A4 1.8t oil sludge

[LadyHawk]

Anyone succesfully get it fixed by the dealer? Anyone who didn't? Share your stories.

[audipotential]

Anyone succesfully get it fixed by the dealer? Anyone who didn't? Share your stories.

Hehe Silly girl
I can tell your worried..

[LadyHawk]

You got that right. I love my A4 I'd hate to see her sit. Can't take anymore for today but I'll be glued to my work computer all day tomorrow.

[LadyHawk]

No one?

[doublezero30]

there are many people who did, but ill repeat what was already said in the other thread. you must have ALL your oil change reciepts. ALL. and hope audi has records for the previous owner or doesnt care about the previous owner. i believe on a lease vehicle you have to perform the services, or it voids the lease. i could be wrong on that though. we know your worried, but please dont create thread after thread after thread about this. get it to the dealer or even better, rather than asking a bunch of owners if youll be covered, call audi! they will beable to tell you more than we will.

[Amze]

I purchased my car at 38k Miles in October of 06'

It ran perfect, changed the oil with "Royal Purple - Synthetic" at a local lube shop every 3-4k...I had made long trips sucessfully car was still fairly stock.

In July of 07' I moved back to Phoenix from Dallas. Its 16 hour drive, car had its oil changed two weeks ago *Supposedly* and it was running normal as ever.. checked the oil level before I left, everything was good... about 6 hours into the trip the oil light comes on in the middle of no where, I'm with my uncle and its like 'wtf'... So we decide to find a place to have the oil fully changed again, pay 70$, drive BACKWARDS about 30 miles to a small lube shop in the middle of no where. We get that done, continue foward.. and sure enough the light comes back on, we pull over. Car is idling/running normal, temperatures are normal.. the oil HAS BEEN CHANGED on time, and was JUST changed. Everything looks alright.. so we said 'eff it' we're not gonna strand ourselves out here, we continue foward... about 3 hours later in a nice town just outside 'El Paso' the engine just dies, fully cease's running. Out of the blue, perfect to nothing... no over heating, no nothing. Just dies... Luckily my uncle whipped it off the offramp and coasted to a gas station because we were in construction and had no where to pull over, and would have backed up about 20 semis. So... then we go back 50 miles in a cab with other people to El Paso, and rent a Mazda and happily make it on our way to Phoenix.

Now my car... Was at a Volkswagon dealer in El Paso, Audi has my dad pay 500$ to take it from there to Tucson Arizona, an Audi dealer down there. They look at it, decide it was due to "Oil Sludge" which I figured... but what I think is that lube shop was never changing my oil, because that doesn't happen. Luckily I had receipts all saved proving I changed my oil more than every 10k. Audi awarded me doing everything I could to prevent oil sludge and gave me a brand new engine.

I am now at 10k miles, on a brand new engine, turbo, tubes.. they used my old clutch, transmission, air conditioning. But overall its worth it.. now I practically have a new B6. But it was a hassle, it took them 2 months to complete the work and they made it very clear I wasn't on their priority list.

They even told me the car would be done on "Insert date here" about 5-6 times, and I made plans to drive two hours to Tucson.. then they'd call right before I'm about to leave. "Ummm sir, we aren't finished yet. You are missing "blah blah" we need to get that from Germany..." Its like holy shit, come on now... Just tell me when its done.

So yeah, very stressful, but they paid for it ALL and awarded my dad his 500$ back for moving the car. Worth it in the end...

[Tgr_Clw]

People please differentiate what kind of an oil light it was.
There is the yellow min. oil one that just tells you that the oil level is low.

I get a min. oil warming every 5 months or so. No big deal.

Then there's the red oil pressure warning light. If that light turns on stop driving the car immediately.

[sloweryucf]

I get the oil level low all the time. I think there is some gunk getting on the sensor because I pour a little bit of valve medic or whatever in there and it goes away. Oil level is always fine.

[LadyHawk]

It was the giant red oil light, we pulled over within a minute or so. I might call a different Audi dealer ship and ask directly for the service manager. Then I'll deal with Audi corporate. I am italian and I can be very persuasive. I just don't know if I have the energy to battle it.

[Papachristou]

thats terrible, you better have the energy or the $$$... i had a 03 jetta and about 60k miles i hit a pothole and it deployed all my drivers side airbags (not steering wheel) VW dealer told me to F off, not their problem, out of warranty, i took it to VoA and pushed and pushed and they covered the whole repair...... $3500

defintitely mention the BBB along with all the consumer affairs stuff and how much you have read online of this being a problem, plus they updated their oil filter design/size in an attempt to reduce number of people who were getting sludge

[Amze]

People please differentiate what kind of an oil light it was.
There is the yellow min. oil one that just tells you that the oil level is low.

I get a min. oil warming every 5 months or so. No big deal.

Then there's the red oil pressure warning light. If that light turns on stop driving the car immediately.

The light I encountered.. wasn't even a light.

My entire display that shows temperature, radio station, gas being low.. was taken over by a dripping oil can.

[LadyHawk]

That was me.

[Amze]

That was me.

Good luck, thing is I didn't pull over *For good*.. i changed the oil and drove until it ceased.