Why do you change oil so often? I'm new to Audi and diesel and aren't as experienced as you guys here. On my old car, Seat, I changed oil ones a year or approx. 18.000 km. I bought an A3 in February and drove 10.000 km since. Te dealer did 60.000 service before sale, oil change inclusive. I considered changing oil before winter, but still I have a question: why so often if the user manual states that oil should be changed every 30K km? Or should I read the user manual more carefully?
Thanks for your explanation. I didn't know of the Audi engine issues of this type.30,000 km is to long for an oil change. There have been many cases of blocked oil strainers causing oil starvation in Audi engines, all due to longlife oil servicing.
18000km is about the right annual distance for a privately owned car, oil change regime, as you are doing but please don't assume 30,000km. is good for your engine.
All I can really say is wow....
That's a like finding a whole new coal deposit in your front yard.....no need to go mining.
Plus one although my S3 doesn't drink quite as much oil as that.Once a year, in which I cover about 6k to 10k. It drinks about 500ml a month so it's forever getting some fresh oil.
Think that picture was from a tt that didnt have a change in almst 90k miles
The picture is from a 3.2, don't know if it was a TT, but it was never serviced at all.
Read about it a while back. Thing is, it apparently ran quite well...!
On top of that, an injector seal problem turned the oil in my tdi just the same way after only 4 weeks, so again, I wouldn't mess about with oil changes and longlife servicing cannot be a good thing.