AudiAllTheWay

What are you waiting for? Go ahead and file one. It will take less energy and be more productive than all the endless whining.

2kwik4u

Are you soaking them all at once, or are you using the "soak 2 at a time at TDC" process that was outlined in the video awhile back? Not judging, just curious,

I can't find the time to get mine done before we leave for FL in 7 days. I'm gonna roll the dice and do the road trip, pulling the boat, with the car in the state it's in. Just over 121k miles now. Will be a shade over 2,500 miles of towing over ~9days time.

cW6mT mKviGLi

The sequence of ops for me has been 2 at a time with two cylinders at TDC, then about 10 to 15 crank rotations, and doing two more.

I also had the challenge of time since the Q7 is used more than any vehicle in the household and there has just been alot happening in life lately. It has been quite interesting doing errands and having the family drive around in my wife's S3. My wife said within the first half hour that "I miss the Q7", lol.

Good luck and I hope that your FL trip goes well and without any unplanned vehicle related hiccups.

kelisko

Here we go again. Well, come make me. I'm sure I've been more helpful around here than you ever going to be with your 40-year supposed car experience not including this engine you don't own and know nothing about. Yeah, praise to Audi for making such a "great" engine which is why there is such a lengthy thread where dozens and dozens of people are reporting how their great engine is doing great! Audi is the best! Audi all the way... Yay!

AudiAllTheWay

Again can you PLEASE take all your endless whining to another post and leave the adults to use this post in order to help those who actually want help.

Thanks

ncnmra

I'm also curious on the Valvoline Restore and/or Restore & Protect options. @silver_tt : did you try this yet?

cW6mT mKviGLi

I was actually researching this motor oil, yesterday. I was unable to find a version with the 5w40 weight specification.

ncnmra

There isn't one. If you look back through this thread there was some good discussion. At first I thought it was more snake oil, but there's a great video from "The Motor Oil Geek" (also linked in this thread) that goes into some details and seems to show verifiable results. There is a bunch of talk online of the products and I haven't found anything negative, which I actually found surprising.

TL;DR:
Valvoline Premium Blue Restore Gen2 only comes in a 10W30, and is formulated for / only available through Cummins dealers. It is very aggressive, but apparently works extremely well with only one oil change. I believe it was designed for the Cummins diesel engines and intended only to be used by qualified mechanics to prevent it "working too well" and clogging up filters etc. @silver_tt said he was going to try on his 2.0T.

Valvoline "Restore & Protect" is a newer product line that comes in various weights, but not 5W40 (only 5W30). It is a different formulation but claims to "clean up to 100%" within four oil changes

I haven't dug too deep but I can't find either of these in Canada. I suspect you could get away with the 5W30 in colder temperatures, but I'm not sure if I want to be the guinnea pig, especially since my consumption is very low ATM (about 500mL / 6000kms).

2kwik4u

This is potentially a great solution. it's the least "invasive" and easiest to implement.

I might go this route when I get home from FL. I'm so damn strapped of time I'm not sure I'll ever get the soak procedure done. I can run an oil change and a couple filters without much impact.

Actually had some found and reserved for me at the beginning of the year at the Louisville, KY Cummins Service Center. If anyone is in that area I would suspect they still have it on the shelf, as I never made it back to purchase it.

gbgastowers

Is this the same stuff on Amazon?