Excess oil consumption
04-15-2014, 06:01 PM
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4k is completely normal for a quart. Some BMW TT V8s will use a quart every 2k, and I've gotten the "new" Hemi to go through a quart in about a thousand.
It depends how hard you drive. The harder you drive, the more oil it will use, both through the PCV and through the breather hose. Take the bypass elbow off your blower and you'll find it. It will REEK of oil when you remove that. I can't wait to get my hands on a spare blower from a 3.0T. I bet the intake plenum/manifold, intercooler cores and possibly the rotors will be coated in either oil or burnt on oil residue.
It depends how hard you drive. The harder you drive, the more oil it will use, both through the PCV and through the breather hose. Take the bypass elbow off your blower and you'll find it. It will REEK of oil when you remove that. I can't wait to get my hands on a spare blower from a 3.0T. I bet the intake plenum/manifold, intercooler cores and possibly the rotors will be coated in either oil or burnt on oil residue.
04-15-2014, 06:45 PM
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I'm down about half a quart in 1200 miles right now. Nobody beats on a car the way I do, with WOT, high rpms and hard braking constantly, so I wouldn't expect anybody else to use oil as fast, but it is possible. Thats why when Audi says 4k miles is normal, they're telling the truth. It just depends on the driver.
04-15-2014, 07:54 PM
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Makes sense. In daily-driving mode, I use no oil at all. When I took it to the track for an HPDE day, the electronic level went down by a third. I suspect, as MikeL postulates, that it's not going past the rings but is being blown out through the PCV and/or breather hose. The underside of my hood is coated with carbon.
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From my reading here, I think the oil consumption issues were pretty much resolved by then. I had a 2008 2.0 that needed rings replaced. Now I have a 2015. It is down about 60% in 8,000 miles. No complaints with that.
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