Oil HELP!!!!

[james]

I all ways thought, if you start using loads of oil the piston rings are on their last legs?

[wagonboy]

Is it just me then, or maybe my low mileage?? Ive had my 2005 GTi since new, do about 7k miles a year and have NEVER had to add a drop, never mind a few litres!! Tbh, that free oil pouch, and oil in the boot, that came with the car has never even been opened, lol!!

Ive had my ED30 for 4 years now and have probably only put half a litre in it in all that time ( in between services of course ).Don't
do a lot of milage but some of these figures of the amount of oil being used would cetainly worry me. Why such a vast difference ??

[ReeceH13]

Strange that there is a vast difference, must be the way people drive??

On a seperate note, what are the benefit of these hose's? http://www.forgemotorsport.com/content.asp?inc=product&cat=260305&product=FMKC010 really worth that much?

[scopes]

Engine bay eye candy...

[NikB]

Bought 05 GTI MK5 3 weeks ago, very happy, 1 owner, FVWSH, 59K miles. Driving home last night and oli light came on. Stopped, bought 1 lite of castrol for almost £20 (ouch) from BP petrol station (was late at night> Next day, light still on. Quick trip to trusted workshop and seems the sensor is the problem, apparently not uncommon for them, to go.

Lesson is, trust the (hard to read0 dipstick

[GrayMK5GTI]

Worth noting that the dipstick only measures the top litre of the sump so a dry dipstick could still have a few litres in the sump  

@james - amount of oil used is generally how a car has been run in. Gentle run-ins don't seat the pistons as well as cars that have been thrashed from day one.   - could also be down to a PCV failing. Only cars with mega miles (blue smoke out of the exhaust) need to worry about rings wearing out/ failing. - or running 380bhp on a BWA engine