I was suspicious that my car was acting funny lately and i checked my oil and found out that i had VERY LITTLE (good thing i was using synthetic) the CEL would come on every now and then and asked tim about it. Tim told me to put 5w40 castrol syntec in it every now and then because the 2.0T are notorious for burning oil. Checked the forum and was told that right before your oilchange, your car would burn about 1/2 the oil that it was being put in. According to Tim, this was normal..!!

Funny, i thought i was leaking oil, but i guess i was burning it!! After doing some research and asking tim, and steve checking my oil, i know invest in a case of castrol syntec 5w40....

i know thoe vortex is not a good source of information but, after my disbelief i found that i am not the only one...
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3940411

yup, youre lucky you havent run completely dry since youve just noticed this, plenty of times ive had to put an extra quart in there between changes.

Damn.... i might wanna go and check my oil..

im at 8k right now gonna schedule my 10k service soon.. seeing they keep sending me that service package in the mail!

Yes sir I have put about seven quarts of oil extra since I owned this car. Kev you need to check from time to time more in the summer time.

word!

i usually just do my oil changes every 3-4k instead of the 5k