car was serviced in late october and had to go in to dealer for another matter this week. while there they noticed that car had used nearly a litre in 3 mths and they topped up .
So do you have some allergy against what the dipstick is made of?
is this normal ? being a sceptic, i'm inclined to think the oil wasnt changed/topped up at service time. service dept mention that owner's manual says gti can use oil at quite a pace. any thoughts pls?
How many miles in those three months, and how many miles has the car done overall?
For the record, the offical figures state that the GTI (just like most cars actually) can use "up to on litre of oil per 1,000 kilometers" - so a litre of oil every 600 miles. However, this is extremely rare to use oil at this rate, especially after the engine has been properly run in.
You normally find they use quite a lot for the first 2,000 to 3,000 miles, and then settle down to virtually nothing. When SWMBOs GTI was new, it did use about a litre in the first 500-600 miles (though I can't remember exactly), and it gradually tailed off at around 4 or 5k miles. From then, it used between 200 - 300ml per 1000 miles - which is fine by me.
What ever you do, don't ever overfill the GTI. Whilst some engines are tollerant of being slightly overfilled, the GTI lump seems to be quite sensative. More than 3mm above the max level, and you could well find it gunking up the PCV, not to mention being burnt too.
