2.0 Tdi Oil Consumption?

[Willber]

I have a 2006 Passar 2.0 Tdi. Car was serviced most recently at 59,000 miles, it is now at 64,000 miles. The oil light came on yesterday indicating to fill with more oil, I had been monitoring the dipstick until this point so it wasn't exactly a surprise.

Is this normal useage for 5000 miles? It sometimes kicks out some blue smoke on start-up but there is no real pattern to it, it just seems random and sporadic. Rather than every morning after being left over night sort of thing, which may indicate stem seals.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks

Will

[mbrain]

Hi Will,

I've had 3 x 2.0tdi VAG cars, each one was virtually the same, the oil light would come on every 6-7000 miles. I drove each one relatively lightly as well.

This appears to be the norm from speaking to colleagues who also ran VAG group cars with this engine.

Marcus

[Tame Technician]

Upto 1 litre per 1000 kilometers is considered ok by Audi/VAG.

We see a lots of high usuage fleet cars, cars that get lots of high speed (90-100) use on the motorway day in day out. They all seem to do 1 litre every 1000 miles almost exactly, which in a way is quite bad, but still within the Audi spec.

So a litre every 5000miles or so is actually very good indeed.

[Muzzer]

Tame Technician said:

Upto 1 litre per 1000 kilometers is considered ok by Audi/VAG.

We see a lots of high usuage fleet cars, cars that get lots of high speed (90-100) use on the motorway day in day out. They all seem to do 1 litre every 1000 miles almost exactly, which in a way is quite bad, but still within the Audi spec.

So a litre every 5000miles or so is actually very good indeed.

I get a low oil warning every 5-7k miles I would say.

Surprising, but no big deal.

My old BMW was very similar until I started using super-synthetic oil at which point is was fine. I've yet to find an equivalent for what I have now.

[Bluesmurff09]

My Jetta 2.0 CR 140 remaped to 185-190 hardly burns any oil and I've done 19k in 8 months!

I'm heavy footed and reguarly sit at 90 on the motorway too.

I've heard that the CR Common rail engines are alot better on oil though



Mat

[Kevin VRs]

My Octavia Scout 2.0TDi used absolutely no oil at all. Dipstick still between the marks the day before its first service (at just over 17,000 miles).

[BoraBora]

my light came on after 10k, considering its done 136k id imagine thats pretty good going..

[liner33]

Neither our PD 170 2.0l Octavia or our 2.0 170 CR Superb use oil between services but they were spanked from new

[Willber]

seems the difference is between PD and CR engines then..

[Kevin VRs]

Willber said:

seems the difference is between PD and CR engines then..

Err nope, according to Liner33 in the post before yours

[warmfuzzies]

Less than 1 litre in 18k miles on my A3.

kevin

[ChasW]

My last Audi 2.0 tdi was the same oil consumption as the OP's. The most oil I have ever had to use in any car.

[bryan35]

My MK4 Golf PD150 absolutely drank oil when it was new. VAG even handed out velcro oil bottles to keep in the boot so you could keep filling it up. After about 90,000 miles the drinking more or less stopped, and it'll go between services without a top up.

Normal I think!

Edited by bryan35 on Wednesday 5th May 10:28