[s-cars] Synthetic oil weight rec's

[Wylie Bean]

I'm right @ 205K right now. Consumption seems to vary from what I can see so I'm trying to pay a little closer attention to how much is being used.
We'll see.
Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6
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Wylie,
How many miles do you have on your car?  I've got 185k on my avant and have 
very low oil consumption.  My sedan, however, had some pretty serious oil 
consumption issues at 240k so at the timing belt service, I had the valve 
stem seals changed.  It went from using a over a qt/1000 miles to less than 
1/2 qt between 5000 mile changes.  My old 5ktq was the same way and we 
changed the VSS and fixed 95% of the consumtion.  Most 5 cylinders that I've 
experienced using oil have bad valve stem seals and there's little you can 
do other than change them to fix them.
BTW, I use Lubromoly synthetic 15/40 and have had zero issues with my oil. 
I've also used properly rated Elf (now Total) and Pentosynth 15/40 with good 
results.  The AAN really seems to like that weight and I use it year round.
Jason
95.5 S6a
95 S6 Pop's car
83 urq


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One reason for my switch was consumption. Using Castrol GTX 20W-50 I was 
experiencing fairly heavy consumption.  I ended up going with M1 15W50 so 
we'll see how it goes this interval.

Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6
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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 20:16:44
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Subject: Re: [s-cars] Synthetic oil weight rec's

I had plenty of lifter tick using Syntec after a hard run on my 200 10VT.
The few times I tried autocrossing the 200 (not worth it, IMHO) the lifter
tick would take as much as 1/2 hour after a run to subside. There was still
lifter tick with M1 (closest weight as possible to the Castrol, M1 15W50 vs.
Syntec 10W-50), but it was much less severe and lasted for much shorter
periods. Since then quit using Syntec. No such problems using M1 in the S6,
although there has been more consumption (as in, there is some) using
15W50. I've had no consumption running M1 10W30.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:

> My big problems with Syntec 5W50 were twofold:
>
> 1. massive lifter tick on startup after the oil change on a cold engine,
> every time.
> 2. big jump in oil consumption
>
> Observed in a sample of 3 cars- '86 5ktq with 170k, '91 200q with 120k and
> '01 VW NB from new.
>
> After that, I stopped using it.
>
> Taka
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:49 PM, mike schowengerdt <urdrquattro at yahoo.com
> >wrote:
>
> > i spend 50-60 hrs @week servicing and repairing nothing but audi-vw and
> > have used 5w50 casrtrol syntec in all turbo motors for the last ~15 
> > years
> > w/ nothing but good results............my experience, of course
> > YMMV........................m
> >
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