Golf 2.0 Oil Consumption

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Richard Dungan wrote:

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Hi, all.

I'm not a regular visitor to this group, but I wonder if anyone has any
thoughts:

I have a 2002 VW Golf 2.0 estate. Regularly serviced, mostly used on
occasional long journeys. Now has about 35000 miles.

It burns oil at an alarming rate. I reckon about 1200 miles per litre,
more if driven fast. The VW dealer says that VW allow an oil consumption
of up to 600 miles (1000 Km) per litre. This is ridiculous. It means
that it can't be used on a long holiday without topping up the oil.

After one service, the dealer rather sheepishly gave me an extra litre
of oil, saying that it "might be useful".

I'm technical enough to check it and top it up, but how do VW ever
expect such a car to survive from one service to the next in the hands
of the non-technical?

As I say, I'd be interested in thoughts...
Richard D.

Spamtrapped at ngsATradixDASHdesignDOTcoDOTuk
www.radix-design.co.uk

Yes that is perfectly normal and reasonable for many modern engines -
for a given value of modern.

That APK engine IME uses nothing at all between services for the first
80k mils and then suddenly starts using the stuff. It is well within
spec. so just check it occasionally and top it up.

Rich, having just found *his* Bora 2.0 off the bottom of the dipstick -
oops.

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Re: Golf 2.0 Oil Consumption - 05-18-2007 , 11:41 AM