This is where the US Tax Code comes from, in case anyone is curious. Look just above and to the left of the central gap; you can see the tax code in all its glory right there. Nasty, ugly, shocking - and not likely to get any better in the future unless big changes are made.
How can a vehicle even go 84K miles without an oil change? That’s the impressive thing.
Looks fine to me.
There is something inherently racisss about this post!
Heck, spray’er out with a little WD-40, slap the valve cover back on, fill’er up with some new oil and off you go :)
I’ll bet it ran nice and quiet with all of that sound absorbing sludge.
>>If you suddenly feel an urge to go change your car’s oil right at this very moment, that’s perfectly understandable.<<
That is only a small part of why I divorced my 1st wife.
Looks good for 16,000 more miles, easy!
That black goop is very slippery, and will lubricate!
Yes, I did once own an Audi back in 1975-80, biggest POS I ever owned. Unbelievable amount of stuff crapped out.
A friend had a 5000 in the early 80's and had similar experiences.
Both cars were fine when new. Just junk components. The reason for their wretched resale value? Dunno if Audi learned their lesson and sources quality parts now.
Once the sludge gets hit by fresh air it's like cancer - it metastasizes.
Shade Tree Mechanic's saw - "Never give an enema to an old horse."
The old style Audis (DKW) ran perfectly well without ever changing oil, you just added oil when you added gasoline...
Back in ‘82 when I was a line mechanic at a Ford garage, a car came in that needed a rocker cover gasket replaced. The cover didn’t come loose so I smacked it with a rubber mallet. It popped loose and dumped about two quarts of jet-black oil on my nice, just-cleaned stall floor. Seems the oil drain holes through the head were plugged with sludge like in the pic above. $#@*!
In the gas trucks that averaged 200 miles per day I never changed oil and usually rebuilt them at about 200K miles and they were totally clean when they came apart but I did change filters about every 10,000 miles.
I changed oil on the diesel engines because it can turn acid about every 10,000 miles.
Oil doesn't war out but if you go 10 miles to the market and back and mostly short trips the oil gets dirty and contaminated with water and carbon and should be changed at 4-5000 miles.
Looks like a straight-6.
What Audi model would that be, then? Can’t recall any Audi with a straight-6.
Had an Army buddy that claimed he could that up by running transmission fluid as an oil substitute for a few days.
Synthetic will not do that.
Looks a lot like a Chrysler 2.7 from the late 90s/early 00s.
If it burns/leaks a quart every week, in a month you have changed your oil. Assuming you added oil to keep it running.
My dad used to tell of how he never changed oil. He’d be plowing (with a 1930’s something tractor), a rod would start to knock. He carried the stuff needed, dropped the oil, the pan, took off a rod cap, filed it, put it back together, poured the same oil back in, and went back to work. All out in some dusty dirty field where just about anything could get blown into the engines insides and make grinding compound.
He bought a brand new 1964 Ford with a 292 in it, never changed oil. The engine lasted about 60,000 miles. He repeated that with a new Fairlane, same results.