less than "min".  On both occasions I have topped off with
>> about 1 quart of oil to rectify the situation.
>>
> 
> Former owner of a 2006 Jetta GLI here (same engine as the A3, the 
> infamous BPY 2.0T). My car drank approximately 1 quart ever 5000 miles. 
> This was with a proper break in and use of the correct VW 502.00 
> approved 5W-40 oil. According to VW (and Audi), up to 1 quart per 1000 
> miles (!) is no cause for alarm....  

All my Audis have been oil pigs in my opinion - that is, using a quart 
in under 5k miles (of course, the newest is now old enough to drink 
alcohol stateside).  There may be reasons why the old 5-pot did so, but 
still, a modern engine should not require the owner to dump a quart of 
oil in at every other fuel-up.

That said, I gave my chubby truck it's tri-annual oil change (!) (I 
swear, it only went a thousand miles!) and, um, not much came out.

Many years ago I had my coupe worked on next door at Carworks, where 
part of any work is the "shop report", basically a quick check of fluids 
and that sort of thing.  'Twas down 3 quarts.  Still runs great.

-- 
Huw Powell

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