Did you seriously know that? Did you ask the dealer what kind of oil was required? If you did know then that synth was required (as if I'd ever put anything other than synth in a new car anyway), would you have walked away?
-- Mike Smith
Did you seriously know that? Did you ask the dealer what kind of oil was required? If you did know then that synth was required (as if I'd ever put anything other than synth in a new car anyway), would you have walked away?
-- Mike Smith
The local AutoZone has Mobil 1 0W-40 for $4.99 a quart.
-- Mike Smith
Lol :), you driving a mclaren F1?
I remember talking to an Audi owner and he explained his long oil change interval.
He actually changed the oil filter regularly and then topped up the oil. His engine had 140K miles on it and ran like new or better. This was an 87 Audi
4000 Quattro normally aspirated that he owned since new.His interval might have been once a year at about 10K miles, with 2 filter changes inbetween. Oh and he used regular oil too!
Hey whatever works for you!
later, dave Reminder........ Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes. Frieda Norris
||The 1.8T in Passats have a factory oil capacity of 3.9 quarts - all other ||1.8Ts have a capacity of 4.8 quarts - that amount is enough to assist with ||lubrication and heat dissipation. It's VERY rare to see a non-Passat 1.8 ||with "turbo turds" lining the oil pan.
I think I'd be looking for a way to improve that - Oil cooler at least. What's a "Turbo Turd"?
Texas Parts Guy
You are. My frustration is having to undertake the expense of compensating for VW's manufacturing mistakes. The fact that I have money doesn't mean I'm going to just hand it out to companies.
Libby
That makes sense. It didn't occur to me that there'd be a difference in oil capacity between the two.
Craig
easy solution, sell your cars and go find something else to whine about, as long as its in another group. Anyone not gladly using sythetic oil in a decent performing engine when its recommended/required by the manufacturer is juat a fool.
LOL - A "Turbo Turd" is a small particle of carbon that originates in the turbocharger lube chamber - when the turbo stops, i.e., shutting the HOT engine off, a little bit of the oil in the turbo "cooks" and turns into a hard particle. When the engine is started, these particles wash out of the turbo through the return tube and end up in the pan. Passats are notorious for getting these into the oil pickup tube and starving the engine of oil. BUT... the ones I've worked on have been neglected - one of them had 19,000 miles between oil changes. The "oil" in the pan was like tar - you couldn't even pour it out until it was warm. Routine oil changes, ON SCHEDULE, should greatly reduce the risk of this.
Libby, I think the thing to consider, is that using dino oil, isn't going to break your engines, esp. if you are always changing every 5000km. I understand where your frustation with VW is comming from, but I would suggest that this isn't some sort of manufacturing defect. It's just that VW has decided that synthetic is better in the long run. This is something that a lot of people have decided on thier own many years ago. Most of us woudn't put dino oil in our new cars. Your Audi must almost be out of warranty, when that happens you can put whatever oil you think would be best. Hell, you could even put whatever you want to in now, and just hope nothing goes wrong. Even if its unrelated, I would bet money they would blame it on the oil. (BTW, thats a gamble I shoudn't even joke about. Getting screwed on a warranty issue would be way more expensive, than the right oil) If you still have a lot of anger directed at VW and dont want to pay them for thier "mistake" then maybe you can take your cars to some minute lube place that "protects warranties" and pay them instead, then at least VW wont be collecting on the extra cost of synthetic.
The 1.8T in Passats have a factory oil capacity of 3.9 quarts - all other
1.8Ts have a capacity of 4.8 quarts - that amount is enough to assist with lubrication and heat dissipation. It's VERY rare to see a non-Passat 1.8 with "turbo turds" lining the oil pan.Mistakes, what mistakes? All 1.8t turbo's in Germany had synthetic and required to have synthetic for all services done. I think VW only recommended dino oil for fear American Passsat owners would cry at the added cost($20) of getting the oil changed. But then again how many Passat 1.8t owners would put anything else but dino oil. Personally I run synthetic oil in all my cars(99 V6 Passat & daughters 99 1.8t Passat) , trucks(88 S10 Blazer), wife's car(99 Malibu) too. Even my Sears 24hp tractor runs synthetic! You just can beet the benefits of synthetic.
"Biz", I didn't see you posted as moderator of this group. Perhaps in your role, you could contact both dealerships -- Audi and VW -- who have been serving my vehicles since purchase. Both have been using regular oil.
[Note: any moderator, even self-appointed, who doesn't use spell check is *just* a fool]Libby
"Will"
And so here is your proof ...
sd
LOL
I didn't see him claim to be.
-- Mike Smith
The letter I got for my Passat 1.8T specifies 5k/6mos.
Yes, but who sent it?
Regards
Wolfgang
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