Oil Question

Don't use either to be honest , both get used at bonkers rate in these engines.
Fuchs titan pro 5w40 fully synthetic ester is far better and not bonkers expensive , my BUL is a low mileage engine and uses 5w30 like its olive oil, titan pro has dropped consumption a lot , far more user friendly frankly, there's using oil and using oil.
Would'nt go back to anything else now.

You must be one of the lucky owners then.
The BUL engines are not known to suffer from the dreaded oil consumption issues that has been causing so many probs , but like all the 2.0tfsi 's in B7 they do use it all the same, how much does vary from car to car.
Audi do quote official consumption figures can be as low as 0.5 ltr per 1000klm to be normal which does really set the starting point for what is excessive consumption.

I don't check milage to oil consumption anymore as such , but check oil level weekly without fail for normal usage.
My old bus is on 76k miles and uses a lot less than it used to when sticking with the 5w30 .
To outline why each car varies so much , I purchased my car 5 years ago with 29k on the clock one owner and within 12 months audi had fitted a new short motor under warranty due to high oil consumption, even with that the consumption was the same until I changed to 5w40 ester based.
It uses it but now where near as much , but when I did briefly go back to the "other stuff" oil consumption was very poor again.

So either you are one of the minority that have really good oil consumption or maybe you don't really use the engine to its designed potential.
Just " normal pootling around " will extended oil topping a lot , drive a bit more spirited and it will drop , sometimes a lot.
I not suggesting mad driving , just giving the engine something to do rather than just going through the motions.

carbon build kills these engines aswell, unless you work the engine it wont get burnt off, but when you work the engine the oil get's used......simple as that.
just my input from 5 years ownership.

have a good one chap

I think you should consider yourself to be fortunate to have an engine that consumes such meagre volumes of oil, I wish my old bus was the same.
I do still think that all you lot that don't have high oil consumption with their engines are in the minority to be honest, but hey good luck to you all .

rob