Used Oil Analysis (UOA)

[Transporter]

I am about to get my first service done on my Tiguan and am considering UOA. My brother is a farmer and gets the UOA done on the tractors regularly and reckons it is amaizing how accurate the reports are.

I have 2 questions:
1) Is it worth getting UOA done at my first service?
2) Do you know if the VW dealers can do it themselves?

Yes, it is a good idea, from the wear particles you'll be able to tell when your engine is fully run in. Usually it gets done when oil is close to being changed so you know if you can continue driving on that oil or change it. If you drive the same routes you could use the UOA to plan to get maximum from the oil. You don’t need UOA every time you change oil.

You can contact oil company, they will send you oil sampling kit and you send sample to them. You will need to strictly follow the instructions how to get sample from sump to sampling container without contaminating it (not that difficult).

[brad]

I am about to get my first service done on my Tiguan and am considering UOA. My brother is a farmer and gets the UOA done on the tractors regularly and reckons it is amaizing how accurate the reports are.

I have 2 questions:
1) Is it worth getting UOA done at my first service?
2) Do you know if the VW dealers can do it themselves?

2) Probably not. Generally UOA is used where the sump volumes are much bigger. For $80 oil + $20 filter it's hardly worth spending the $40 on UOA.

1) I can get mine done for nothing, and i still don't bother. At the first service, I just figured the report would come back with the oil full of metals - so what's the point? i know it's full of metals at the first service.