Upset at Audi 10,000 mile service
07-30-2002, 11:46 AM
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Upset at Audi 10,000 mile service
I am going to take my car for service on Thursday, but I was informed that I had to pay additional for Amsoil synthetic since Audi USA only pays for regular oil. You would think that if they recommend an oil change every 10,000 miles that they would consider synthentic...
I even did an oil change through Audi at 5,000 miles which was like $60.....I would think they would just at least give us the 10,000 mile service for free...but there are always catches..
Anyways, sorry for venting...just had to express my disappointment at Audi USA Corporate....
(maybe they will hear me and change their service interval policies....)
I even did an oil change through Audi at 5,000 miles which was like $60.....I would think they would just at least give us the 10,000 mile service for free...but there are always catches..
Anyways, sorry for venting...just had to express my disappointment at Audi USA Corporate....
(maybe they will hear me and change their service interval policies....)
07-30-2002, 11:58 AM
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Upset at 10,000 mi service...Mercedes Benz changed their corporate minds
about oil changes, mid stream. My other car is an ML320 y2k......Service intervals are variable and dictated by the cars computer (FSS Flexible Service Schedule).
The ML takes large quantitiies of oil (8 quarts I believe). MB USA only paid for "regular oil" in
regular service waranteed oil changes. They have since changed their minds and now use
Mobil One type stuff and pay for it during the warantee period.
Perhaps those long service intervals caused them some grief and money for vehicles under warrantee.
The ML takes large quantitiies of oil (8 quarts I believe). MB USA only paid for "regular oil" in
regular service waranteed oil changes. They have since changed their minds and now use
Mobil One type stuff and pay for it during the warantee period.
Perhaps those long service intervals caused them some grief and money for vehicles under warrantee.
07-30-2002, 12:15 PM
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Any modern, decently-engineered engine should run 100K+ miles on dino. If my '68 Beetle...
could make it, so can an Audi 1.8T or 3.0. Synthetic oil's good stuff, but there's nothing wrong with a quality dino either.
07-30-2002, 12:26 PM
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100K+ miles on the same dino oil? ...
but I guess if you have to add a quart of oil every 1K miles, like some Audi engines require, then within 5K miles you have your oil pretty much changed, huh ;-)
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07-30-2002, 12:30 PM
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LOL - I wish! Sorry, should have been clearer. Assume normal changes througout that period.
My point was that there's nothing wrong with dino, and a modern engine can run quite well on it with normal maintenance.