Oil low warning

[ama]

Have no idea what the Minimum to Maximum oil level indication volume equates in the 2.0 oil burner. I’d certainly check before pouring in large quantities as over-fill can be problematic.

Have to say the 2.0 “40”engines I drove in Germany (very low km) and the hire “40” vehicle a few weeks ago (16k Miles) sounded and felt quite rough. Colleague mentioned one “40” he had with higher mileage (approx 20000 km) smoothed out a lot but he was still tipping in oil every 1000 or so km in a hire car . He drives a Mercedes E 250 estate and was staggered basically how poor the Audi engine stacked up his on a like for like basis. Only the Tech pack impressed him.

The 3.0 certainly did not hang about after the first 1000 or so miles. Like me, he prefers the 3.0 “50” drive but after my injector problem at 300 miles, I’ll be taking the Merc on a long Euro trip until my “50” has put down more miles. As it’s our businesses, breakdowns are disastrous for logistics and planning, not to mention cost control.

On my “50” the oil level readings were very consistent. Checked 1h after parking up on level drive.

Hi Paul,

It's not a big deal really it's still very new but seems to be using a bit of oil that's all, will keep a can in the boot and see how we get on. Perhaps it'll settle down when it gets some miles on it.

As for being rough, I'd be lying if I said I hadn't caught it occasionally "pinking" a little at low speed from a rolling start and under a bit of load (perhaps the box not quite dropping down quick enough) but once it's up to speed it really is whisper quiet and very smooth.

Completely understand if you've lost a little confidence given the teething problems you're describing with the injectors, especially if it's your workhorse you don't want it down with anything serious or for any length of time.

 

[Paul - Berkshire]

The C8 A6 50 replaced a A6, C6 3.0 TDI Avant s-line Le Mans that didn’t miss a beat in 11 years and a galactic mileage. The long distance trips are with a loaded boot of delicate specialist kit so roadside assistance and replacement vehicles of insufficient size would leave us massively behind schedule and hit our profit margins. My expectations are high for a premium brand, my experience is that manufacturing defects show up in first few months, electronics sooner and then work for years and contacts/connections fail in later years. I am concerned at the numbers of reported failures with the C8 electrics and surprised as most of the systems were implemented on the A8 and A7.

So far, so good. There are clearly some non-critical issues that have not been resolved and require reset on engine restart. The reported 10 million lines of code are misleading as systems are modularised. However the combining of system modules should have been better tested and the response to reported faults dealt with more professionally. Car dealers don’t appear to have wrapped their minds around the increasing use of technology in their products or how they support them. With the true hybrid Audi models On the blocks, until fully replaced with EV, we will have a period of the worse of both worlds combustion/electric drive units, both with control systems and common systems. What could possibly go wrong - quite a lot actually!