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How many liters missing and after how many k km? My friend's GTI is also like that, need to top up like 1 ltr every 5-7k km or something.
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not sure for how many liter is missing and whenever it happens i drove to SC to get it check and they said they just top up FOC...
n yes...they advice me to monitor my EO level every 2-3k...its the fully synthetic character or the engine is having an issue?
It's the engine. not the oil. I'm also using FS oil but never need to top up even up to 10k km when comes time to change oil. Even if I need to top up, probably just very little (<0.5ltr) which I can ignore.
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I mean some engines are just already designed like that, not that it's necessarily having issue because that's normal for such engines. Some engines even known to consume a bit more oil, like certain VW/Audi or BMW engines. Other engines can consume way less oil, for example my Toyota Mark X. So that's why I asked you how much oil consumed within certain km? If like 1ltr every 2k km then that's abnormally high, but if only like 1ltr after 5-7k km then still seems normal. I think for your case maybe still normal for your engine so that's why the SC tops up FOC.
Yup, heard some Conti cars, loosing some oil is quite common.....lol
Read your owner's manual. It is normal. And it's mentioned in the book. So long as it's within specification. Losing 1 quart of engine oil in 500km is NOT within specification for sure.
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after a month monitoring...and after i did extreme experiment to the car itself...i felt regret to buy this vw golf...so sad but its true...after asking u guys...the engine really "eat" engine oil and from the last service till today the EO warning lights popped up!
herm....
herm....
What extreme experiment?
Yeah for now VW is not synonymous with reliability, it's more like the opposite.
My colleague who bought the GTI also often comes to me asking and telling all kinds of issues with his car and has spent thousands to fix things just within about a year, way more than the amount I had spent on my Toyota Mark X in almost 5 yrs now!
What extreme experiment?
Yeah for now VW is not synonymous with reliability, it's more like the opposite.
My colleague who bought the GTI also often comes to me asking and telling all kinds of issues with his car and has spent thousands to fix things just within about a year, way more than the amount I had spent on my Toyota Mark X in almost 5 yrs now!
The 1.4TSi engine have issues, unless buy 6 speed 2.0 or R.....
The 1.4TSi engine have issues, unless buy 6 speed 2.0 or R.....
Like I said, even my friend's GTI also got many nagging issues. He also complained about low oil level until warning lights sometimes on!
just bought 4L of Castrol magnatec RM90 from Tesco last Friday.
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What extreme experiment?
Yeah for now VW is not synonymous with reliability, it's more like the opposite.
My colleague who bought the GTI also often comes to me asking and telling all kinds of issues with his car and has spent thousands to fix things just within about a year, way more than the amount I had spent on my Toyota Mark X in almost 5 yrs now!
use the car without checking the EO level...just to see the warning light pop up or not...so after about 3000km the warning light appear and refer to SC and the answer is normal and they ask me to monitor the EO...so i ask them out of good will 2 litre EO so i dun have to waste my time to come + que + get it done...
The 10w40?
Only 3000 km warning light pops out? That's bad, I would not consider that normal. I consider that either spoiled engine that needs OH or sorry to say, defective engine design.
yups..
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yups...the interval is 10k km...and i drove it daily this month to monitor the issue...previously i always juggle between wife myvi and rode a bike to work...
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