'07 A3 2.0t Oil Consumption

[Jeffrey Brown]

Interesting comments on the oil weight.  Where I come from, or at
least my knowledge of certain cars, is that you always put in the
lowest viscosity oil you can get your hands on, and this is typically
Mobil 1 0w-30.

What you describe almost sounds to me like you are making up for bad
seals or bad tolerances by increasing the oil viscosity at the risk
of increasing cold weather and start-up engine wear, and especially in
a turbo car.

My knowledge is specifically about Volvos and older ones (80's-90's
200s, 700s, 900s, etc) both gas and diesel.  There is a guy I know of
who
specializes in the volvo D24 and D24t engines (which is VW sourced 6
cylinder) that uses mobil 1 0w-30 in these engines (not the "diesel"
grade oil)
and changes at 25,000 mile intervals (not counting filter changed I
think every 10k).  He's got empirical data to back up this behavior,
but I admit this is
an extreme example.

I guess what I am curious about is whether the conventional wisdom in
audi land is not consistent with this wisdom, and that it is common
for people
to use heavier weight oils in general, or for specific applications, etc?

In my case, I was kind of surprised when I found out 0w-30 is not a
"supported" oil for my A3

--jeff

> Actually, that's not entirely true...both the urq and the S6 lost a quart of oil
> fast after the idiots at the dealer put 0W40 new spec oil into them, even though I
> had provided the 5W50 and filters.  Used the filters, but not the oil.  Brainless
> incompetents.  First oil change with the right oil, they both lost a little, but
> since then, nothing  after 3000-4500 miles each oil change.