I purchase the Pentosin from ECS and always keep an extra quart around. However, both the Mobil 1 and Castrol Sythetic are good choices.

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I'll look for these, thanks!
My 2000 S4 wasn't very picky about the kind of oil.

 

Question regarding oil,

I cannot find the recommended 5W 40, so I bought a couple quarts 0w 40. Which is the 2nd choice in the manual to use.

I just had an oil change from the dealer a couple weeks ago, they said they use 5w 40.

Now if I have to add a quart sometime down the road, can I use the 0w 40 that I purchased? And would that matter much to MIX with the 5w 40?

 

Will not matter, as long as you keep it to par level o w, or 5 w.
Problems occur when the low oil alarm goes off and is disregarded.

 

Did my first oil change last week at about 2500 miles. Oil level was down a full quart. I am now using Mobil-1 0-40 and had a custom reflash (265hp, 295ft-lb) done as well. Interesting to see if the oil consumption changes.

 

Why did you replace your oil at 2500miles? Even heavily modified the oil doesn't need to be changed more than every 5k miles or so. It won't hurt anything, but it seems expensive and not necessary.

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I guess I'm a little old school. This is actually the longest I've ever gone for the first oil service on a new car. Considering it is turbocharged, and I do drive it hard, and it was down a quart anyway, what the hell. I have a full service facility at my disposal so it was a no-brainer. I'll probably go about 4-5K between changes moving forward.

 

Sounds reasonable.

 

Just had my 10K oil change at dealer. I was informed that "it's normal for the Audi engine to consume about a half quart every 3K miles". I was really surprised. My A3 does consume about that amount. The dealer informed me "it was mostly due to the turbo." I find this unsettling. If this is normal for the 2.0 FSI engine for performance issues. I wish Audi would inform it's consumers with a service bulletin addressing this issue.

 

Totally normal. You are more informed than most because you are a forum member. It would make sense for them to instruct people to pay attention to their oil levels. Any previous turbo owner would be aware of that though.

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