shamusom

Hi All...

I have a 2009 A4 2.0T Quattro. I've had it since 4000K, it now has 17,000K. Since I've owned it I've noticed it goes through a lot of oil. For instance, I just had my oil change done at 15,500K and the low oil light came on tonight at 17,000K.

Anyone else experience issues like this? Is there a known problem with these models? I hope I am not in for a long haul battle with Audi..

thx all!

srdjanpajic

Yeah, I just got my entire engine overhaul because of that, and got car back today.

I had the same problem (A3 2.0T, Y2007), it was burning about a quart of oil every 2000miles. It wasn't that bad initially (I bought new vehicle, and it was consuming about quarter per 5000 miles). When I complained first time, audi service in Boulder (Stammler Audi) initially kept convincing me how it is "normal". When I pointed out that my friend's GTI (same platform as A3) has no oil consumption problem whatsoever, they basically told me that I am full of ****, and that all these high compression engines (their words) consume that much oil. Then after I was persistent, and kept coming to the shop whenever I run out of oil, they decided to take a look. And they claim they found some mysterious leak, from valves, or something of that sort, into the transmission box. I heard lot of BS in car repair shops when they don't know what is wrong, but this one is for encyclopedia. But that didn't help, and the oil consumption increased to qt/2000 miles.

And I kept complaining that this is BS, then they did again couple of times consumption tests (I was driving for 1000 miles, then for 600 and they measure the oil consumption. After the last one they did, they told me that audi "just" changed the specs, so my increased consumption is still normal. Then I asked the guys in the shop, if this was their car, would they be ok with it, and their mechanics admitted - no.

So, I got little bit "concerned", and after a lot of pushing, whining, and complaining, mainly because my warranty expires in 2 weeks, Stammler got "approval" from Audi to have my engine opened and inspected. I must say here, Stammler guys were nice and kind all the time to me, just didn't wanna do anything, before my warranty almost expired.

Well, as far as I know, they replaced all the piston gaskets, bunch of seals and that kind of crap. They didn't find any cylinder shape problem, compression was normal, and there was no damage on the cylinder walls. But they found that the camshaft developed some serious issue, so they replaced it. They claim it has nothing to do with the oil problem. And then they told me that the engine had lot of carbon deposits, so they had to clean it up (they told me that is normal, although car has 37000 miles, but I am not sure if I should believe to that after all this hassle).

Now I have car back, seems normal, but I dunno yet if they fixed the problem with oil. I must say, I am pretty disappointed, and I lost confidence in that car. I am cavelr, and travel a lot in the wilderness, nowI am afraid that my car may develop some serious issue when I go far from any civilization. So I think I will to sell my car ASAP, and get something else, no Audi's for me anymore.

Radzio

with only 120,000km the consumption of oil is almost 2liters every 1000km
i wonder when the engine will stop now...