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

[Tom Winter]

Floyd, what did I tell ya, oil gets the list excited!

Just for the record, I find that I, like Ron, go through some oil between
changes. My "spirited" driving consists of winding out the avant on I-70 in
Colorado, usually uphill. There's a great hill right by Georgetown and it's
nice and steep, with no cops or speed traps. Same goes for heading out of
Vail eastbound on the west side of Vail Pass. (no speed traps eastbound, but
I pity the fool who speeds down the pass going west). By winding it out, I'm
talking 100mph - 130mph when the roads are empty, early in the AM. I usually
only do this going uphill, due the prolific nature of speed traps on 70
targeting those going downhill too fast (something about people who can't go
fast uphill makes them speed like crazy on the downhills, not sure why that
is?).

The car has about 160k, with a rebuilt head, rs2 exhaust manifold, stebro
exhaust and a MTM stage 1 chip.

Regardless, of the many valid opinions here, I'm sticking to my 4000-5000
mile changes. I can drop off my old oil at the town of Vail bus barn for
recycling (2 min away from my home), and it's a fast and easy way to keep my
engine happy.

Tom


On 10/31/07 10:38 AM, "cody at 5000tq.com" <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't be even remotely worried about the oil going much further.
> What I'd be worried about is all the sh!t floating arround in it thats
> getting ground through your bearings and stuck in your oil galleys. An
> oil filter is NOT as good at it's job as some would have you believe,
> not to mention then when it gets clogged up it gets bypassed anyways.
> Even just the basic resitance of the filter meadia will slightly open
> the bypass valve and let small stuff through in many cases, especially
> in 10 year old engines where the spring on the bypass isn't quite as
> strong as it used to be.
> 
> -Cody Forbes
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com>:
> 
>> i had an oil analysis done last year, after 7500 miles on mobil 1
>> 15W-50 synthetic.  based on that analysis, it appears the oil could
>> have gone at least another 5000 miles.  i decided to keep changing
>> at 7500 miles for peace of mind.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Floyd Noel <floyd.noel at gmail.com>
>> To: Robert Myers <robert at s-cars.org>
>> Cc: Tom Winter <tom at freeskier.com>; "s-car-list at audifans.com"
>> <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:42:57 AM
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Subject:  ticking- should i worry?
>> 
>> 
>> Sure enough, the oil level is low. What do the experts suggest as far
>> as mileage between oil changes? I was thinking 3000 since the s-car is
>> 
>> of the higher mileage persuasion.
>> 
>> R/S
>> Floyd Noel
>> Sgt/USMC
>> 
>> On Oct 31, 2007, at 6:21 AM, Robert Myers <robert at s-cars.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Agreed, Tom.  I would further suggest that the oil level would be
>>> better slightly _above_ the full mark.
>>> 
>>> Bob
>>> 
>>> 
>>> At 09:05 AM 10/31/2007, Tom Winter wrote:
>>>>> On 10/31/07 12:13 AM, "Noel wrote: I started hearing a ticking
>>>> sound at idle.
>>>> The engine still seems to run just fine, so I was hoping for some
>>>> help.
>>>> 
>>>> Check your oil level. A low level can result in ticking.
>>>> 
>>>> And if you are needing to add oil on a regular basis, like every
>>>> 1000 - 2000
>>>> miles, yeah, I'd start to worry about that! And wonder where all
>>>> that smoke
>>>> was coming from, too! ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> Good luck.
>>>> 
>>>> Tom
>>>> 95 S6 Avant
>>>> 
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