Posted on 03/22/2015 10:32:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
What Happens If You Don't Change The Oil In Your Audi For 84,000 Miles 789
If you suddenly feel an urge to go change your car's oil right at this very moment, that's perfectly understandable.
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How can a vehicle even go 84K miles without an oil change? That’s the impressive thing.
Looks fine to me.
There is something inherently racisss about this post!
Looks like Pennzoil.
Heck, spray’er out with a little WD-40, slap the valve cover back on, fill’er up with some new oil and off you go :)
I’ll bet it ran nice and quiet with all of that sound absorbing sludge.
>>If you suddenly feel an urge to go change your car’s oil right at this very moment, that’s perfectly understandable.<<
That is only a small part of why I divorced my 1st wife.
A friend of mine has a Subaru he bought used with ~125K miles on it, and it has over 250K on it now and he’s never changed the oil in it.
Looks good for 16,000 more miles, easy!
That black goop is very slippery, and will lubricate!
You do not need to change oil if the car burns a quart every few thousand miles and you keep adding oil to it.
I bought a 2002 Camry with 93k on it for $900 a couple of years ago. Same problem. Followed this http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/sludge/cleaning_sludge.html and threw in new valve seals and timing set. Good to go for @ $300. Driving it since. Any yes, I am a mechanic.
Yes, I did once own an Audi back in 1975-80, biggest POS I ever owned. Unbelievable amount of stuff crapped out.
A friend had a 5000 in the early 80's and had similar experiences.
Both cars were fine when new. Just junk components. The reason for their wretched resale value? Dunno if Audi learned their lesson and sources quality parts now.
In WWII, lots of trucks went without ever having oil changed. It was often easier to get new vehicles than to get oil.
I am 56 years old and have owned 21 new cars. None of them burned oil at any appreciable rate until 2004 when I bought a 2005 Chrysler Town & Country minivan with the 3.8L engine.
Right off the bat the darned thing would burn over two quarts of oil between the 4000 mile changes. As an aside I use full synthetic oil so I pushed this auto to 4000 miles changes. Anyway, two different dealers told me flat out that was normal and my original dealer even did a compression check for me (they were the best dealer from which I had purchased a car). I now have 108,000 miles and it still burns that oil but runs great.
Once the sludge gets hit by fresh air it's like cancer - it metastasizes.
Shade Tree Mechanic's saw - "Never give an enema to an old horse."
The old style Audis (DKW) ran perfectly well without ever changing oil, you just added oil when you added gasoline...
Back in ‘82 when I was a line mechanic at a Ford garage, a car came in that needed a rocker cover gasket replaced. The cover didn’t come loose so I smacked it with a rubber mallet. It popped loose and dumped about two quarts of jet-black oil on my nice, just-cleaned stall floor. Seems the oil drain holes through the head were plugged with sludge like in the pic above. $#@*!
In the gas trucks that averaged 200 miles per day I never changed oil and usually rebuilt them at about 200K miles and they were totally clean when they came apart but I did change filters about every 10,000 miles.
I changed oil on the diesel engines because it can turn acid about every 10,000 miles.
Oil doesn't war out but if you go 10 miles to the market and back and mostly short trips the oil gets dirty and contaminated with water and carbon and should be changed at 4-5000 miles.
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