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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2012, 04:23:46 pm »
5L in a year is not an astronomical amount. A Mazda RX8 would chew about 20 litres in that time (at least)

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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2012, 04:29:03 pm »
Its when you use half a dipstick every 200 miles like mine did, that you need to worry :scared:

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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #17 on: February 14, 2012, 04:33:03 pm »
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Its when you use half a dipstick every 200 miles like mine did, that you need to worry :scared:
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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #18 on: February 14, 2012, 05:08:02 pm »
Its when you use half a dipstick every 200 miles like mine did, that you need to worry :scared:

That's about 2.5 litres every thousand miles... Still within VW's tollerences.

Are u sure you really needed a rebuild  :grin:

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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #19 on: February 14, 2012, 05:28:08 pm »
Ive a litre bottle of oil I keep in the boot which I top up from a 4 litre in the house. Mine likes a drink now and then.
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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #20 on: February 14, 2012, 05:39:00 pm »
Its when you use half a dipstick every 200 miles like mine did, that you need to worry :scared:

That's about 2.5 litres every thousand miles... Still within VW's tollerences.

Are u sure you really needed a rebuild  :grin:
It was nearly a full top up bottle a week at the end. I used up 2 full 4ltr bottles of castrol edge in about 3 months. Didn't use a drop the first 9 months I owned it.
I haven't used a drop since its been fixed either

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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #21 on: February 14, 2012, 06:08:00 pm »
I take it you mean 6000 miles?

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You would hope so! but no.

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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #22 on: February 14, 2012, 08:09:23 pm »
Its when you use half a dipstick every 200 miles like mine did, that you need to worry :scared:
Did you ever find out why it was using so much oil, was it rings or stem seals etc?
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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #23 on: February 14, 2012, 08:12:17 pm »
For the first 10k of its life, my car used a litre. Since then it's needed around a litre over the last 30k miles.

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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #24 on: February 14, 2012, 08:13:04 pm »
Mine gets through about 1litre every 2000 miles.  :sad1:
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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #25 on: February 14, 2012, 11:25:12 pm »
Be interesting to know why some cars use oil and others don't. Mine goes from the max to min mark in 1700 ish miles.
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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #26 on: February 15, 2012, 12:22:10 am »
and they say the tdi's are oil burners :signLOL:

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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #27 on: February 15, 2012, 07:10:35 am »
I think it varies engine to engine. Mine uses hardly any oil whatsoever but heard others use quite a bit. Keep ontop of consumption & change the grade of oil if neccesary

Same here... mine uses about a 1litre of top up per service(8000miles)... Not like the BMW's ive had which is more like a 1litre every1-2k miles...

My edition 30 never needed topping up and the R is the same.

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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #28 on: February 15, 2012, 08:13:20 am »
Could be related to oil used? Journey type? Driving styles?

I know mine uses significantly more oil when i have ignored the fuel bill.

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Re: Engine Oil Disappearing- VW say cant find a fault- advice please
« Reply #29 on: February 15, 2012, 09:18:51 am »
Could be related to oil used? Journey type? Driving styles?

I know mine uses significantly more oil when i have ignored the fuel bill.
I think it varies engine to engine. Mine uses hardly any oil whatsoever but heard others use quite a bit. Keep ontop of consumption & change the grade of oil if neccesary

Same here... mine uses about a 1litre of top up per service(8000miles)... Not like the BMW's ive had which is more like a 1litre every1-2k miles...

My edition 30 never needed topping up and the R is the same.

There's the answer from both angles. don't drive it, it won't use any, but if you are more enthusiastic with the throttle, it will use oil to some extent  :signLOL: