'07 A3 2.0t Oil Consumption

[Grant Lenahan]

Let's be honest. If you;re nto checking your own oil after every service 
and once a week, shame on you.

Grant

Cody Forbes wrote:
> I'll add that there is no real reason to believe that the dealership  
> "tech" (they use that term loosely for the mostly idiots that are paid  
> to rush jobs and cut corners) put the right volume of oil in. Many  
> times oil changes are given to the low man on the totem pole who needs  
> to do 10 a day to make a worthwhile paycheck so he never bothers to  
> actually check the oil level.
>
> Don't think I'm talking bad about all dealer techs, there are good  
> ones that care. It's just that the very nature of the beast that is  
> the flat-rate paying dealership which breeds idiots.
>
> -Cody (mobile)
>
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 10:35 PM, Andrée-Anne Bourgeois  
> <laraa at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>   
>> Two comments :
>>
>> 1- An heavy foot will consume more oil. That's just the way it is  
>> with a
>> turbo engine (IME).
>>
>> 2- Some cars are more prone to oil consumption, especially in city  
>> driving
>> where the oil separator device can not reach operating temperature  
>> or vacuum
>> is too strong or something else. I don't know the exact reason, but  
>> this was
>> a problem when I was at Renault, and it is a known problem on the  
>> Saab 2.3
>> engine that we own.
>>
>> More, some oils are more prone to vaporize, so this augment the  
>> preceding
>> sentences.
>>
>> We have this heavy oil consumption here in cold Montreal, it's just  
>> a fact.
>> Madame don’t have the same problem, but when I drive her car for a p 
>> eriod of
>> time, oil consumption augment significantly. Her car is a turbo  
>> Saab. My
>> 1983 urQuattro with a freshly rebuilt turbo engine drinks oil when I  
>> take
>> her to a lapping session (at the ice racing track) but is otherwise  
>> totally
>> normal.
>>
>> But every now and then, the press cars I drive are low on oil, even  
>> if they
>> are always new cars. I justify this on the driving style of the other
>> journalists, (not mine, obviously...:-)) hence my conclusions above.  
>> The
>> last one that blipped the oil light was a 2009 535xi, a six cylinder  
>> turbo
>> engine with less than 10 000 miles.
>>
>> About valve tapping, are you sure it is valve noise ? These 2.0T  
>> produce
>> much noise from the injectors, specially the direct injection newer
>> versions. Valve tap noise should clear after a few seconds, unless  
>> there is
>> a mechanical problem
>>
>> Louis-Alain
>> Montreal
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro- 
>> bounces at audifans.com] De
>> la part de Jeffrey Brown
>> Envoyé : 20 mars 2010 18:26
>> À : quattro at audifans.com
>> Objet : '07 A3 2.0t Oil Consumption
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I had a scheduled maintenance at 23,251 miles on 10/9/2009 where I
>> expressed my concerns to the service advisor who indicated that this
>> was not a problem.
>>
>> I'm not sure I'm convinced only because I have owned many cars from
>> many manufacturers and have never had oil consumption this noticeable.
>>
>> The current example would be I just now added 1 quart after driving
>> 4,000 miles since my service appointment on 10/9/2009 when I was told
>> it was not abnormal.
>>
>> Even my crappy 1983 Pontiac Bonneville didn't burn that much oil
>> (granted it DID have a myriad of other issues)
>>
>> Coolant appears clean and oil shows no sign of being contaminated w
>> coolant.  I have noticed zero oil spots in my parking space.  MPG has
>> not changed one way or the other since I bought it
>>
>> I think this is normal, but what sounds like valve tapping has been
>> pretty noticeable on this engine since new.  I had the same noises on
>> my 2003 GTI with the 1.8t (but no oil consumption issues)
>>
>> Comments and suggestions welcome.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -- 
>> Jeffrey Brown
>> jeffrey.r.brown at gmail.com
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