Oil
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1future
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Just had my first low oil warning today 05/12, had the car for a year and 7 months and it’s had 1 service since. 22k miles.
A3 1.5TFSI
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Flying Scotsman
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I never have had to top mine up in annual servicing...lowest it has ever got on the dipstick is 2- 3 mm below full and that was in the first year. One probable reason is seating the valves when brand new with full application of the throttle in second gear from 1,500 rpm to 6,ooo rpm and letting it run down to idle 3 times with the engine oil temperature at 100C. Still check level about every 3 weeks on a cold engine, even with this lack of consumption. Yearly mileage 10K
Had to top my S3 up last week. I do 9 k miles servicing and about 7k in at the mo. This is the first year my car has been doing shorter runs (commute went from 90 miles to 7) never had to top up with longer commute.
1future
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About 4k, it was full last time I checked and last night there was minimal oil on the dipstick... Could just be normal but could also have something to do with a bird that decided to fly into my right wing and scattered feathers on my grill and radiator
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I find the dipstick quite poor to get an accurate reading most times I check.
Using Millers oil and not really topped up, 6k a year mileage.
Using Millers oil and not really topped up, 6k a year mileage.
If you mean it can be awkward to see the oil on the dipstick then I absolutely agree!
This is the first car I've owned that has a black dipstick which does not make it easy to immediately see where the oil is. All my previous cars have had silver dipsticks so was much easier to see the oil level.
That's around 1 litre in 4000 miles on a fully loosened up engine..........doesn't sound normal to me.
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By "seating the valves" I assume you mean "bedding in the piston rings".
Mine dropped from full to 1/3 on the dipstick in 9000 miles between services.
Always check the oil level (cold) after anyone else services your engine.
Never had to top mine up. Never seems to move on the dipstick either, sits in the middle. It gets changed once a year and it's low mileage though.
...still got the free 1L oil top-up in the boot from day one Does it go 'off'' ? Should probably check I guess.
...still got the free 1L oil top-up in the boot from day one
Does it go 'off'' ? Should probably check I guess.
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Never had to top mine up. Never seems to move on the dipstick either, sits in the middle. It gets changed once a year and it's low mileage though.
...still got the free 1L oil top-up in the boot from day one
I think manufacturers state 5 years on unopened bottles.
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...the only date on the bottle is from a couple of months before I picked it up. Guessing that’s the date it was made/bottled.
I’ll probably just keep it in the boot in case I need a quick top-up.
