Engine oil prices WTF

'Normal Tollerences' according to Audi and they did a consumption test for 1000 miles after my last service and visit to their 'technitians'. You can have 2 identical engines and one will use oil and the other won't touch a drop, tis the way of things really.
 
Housey said:
'Normal Tollerences' according to Audi and they did a consumption test for 1000 miles after my last service and visit to their 'technitians'. You can have 2 identical engines and one will use oil and the other won't touch a drop, tis the way of things really.
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The only cars i have heard drinking that much are broken ones.

What oil weights does it use?
 
Housey said:
'Normal Tollerences' according to Audi and they did a consumption test for 1000 miles after my last service and visit to their 'technitians'. You can have 2 identical engines and one will use oil and the other won't touch a drop, tis the way of things really.
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Same with the K20 engine. 1 Litre per 1000 miles is the top their tolerances IIRC. Some drink it, some don't. It just happens that mine does :(
 
The price of basic semi synth 15w-40 oil for the 306 has doubled in 3 years. Started around £10 when I first got it to £20 last time I bought some
 
Housey said:
Both her TDi and my RS4 take the same oil and we never really buy it sensibly. I put a litre in mine today as when I checked it was just on the minimum and it does like to drink the stuff, around 3 litres between services presently.
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Thinking about it got bent over in germany for some aswell, thankfully mine doesn't use oil since i changed the turbo.


aproctor said:
The only cars i have heard drinking that much are broken ones.

What oil weights does it use?
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In an ideal world it would be clear cut, but out world is far from ideal, some engines are designed to use oil simple fact.
 
stoofa said:
I pay around £40 for 4L of oil for my car - has to conform to various standards etc.
You pays your money and you get the quality.
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Think you missed the point ;)

Running engines in is pretty much best done on only reasonable quality mineral oil. If you run an engine in on super spanky fully synthetic you end up with poor compression ring seals as it prevents the rings bedding to the honed bores properly
 
Firestar_3x said:
Thinking about it got bent over in germany for some aswell, thankfully mine doesn't use oil since i changed the turbo.





In an ideal world it would be clear cut, but out world is far from ideal, some engines are designed to use oil simple fact.
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I know there are tolerances and oil will be used to a certain degree in all cars, but your car used oil, until it was fixed i.e. the turbo.

I'm not saying engines that use oil are broken, but there is something wrong if it is using a litre every 1k miles.
 
aproctor said:
I know there are tolerances and oil will be used to a certain degree in all cars, but your car used oil, until it was fixed i.e. the turbo.

I'm not saying engines that use oil are broken, but there is something wrong if it is using a litre every 1k miles.
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Mine isn't, it has close to 20k mile service intervals....though I have moved it to 10k now.
 
I pay £16 i think for Edge 5w/30, and apart from a service since i've had the car, i've put 2 litres in it over a year this month. £32 for a years oil isn't bad.
 
I believe its down to how they're run in when you see the same engines showing wildly different oil consumption, ans also you how you drive them.

A motoway cruiser using half its revs all day compared to someone screaming to the redline for most journeys is going to show different consumption.

My car has done 20k over two years and has had ~10L in at two full services and ~10L worth of top ups (5L each service and 5L extra each year).
 
wez130 said:
I pay £16 i think for Edge 5w/30, and apart from a service since i've had the car, i've put 2 litres in it over a year this month. £32 for a years oil isn't bad.
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£16 a litre is pretty rich.

The only benefit of these leaky engines is that you only have to change the filter when doing a mini service.
 
Dup said:
I believe its down to how they're run in when you see the same engines showing wildly different oil consumption, ans also you how you drive them.

A motoway cruiser using half its revs all day compared to someone screaming to the redline for most journeys is going to show different consumption.

My car has done 20k over two years and has had ~10L in at two full services and ~10L worth of top ups (5L each service and 5L extra each year).
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:eek:
I suppose that high revs don't do it any favours in all fairness.


That's my point, they have been fudged during run in, not the end of the world, but not normal.
 
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