B8.5 S5 Oil Change

[connor18]

Hey guys I am about to do my first oil change on my 2013 Audi S5 with 81k miles on it. Never done an oil change before as it’s my first car. What oil type do you guys recommend and is there anything else you guys recommend I do while I’m changing the oil? Thanks

[hahnmgh63]

I'm a Redline fan and use 5w-40. It has about the highest HTHS (High Temp, High Shear) rating of any oil out there. 5w-40 should cover your Ohio temps. Whatever you use it's better to spend a little more on top quality oil and have a little insurance than going cheap, especially if you want to keep the car and/or drive it hard once in a while. I stick with OEM Mann, Audi, Mahle, and/or Hengst filters. Just a little more insurance is to decrease engine wear by installing a Magnetic drain plug. This guy is a little gun ho but he knows his stuff and popular with many engine builders and Total Seal engine rings https://www.youtube.com/@speediagnostix I use both SpeedDiagnostix and Blackstone for oil analysis. Any thing you can do to get wear particles out of your oil decreases engine wear. They can only make the passages in an oil filter so small without hurting oil pressure so it's a compromise. I do 6k miles with my Redline and my oil analysis are great, 70k miles and it's been runing as a Stg2 for the last 20k miles.

[03TLSinCO]

While hahnmgh63 is not a fan of this (see his comments about adding a magnetic drain plug), there are some that use the method in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP7is4n-8qw

Also FCP Euro, as mentioned in the video, will let you return your used oil and filter and provide new ones free of charge. Buy once, never pay again. Sounds like a great deal to me. (I have never used this method, as I had free service with my car for the first 3 years that I owned it, and my local dealer has offered me free oil changes each year since then. I've driven 5k or few miles each year.)

As hahnmgh63 points out, the approach he uses ensures the best possible removal of old oil and contaminants. The method used in the video will likely be "good enough", but is not the best possible way. The choice is yours. Save time with good enough or spend the extra time and effort on the best possible approach.

[Neil F]

- must be the correct weight
- must be synthetic
- must be have the approved Audi additive standards
- you may get tons of recommendations for brands. Independent tests do find SLIGHT differences in protections and breakdown BUT any major brand that meets the above is fine. Here is an Audi list of approved oils. There are others https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/20...28350-9999.pdf

I recommend an oil extractor. Makes it an easy 15 min no mess job. Many threads will debate the extractor (search on the term and read). There are a number of extractors. My advice is to get one with a ridged insertion tube. Flimsy thin walled bendable tube May bend when the hit the bottom. They will not get all of the oil and may get stuck as posted in some threads. I have a schwaben.