{"id":5580,"date":"2025-09-06T12:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:17:15","slug":"a8l-d5-70k-miles-oil-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/a8l-d5-70k-miles-oil-change.html","title":{"rendered":"A8L D5 70k Miles Oil Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It&#8217;s 70,300 miles on my Audi A8L D5, time to replace the oil. The 60k miles was done by the Fremont Audi Dealer for $160, now it&#8217;s time to do it myself again. Every 10k miles, the coolant seems to vapored a little, so I have to add some. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/oil-change-on-a8l-d5-55-3-0l-at-50k-miles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">The procedure is the same as before<\/button><\/a>. The dealer used the brand Purflux made in France for the oil filter, but I use STP S45005XL which fits perfectly. Oil is mobil 1 ESP x2, Walmart sells for $28\/5 gallons.<\/em><\/p>\n<link href=\"\/idogjs\/icss\/font-awesome\/css\/ifotorama.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"><script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.11.3\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/idogjs\/ijs\/ifotorama.js\"><\/script>\n<div class='fotorama--wp' data-ids='5581,5582,5583,5584,5585,5586,5587,5588,5589,5590,5591,5592,5593,5594,5595,5596,5597,5598,5599'data-allowfullscreen='yes'data-link='file'data-itemtag='dl'data-icontag='dt'data-captiontag='dd'data-columns='0'data-size='large'data-width='337'data-auto='false'data-max-width='100%'data-ratio='0.56166666666667'><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5580 gallery-columns-0 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_70k_34.jpg' data-full='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_70k_34.jpg'><img 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The 60k miles was done by the Fremont Audi Dealer for $160, now it&#8217;s time to do it myself again. Every 10k miles, the coolant seems to vapored a little, so I have to add some. . The dealer used the brand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/a8l-d5-70k-miles-oil-change.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1157],"tags":[1190,1218,150,379,1217,1216],"class_list":["post-5580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d5","tag-espx2","tag-mobil-1-esp-x2","tag-oil-change-2","tag-oil-filter","tag-purflux","tag-stp-s45005xl"],"views":59,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}