RS asked for oil last night

[Transporter]

Haven't topped up yet as I was checking on the correct oil. Just checked the manual and it's the same oil as the Tiggy so all good to be topped up now.

Just top up in small amounts, since it probably won't take more than 0.7L-1L and it's easy to overfill.

[donweather]

Just top up in small amounts, since it probably won't take more than 0.7L-1L and it's easy to overfill.

Will do. Thanks for the tip.

[PassatB6]

This issue seems to be with turbo petrol engines only. Had a 2006 Passat which drank oil furiously (2.0T) while my current 2.0 diesel Scout hasn't used a drop in 66,000k.

[Tigger]

My petrol RS hasnt used any extra oil.
Just had the 15,000 kms service and all was good

[brad]

Right on 5000km and bing, the oil light came on yesterday. With the Tiggy, had to top it up with oil very close to each service (like 13-14k for the 15k service etc, but after 5k!!!! That's insane to use that much oil in the first 5ks.

I assume its (147TSI) the same engine oil as the Tiggy TSI? Penrite 5W-30?

Oil usage in the first 5,000km is OK for any engine while running-in. It's what happens afterwards that is worth noting. Oil light only = 1L at most

[donweather]

It took about 600-700ml to bring it back up to the top of the optimum marker range on the dipstick.

[Martin]

I got my petrol VRS at 14,000km - just had it's 15k service
I did not check the oil level at that time
Last week I turned over 16,500km and the oil light cam on
Gave it 500ml which brought the oil level to 60% on the dip stick
This is well under the 0.5L per 1,000km detailed in the manual

[k_rider]

Petrol RS. I bought a one litre bottle of Penrite at about the 7 - 8k mark when the oil level was approaching the low mark on the dipstick (I'm way too anal to wait for the oil light to come on!!) and topped it up with 300ml, then a further 200ml (maybe a bit less) at about 13 - 14k. I've just now added 300ml again at 21k.

So, well less than one litre of top-up oil in 20k (with 15k service in-between).

I'm not sure why VAG expect oil consumption to be as high as 0.5l / 1000km. If this was the case, I'd have gone through two, 5 litre bottles of the stuff by now - just in top-ups!

The only time I've seen oil consumption approaching this level, was when riding hard on air-cooled motorbikes in the middle of summer.