Oil Useage

[Smythe1981]

Hello All

I need some advice on oil useage, i've done 3800 miles in 6 months in my GTI and in total have had to top up the oil by about a litre in that time.

I think i'm quite sensible driver, thrash it now and again (once / twice a week), but mainly stick to 'normal' driving, i do a lot of town driving, starting and stopping etc, which returns about 30mpg.

I maybe paranoid, due to having a 307 diesel previously, which wouldnt use a drop of oil, don't think i ever topped it between 12000 miles services!

Anybody else use much oil? or is it just normal?

Thanks

[2007GTI]

that sounds the same as mine, I put three quarters of a litre in after 3500 miles, at 6 months old and I hardly trash it either and do mainly town driving. 

[Smythe1981]

good news, thanks

[Phil mcavity]

yep , same as mine

[Stiggy]

Excuse my ignorance, but the oil dipstick is showing the oil level at half way between min and max - should i top up the oil?  Done 3400 miles.  Also, the oil used in my car is not the long life stuff but the other stuff.  Read after in a forum that most people have specified the long life stuff regardless of how many miles they do.  Should I have specified the long life stuff and if so, can i still have it changed?

Thanks in advance.

[Cass]

0.5  litre in 3000 miles, nothing more since then (currently 4100 miles).

Stiggy - Reading should be to the top of the dipstick marker - top it up

Servicing regime can be specified with the dealer - should equate to your annual mileage, driving style and average journey type etc. Full details in the handbook.

Cass

[aahgolf]

Never used any oil in 39000 miles...

[Teutonic_Tamer]

Oil consumption can be upto one litre per 1,000 miles, so all are well within tollerance.

Regarding the variable interval LongLife servicing regime - don't do it.  The latest advice from VAG is that LongLife servicing is only suitable if you keep below 3,000 rpm.  Now I'm sure that all us GTI owners never keep below 3,000rpm - so you need to switch to the fixed interval Time and Distance servicing.

LongLife oils - these are a much higher specification compared to the normal time and distance oils, even if the T&D oils are fully synthetic.  Any turbo engine, even on T&D servicing, should still use the LongLife oil.