Anyone with oil usage in the RS?

[woofy]

Had a chat with my cousin who is a VW/Audi mechanic and was formerly a Mazda/Honda mechanic.

He says that the VW engines don't need a run in service as they do that in the factory and he rarely ever sees metal at all at the first oil change. interestingly enough the Hyundais they also service at his dealership have filters jammed full of it. Also because of the larger filters he said they last the 15k/12mths fine, but he finds it really strange that Skoda don't use a 7.5k/6mths interim service of just an oil change, but leaving the filter as that's what they do with the VWs. I think I will give Skoda/VW HQ a call and ask about it.

[brad]

, but he finds it really strange that Skoda don't use a 7.5k/6mths interim service of just an oil change, but leaving the filter as that's what they do with the VWs. I think I will give Skoda/VW HQ a call and ask about it.

Fair enough, but i can't see the point of changing the oil and leaving the filter unless you are doing a quick flush with cheap oil. For the $20 part & 15 minutes labour...........

[woofy]

Yeah I thought that but he said, its pretty much a waste of time, the filters last for ages and were designed to do so whereas oil still gets worn out, you'd think there would be still a fair bit of old oil in the filter though.

Everything with VW seems unusual really in terms of my previous cars.

[brad]

Yeah I thought that but he said, its pretty much a waste of time, the filters last for ages and were designed to do so whereas oil still gets worn out, you'd think there would be still a fair bit of old oil in the filter though.

Everything with VW seems unusual really in terms of my previous cars.

I'd guess 500ml in there, maybe 750ml at most.

I'm sure there is enough surface area in there that it doesn't plug & bipass except in exceptional circumstances.

My reasoning for changing the filter is that (when I was swinging spanners) I had a few hassles with customers claiming their oil wasn't changed because "the oil was still black". It caused such acrimony that I refused to do an oil change without doing the filter. It's nice to have clean oil for a few thousand kilometres after a change.

[RaceBlueRS]

My vRS was serviced at 15K and the oil replaced with Shell Helix as recommended. I next checked it at 19,500km and had stick in almost a litre

[wombatoutofhell]

My oil light came on last week at 13000 past the service-I put in a litre which didn't quite bring it up to full but was enough to get it to the next service. I used Shell Helix as recomended but couldn't find exactly which helix they wanted-so I just got the most expensive.