Audi A4 2010 TFSI oil consumption

[Michael-ei416]

Bought a car a couple of weeks ago and noticed some issues on day 1. Oil light was on which I initially put down to the journey of around 200 miles but on further investigation found all the posts about this engine/year and the oil issues (2010 2.0 TFSI)

Then the car would intermittently judder when I put my foot down, this got progressively worse until this morning when I just about managed to limp the car to a local performance garage to run a full diagnostic (VCDS)

Here's what it found:

Engine malfunctions:
Cylinder 2 - Misfire detected
Cylinder Disabling
Random Cylinder misfires
Engine off timer performance
CAN gateway (not sure what this is)

The engine mgmt light is nearly always on now and the car pretty much undriveable.

They were also very suspicious that the only fault code data found was from the day I had the car delivered (3/9) they expected a large print out from VCDS as the car is nine years old and apparently keeps a historic record of any error reports - I'm guessing they wiped all previous codes before selling it?

I'm liaising with their warranty partner (AA) and want a full refund including my delivery costs and diagnostic tests. I also paid on a credit card so have started a section 75 which is ongoing

If this is resolved, any tips on finding a decent Audi? am I best avoiding this year and engine? I was after something for around 6k and 200bhp standard - this ticked the box and was a lovely drive for the day or so it didn't fall over!

[silentbrown]

Michael-ei416 said:

If this is resolved, any tips on finding a decent Audi? am I best avoiding this year and engine? I was after something for around 6k and 200bhp standard - this ticked the box and was a lovely drive for the day or so it didn't fall over!

I had one from about 2012 to 2015. Loved it, but the oil consumption problem hit in the last year. At the time Audi had finally acknowledged the problem and were fixing most cars FOC, as long as they had complete service history. Fixing is a major job, with new pistons/rings needed. I've no idea if the fix is permanent or only lasts another 50K miles...

Find one that's has the work already done, with receipts - like this https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

[Michael-ei416]

silentbrown said:

I had one from about 2012 to 2015. Loved it, but the oil consumption problem hit in the last year. At the time Audi had finally acknowledged the problem and were fixing most cars FOC, as long as they had complete service history. Fixing is a major job, with new pistons/rings needed. I've no idea if the fix is permanent or only lasts another 50K miles...

Find one that's has the work already done, with receipts - like this https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

That's a good find. The trader lied to me about FSH (their advert is still online saying full history!) so Audi wouldn't go near it

[ahenners]

Yup piston rings most likely; a known common issue on VAG cars manufactured around that time. I had an Octavia VRS from 2010'which drank oil too.