Oil consumption Q7 3.0tdi
Discussion
We have a 2011 Q7 which we have owned from new (now 15 months old0 that has now covered 80,000 miles, it has FSH with Audi but seems to consume about a litre of oil every 4 to 5,000 miles. The dealer says this is perfectly normal and the car has been faultless since new but I wondered if this was the case with regards to oil consumption? It has done this since new
That's an immense mileage to do in a Q7!
After 80K miles, what's suddenly made you concerned about the oil consumption?
Does the car ask for oil, or are you topping it up all the time?
As a matter of interest, how often are you changing the tyres?
After 80K miles, what's suddenly made you concerned about the oil consumption?
Does the car ask for oil, or are you topping it up all the time?
As a matter of interest, how often are you changing the tyres?
Edited by Deva Link on Saturday 20th April 21:52
i have a 56 plate 3.0tdi on 86k. I dont do any kind of miles in it though compared to what your doing so i would say what your doing is normal. Depends how much your topping up, the odd half litre of oil to take it over the line would be normal i guess. I would get it checked out by a few garages though as i always read/here differing advice on the q7. Especially over the good old q7 tyre pressure debate - i run cheapy £120 each tyres at 42psi - no problem at all.
Deva Link said:
That's an immense mileage to do in a Q7!
After 80K miles, what's suddenly made you concerned about the oil consumption?
Does the car ask for oil, or are you topping it up all the time?
As a matter of interest, how often are you changing the tyres?
My wife has done most of the mileage, but whilst using it the other day the low oil light come on, so I put litre of oil in, but it had only been serviced 4,000 miles before, when i spoke to the wife she said she had been putting oil in it like that since we have had it but forgot to mention it!After 80K miles, what's suddenly made you concerned about the oil consumption?
Does the car ask for oil, or are you topping it up all the time?
As a matter of interest, how often are you changing the tyres?
Edited by Deva Link on Saturday 20th April 21:52
With regards to tyres, in the summer we are running it on 21" wheels with michelin, and in the winter 18" with snow tyres, still on our first set of winter tyres and just replaced the summer tyres for the third time last week so about 25,000 miles a set
Hi All,
I've got a Q7 3.0tdi (ordered it last September and collected it in December).
It's got 17,000kms now.
So far I've had to put a litre and a half of oil into it.
The first time I got the oil warning light was about 4000kms ago.
We've just got back from our summer holiday, which was a long drive down
to Hvar in Croatia. Before the holiday I went to the Audi dealer and bought
a litre of oil, just in case.
I asked the technician there, is it normal that the Q7 3.0tdi, 6 months old, is using
oil, he said it's normal they use a bit of oil and I should just top it up.
On the journey back from Croatia, in Austria I got the oil warning light. I gently added
oil and kept checking the dip stick and in the end had to add the whole litre bottle.
When I came home, I searched on google and found this thread.
I am also surprised that such a modern engine, from a brand new car should be using oil.
It's impossible to see where it's going, as the exhaust pipe is clean, I guess because of the
dpf's. But at the same time it is worrying.
I need to put the car into Audi to get the bumper fixed from a small bump and when I do
that I'll ask them about this again.
We also have a 2009 A4 3.0tdi which we've had from new and that one doesn't use anything
like this amount of oil.
Does anybody else have any concrete information on this. It's easy for Audi just to brush this
off but it really doesn't make sense.
On the other side, I love the car, it's got the air suspension and the 8 speed automatic, fuel consumption is excellent, about 9litres per 100km's even though it's driven hard. The tyre wear which I have heard a lot about doesn't seem too bad, but I have winter and summer wheels and tyres, the winters being 18" and the summers 20". The car's metallic black, blacked out rear windows with titanium (summer wheels) wheels and looks very nice. I'd recommend the Q7 with the air suspension and 8 speed auto to everyone. Next time the v8 would be nice, the extra 100 horse power would come in very useful, but still the car is adequately powered for long distance motorway cruising and overtaking.
In March I went with 3 friends to Techno Classica in Essen, a 1400km round trip and even doing 180km/h whereever possible on the autobahn's still got 9.5litres per 100kms.
Anyway, back to the question, is the oil consumption really normal and acceptable, and what causes it ?
I've got a Q7 3.0tdi (ordered it last September and collected it in December).
It's got 17,000kms now.
So far I've had to put a litre and a half of oil into it.
The first time I got the oil warning light was about 4000kms ago.
We've just got back from our summer holiday, which was a long drive down
to Hvar in Croatia. Before the holiday I went to the Audi dealer and bought
a litre of oil, just in case.
I asked the technician there, is it normal that the Q7 3.0tdi, 6 months old, is using
oil, he said it's normal they use a bit of oil and I should just top it up.
On the journey back from Croatia, in Austria I got the oil warning light. I gently added
oil and kept checking the dip stick and in the end had to add the whole litre bottle.
When I came home, I searched on google and found this thread.
I am also surprised that such a modern engine, from a brand new car should be using oil.
It's impossible to see where it's going, as the exhaust pipe is clean, I guess because of the
dpf's. But at the same time it is worrying.
I need to put the car into Audi to get the bumper fixed from a small bump and when I do
that I'll ask them about this again.
We also have a 2009 A4 3.0tdi which we've had from new and that one doesn't use anything
like this amount of oil.
Does anybody else have any concrete information on this. It's easy for Audi just to brush this
off but it really doesn't make sense.
On the other side, I love the car, it's got the air suspension and the 8 speed automatic, fuel consumption is excellent, about 9litres per 100km's even though it's driven hard. The tyre wear which I have heard a lot about doesn't seem too bad, but I have winter and summer wheels and tyres, the winters being 18" and the summers 20". The car's metallic black, blacked out rear windows with titanium (summer wheels) wheels and looks very nice. I'd recommend the Q7 with the air suspension and 8 speed auto to everyone. Next time the v8 would be nice, the extra 100 horse power would come in very useful, but still the car is adequately powered for long distance motorway cruising and overtaking.
In March I went with 3 friends to Techno Classica in Essen, a 1400km round trip and even doing 180km/h whereever possible on the autobahn's still got 9.5litres per 100kms.
Anyway, back to the question, is the oil consumption really normal and acceptable, and what causes it ?
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I've done some more research on this, and there is a lot of discussion on this issue
on the internet, eg:
https://www.google.ch/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=WcPpU_2-BI...
http://www.lemonlaw.com/wordpress/audi-oil-consump...
http://margarianlaw.com/audi-oil-consumption-class...
Allegedly there are a lot of people with the same issues, and from the discussions
many have required new pistons and rings and have been successful to get this work
done under warranty.
I've just contacted my Audi dealer for a warranty claim and will update here with progress.
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