Volkswagen EA888 series engine can be said to be a famous engine under the Volkswagen Group, in terms of power, fuel economy, adaptability have a very good performance, by many car companies reverse research and development, but it can be said that it has been reversed, has never been surpassed. But EA888 is widely complained about is the problem of burning oil, Volkswagen and Audi owners have to keep a few bottles of oil in the trunk, but some people say that EA888 does not burn oil, so in the end Volkswagen's EA888 engine does not burn oil?
In fact, the problem of EA888 burning oil has not been completely solved so far, but in fact, the third generation of EA888 burning oil phenomenon has been greatly alleviated, basically does not affect the use. Why does EA888 burn engine oil? Some people once washed the floor for the EA888, saying that Volkswagen's engine burned engine oil because the domestic oil products were not good, and some people said that it was because the domestic air was not good, which was really the city god old man pulling the huqin ———— the ghost. The EA888 engine burning oil is simply a design defect, because the EA888 in Europe also has the problem of burning oil. Why does the EA888 burn the oil, first of all, the turbocharged engine itself consumes more oil, and secondly, this engine has some design defects that are difficult to solve, this engine reserves a larger gap between the piston ring and the piston sleeve to reserve more thermal expansion space for the aluminum piston ring at high temperatures. However, in stop-and-go conditions, the piston ring does not reach the predetermined temperature, and the reserved gap will consume the oil, resulting in a significant increase in oil consumption.
The third generation of EA888 basically solves the problem of burning oil The first generation of the second generation of EA888 burning oil problem is indeed very serious, basically it is impossible to get maintenance and change of oil, two or three thousand kilometers of oil lamp on the light, so the owner will always have a few barrels of oil. But this problem has been effectively solved on the third generation of EA888, the third generation of EA888 redesigned the piston ring, the oil and gas separator was changed to two-stage separation, the burning oil situation has been significantly improved, every 5000km consumption of oil does not exceed 300ml, even if you maintain 10,000 kilometers once, the oil consumed is only 0.6L, but the oil filled for each maintenance is about 4-5 liters, so it does not affect the use at all.
If you mind the problem of burning oil, please pay attention to which generation of EA888 engine this car uses when purchasing a Volkswagen model, and check out the feedback of car owners on the forum.