Help Mikey get to one car

[Mike]

i had better get credited with an assist.

[Jake]

sure, but I'm not touching VAG without CPO.

good call. Always demand your VAG come with a cert; especially if its been previously loved.

This one's an Avant, there have probably been many people inside this VAG product all at one time. I would request a thorough once-over by an independent inspector before paying for this VAG.

[CaptainHenreh]

This one's an Avant, there have probably been many people inside this VAG product all at one time. I would request a thorough once-over by an independent inspector before paying for this VAG.

Jake, be honest. Would you EVER consider a VAG?

[SlimKlim]

:lol:

[Mike]

This one's an Avant, there have probably been many people inside this VAG product all at one time. I would request a thorough once-over by an independent inspector before paying for this VAG.

Jake, be honest. Would you EVER consider a VAG?

Ahahaha I had that joke (well, similar) in my head this AM. I feared Jake and I weren't close enough for me to actually post it. :lol:

[Jake]

This one's an Avant, there have probably been many people inside this VAG product all at one time. I would request a thorough once-over by an independent inspector before paying for this VAG.

Jake, be honest. Would you EVER consider a VAG?

I did in high school, test drove a few at Carmax. Just wasn't really my thing, yadig?

[CaptainHenreh]

I did in high school, test drove a few at Carmax. Just wasn't really my thing, yadig?

Yeah, but it's a wagon. What if you were trying to start a family?

[Jake]

I did in high school, test drove a few at Carmax. Just wasn't really my thing, yadig?

Yeah, but it's a wagon. What if you were trying to start a family?

You don't need a VAG for that.

Subaru and BMW still sell wagons.

[Jake]

Ahahaha I had that joke (well, similar) in my head this AM. I feared Jake and I weren't close enough for me to actually post it. :lol:

Oh, you can joke all around, those types of jokes are 100% fair game :thumbup:

[Mike]

Saw an A4 today. Owner says he has to add a quart of oil every 5k miles. I have the same engine and do not have to do that. Clearly his engine is worse than mine. That said, it is apparently a widespread fact or problem and Audi only considers it bad if you get below 1200mi/qt. Doesn't seem too excessive at 5k per, but I can't say I'm particularly comfortable with it. Any car I buy may burn oil, but without the owner telling me, I won't know. So maybe I'm better off knowing it only lightly consumes? Thoughts?

[Evan]

Personally I don't find any oil burning to be acceptable in a sub 100k warrantied vehicle. Been through that before on a couple beaters and its a hassle to wonder when the last time you added oil.

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[Mike]

But this is a known quantity of burning. If I roll the dice on a car at a dealership or something, I'll have no idea if or how much it burns. Maybe we're concluding that the 2.0T engine is one I should steer clear of? That'd really suck balls. Because it is awesome in the GTI and I have a non-burner. The car does have a warranty... Assuming I get it documented prior to the warranty, I should be able to get any serious engine stuff handled, no? Adding oil isn't too big a deal... needing a new engine is.

[Mike]

1/3 get lucky.

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[Apoc]

Why not just get a second car, if you love your car so much?

[ScottyB]

of course its a completely different engine in every way, but my subaru burns through about a quart every 5k miles. nothing smoky out the pipe, it just...disappears. i love the 2.0T as well, but i just think its weird it doesn't do it in the transverse cars but does it in the longitudinal ones.

burning a little is no big deal to me, just keep an extra quart in the trunk. i just check it while i'm standing around every time i fill up, otherwise doing nothing.

[Mike]

Why not just get a second car, if you love your car so much?

I don't like my car enough to justify two cars. And we go places together 98% of the time.

If anything, I pick up a beater pickup for whenever I go off solo.

burning a little is no big deal to me, just keep an extra quart in the trunk. i just check it while i'm standing around every time i fill up, otherwise doing nothing.

it's a barely used $40k car. i didn't even carry oil in the hatchpile. it's just... not acceptable.

[CaptainHenreh]

My 149,000 mile lexus has burned precisely no oil in 6,000 miles that I can tell.

[SlimKlim]

My TSI has 67k and needs maybe a 1/2qt top off halfway between oil changes... if I remember to do it. An entire quart every 5k does seem a little excessive though.

[WRXtranceformed]

My CTS needed to have about a quart added between changes which seemed off to me too. According to the user manual it was considered "normal". I remember talking to the Cadillac service reps about it and they had seen several of them come in for engine issues because owners did not heed the manual warnings and didn't check their oil enough. Some of the first DI engines I guess were pretty heavy on the oil blowby / oil being pushed into the intake manifold. After I added the catch can on my car it would catch about 1/8-1/4 of a quart between oil changes that would have otherwise ended up in the intake system. I think that is poor engineering personally because every stock Jap car I ever owned never burned a drop. I think it's up in the air for some cars to burn oil over others.

The XFR has an electronic dipstick that requires a weird procedure to see it. I haven't checked it in a few months and I probably should, but I have only put 4,000 miles on it since I bought it.

[HAULN-SS]

Just to add to the club - My 217kmile malibu has never had to have a quart of oil added in between 12k mile oil changes