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MMI doesn't show exact values for oil levels and post a dealer visit I wanted to drain some oil. It was extracted this time and it's clear less oil comes out vs a gravity drain (dealer fills in the same amount of oil each time so that's a controlled variable).
Anyway, here you go. Some data points. I was totally a**** and drained + refilled a few times to get near 100% If you use OBD11, you can get a much better understanding of the total oil level fill. Note I have no idea what test method 1, 2, 3 are but they're not live. They update maybe like every 5 minutes or something. Interestingly enough total mass of fuel/alcohol in oil ended up at 0g after about 20 minutes. As such, a cold start dumps in quite a bit of fuel into the system but it all evaporates. Hence why short trips in the winter are really bad.
It seems 85ml is "full" for the EA839 engine.
Last edited by angrypengu; 05-12-2024 at 03:39 AM.
Interesting. I wonder why there is a variance in the percentage levels in the screen shots.
That I don't know, but what is also fairly interesting is the tolerance. Post service I was at 109% and there is a warning in the MMI that will be thrown if the engine oil level is too high (it never went off). I guess Audi accounted for variances for overfilling...
Here I am trying to get it to 100.0%. I'm not German, I swear
That I don't know, but what is also fairly interesting is the tolerance. Post service I was at 109% and there is a warning in the MMI that will be thrown if the engine oil level is too high (it never went off). I guess Audi accounted for variances for overfilling...
Here I am trying to get it to 100.0%. I'm not German, I swear
05-11-2024, 05:06 PM
Interesting "data" for oil levels
If you use OBD11, you can get a much better understanding of the total oil level fill. Note I have no idea what test method 1, 2, 3 are but they're not live. They update maybe like every 5 minutes or something. Interestingly enough total mass of fuel/alcohol in oil ended up at 0g after about 20 minutes. As such, a cold start dumps in quite a bit of fuel into the system but it all evaporates. Hence why short trips in the winter are really bad.
