WHAT. This is utter crap. Please do not listen to this guy. Change your oil and filter every 3,000 miles like a normal person. I did run a land rover oil filter (roughly twice the size) on mine to help with any possible sludge.

 

As do I. I wasn't trying to be rude or sarcastic. I was actually recommending that you ask your testing friend.


I'm sorry sir, but you are wrong. You are reading the results of a class action lawsuit. Here is the 2015 Official list of Audi approved oils:

https://www.audiusa.com/content/dam/...e-Bulletin.pdf

Granted: 5w20 is not on there, but if you read my post correctly, I clearly stated that I CHOOSE to deviate from "the norm". My car has 285,000 miles on it, with all stock internals and stock turbo. I even have a 17psi tune, yet I have no sludge whatsoever (at all). If I'm doing something so very wrong.... Then I don't know what it is.

If you also took the time to objectively pay attention to my (YES) OPINIONS, you will see that I stated that this is my OPINION and that there will be plenty of people who disagree. I don't know why there's always the "E-dog pile" on people who have unconventional opinions. Offer what you have to say just as I did and keep it moving. There's no need to put up huge banners, saying: "Don't listen to this guy" and act like I set your hair on fire.

I made it perfectly clear that this is my method and that it is unconventional. Relax.



Again sir: You are referencing outdated materials.

For accurate and up to date specs, please reference:

https://www.audiusa.com/content/dam/...e-Bulletin.pdf


Changing your oil every 3,000 miles is what "normal" people did in the 1960's because it was necessary. Please show me ANY modern day car manufacturer who requires 3,000 mile oil changes.


Attacking me with opinions and what used to be facts is the only thing wrong with this thread. I offered an opinion, the method I use and that my method was unconventional. Every single one of you who attacked me were wrong (in no less than one way).

Thank you.

 

As a Bonus: I will add in what Mobile 1 and what Castrol recommend here:

https://mobiloil.com/~/media/amer/us...pecs-guide.pdf


http://applications.castrol.com/oils...kw)-(1994-2001)

Enjoy.

 

In change my oil every time I get a new engine .

 

Prove it.

 

3k oil changes are like avants. waste of money and only for idiots

 

I don't have to prove **** to you.

I'm an honest guy. I know my engine is sludge free from being told and then shown by my VW/Audi specialist while it was in the shop. My car also has 285K miles on an all stock, original engine, with all stock, original, internals and 17psi. I must be the luckiest guy in the world if I'm doing something so wrong.

If I had ANY inclination that there was something wrong, or even risky with my method of oil and filter replacement, then I wouldn't use it on my own car, let alone share the idea with someone else.

Also Let us not forget the fact that I was very clear in saying that my method was something that a lot of people wouldn't agree with.

I don't understand how I can politely prove every single person wrong - who attacked me with their "facts", yet you still want to start **** like some 12 year old who can't accept the fact that other people think differently than him and sometimes he's wrong from time to time. "Prove it!"......Really? That's so ******* childish.

As I stated before: From what I understand, everyone is free to offer their own input: be it opinions, or raw data, but if this site is going to turn into a lynch mob of group thinkers, who act like children, taking BIG Black crayons and drawing big banners all over someone's admitted opinion, instead of acting like mature, objective, kind and helpful adults, then I'll leave. I don't want to be discussing anything with subjective people.

 

Prove it.

 

Although I could, I will not go through all your old posts to prove it. I will give one example, besides this thread in which you stated 5w-20 oil is VAG approved. It isn't.


Here, you are trying to help a guy get his hood open. This is not the way of doing it and it is a waste of time.

All you have to do is go underneath the car with a 2 foot rod, use a flashlight to find the latch, and push up with the rod. Simple as that. Don't send people on wild goose chases if you do not know what you are talking about.

 

The problem I have with your recommendation in this thread is it is completely adverse to the well documented sludge problems all 1.8ts have had. I'll let your recommendation remain, but I wanted to let future readers of this thread that your "advice" is contrary to that of every single 1.8t owner I have come across. It is contrary to that of Audi's service bulletin, it is contrary to general accepted oil change practices, and a 15,000 mile oil change interval is even contrary to the interval requested in the owner's manual.

Basically, what you are suggested is similar to saying you can go 150,000 miles on a timing belt. Sure, it is possible, but it is contrary to everything 1.8t owners have learned over the last two decades.