'07 A3 2.0t Oil Consumption

[Grant Lenahan]

M1 0W30 does nto meet ACEA A3 and is far too thin to stand up to hard use in a turbo car.

That said i ran 5w30 (mostly due to ignorance) in my 2.7t for 80k miles with zero usage... but i am very fussy about warm up, changes, etc.

read the specs. I can supply a spreadsheet if anyone wants it.

Grant
On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Jeffrey Brown wrote:

> 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.
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Grant Lenahan
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