B5 A4 Reliability Questions

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Feb 24, 2015 | 12:34 PM

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redline380

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From: st cloud, mn. you too? hit me up...

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Originally Posted by A4TurboGuy

I change it myself, set the next interval at 15K miles, but I change the filter every 5K miles, which causes you to add a couple fresh quarts of oil to the engine, "freshening everything up" - so to speak.

Take off your valve cover and take a photo of it. I would love to see what kind of sludge build up you have

Feb 25, 2015 | 09:43 AM

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A4TurboGuy

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From: Cincy

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Originally Posted by redline380

Take off your valve cover and take a photo of it. I would love to see what kind of sludge build up you have

I don't have any. I just had my Audi tech replace all of my gaskets (valve cover, cam, timing/crank, etc.

I even had him change the half moon gaskets in the back of the engine (the ones that make tons of guys unnecessarily replace their valve cover gaskets, because they don't know about, or think about them as being the problem).

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