[s-cars] Subject: ticking- should i worry?

[cody at 5000tq.com]

That's an easy one. Many of them don't - simple as that. Look at a  
1.8t thats had oil changes at the factory 10k, the inside of the valve  
cover is pure gook and many of them have already blown up well shy of  
150k. Not only that but 150k isn't terribly difficult, but theres no  
way a 10k oil change engine will match the 300,000+++ capability of  
the older VAG engines.

-Cody Forbes


Quoting Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com>:

> how is it that the newer cars can go 15k-20k miles without an oil   
> change or filter change, and still make it to 150k+ miles?  by now,   
> there are a lot of them with 100k+ miles and no engine problems.
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> maybe i'll let the oil go to 10k miles, and change the filter at 5k.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
> To: Tom Winter <tom at freeskier.com>
> Cc: cody at 5000tq.com; Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com>;   
> "s-car-list at audifans.com" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:09:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Subject: ticking- should i worry?
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> With oil analysis, you can determine how long you should be keeping   
> the oil in your engine before changing it- however, you do need to   
> change the filter regularly.
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> Some synthetics can go 15k w/o breakdown, but you still need to   
> change the filter every 5k miles.
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> Taka
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