Why does my Audi lose oil but no leak?
The engine must maintain a certain amount of oil to run efficiently and prevent engine destruction. If your car is losing oil but no leak or smoke, the problem is usually related to an internal oil leak that you don’t notice or important faulty components in your engine.
Why does my Audi keep needing oil?
Why Your Audi A4 is Burning Oil and Overheating The base problem with these engines is that the piston rings allow small amounts of oil to leak out into the cylinders. Once in the cylinders, it burns, leading to high oil consumption.
Did Audi fix the oil consumption problem?
Audi has agreed to settle an oil consumption lawsuit before. The suit targeted 126,000 vehicles with 2.0L turbocharged engines. In reality, there are plenty more vehicles that guzzle through oil, but for the sake of this lawsuit it focused on the following with a CAEB engine code: 2009-2011 Audi A4.
What brand of oil does Audi recommend?
Castrol® EDGE® Professional
Audi recommends Castrol® EDGE® Professional engine oil. To be sure that you are using an approved oil, check the container label, which should carry the specification, or see your authorized Audi Dealer, who will have approved oil in stock and available for purchase.
What year Audi has oil consumption?
This Alert Affects: Anyone who owns or leases certain 2010–2017 Audi vehicles with a 2.0-liter turbo engine and experienced excessive oil consumption or other problems that may be related to the pistons.
Do Audi cars burn oil?
Our data shows that newer Audi 2.0-liter turbos and V6 engines are also burning oil. In a recent technical service bulletin, Audi recommended that “the customer always have a spare quart of engine oil in case the engine oil needs topping off while on the road.”
When to do an oil consumption test on an Audi 2.0?
In practise if you are getting anything under 2000 miles you probably have the problem, but Audi won’t acknowledge it until you get below 1200 miles. (this is correct for 2.0 engines, I am not sure the spec mileage for other engines) However, for Audi to do any corrective work you need to have an official consumption test done by a main dealer.
Why does my Audi engine leak so much oil?
In advanced cases there can be noticeable smoke from the exhaust under heavy acceleration, and it is also known to damage the actual cylinders themselves, causing scoring in the bores. One theory is that these grooves cause more and more oil to leak around the pistons, hence the problem gets progressively worse.
What causes high oil consumption in Audi A5?
What is the problem? The early version of the TFSI gasoline engines found in the A5, A4 and Q5 have an inherent design fault which leads to high consumption of oil.
What was the Audi oil consumption lawsuit about?
The Audi oil consumption lawsuit alleges the repair shop said the engine needed to be replaced, causing her to take the vehicle to an Audi dealer for an engine replacement. The lawsuit alleges the plaintiff had to pay more than $10,000 for a replacement engine and labor.