Water in the oil

[skinnyman9000 0]

This is about a mk4 golf, but its all the same problem.

 

My mate has a fatty white deposit at the bottom of his dipstick, indicated water in the system. What causes this? And like cost to get sorted.

 

Cheers

 

Chris

[VR6 0]

Head gasket more than likely.

 

Note the deliberate avoidance of a joke about your mate's dipstick covered in white deposit.

[skinnyman9000 0]

Head gasket more than likely.

 

Note the deliberate avoidance of a joke about your mate's dipstick covered in white deposit.

 

:lol: :lol: We all said that as i was writing it too!

[Crasher 3]

They do that from short journey work; don’t worry about it until you see a definite lose of coolant.

[Henny 0]

as above... and if you do see loss of coolant or gaining of oil level/coffee then don't instantly assume it's the head gasket... could also be the oil heat exchanger/cooler/thingy as they can break down internally throwing oil into the water and visa-versa making you think it's a head gasket gone... :|

[jonnyboyo 0]

My 1800cc (carb) Rocco used to do get a bit of white gunky stuff on the dipstick. My mechanic said it was coz i was only doing short journeys to work. I took the car on a long motorway journey (215 miles) and hey presto, zero white gunk!!

[skinnyman9000 0]

Could be that then, he drives it 3 miles to work, 3 miles back, rarely has a journey over 5 miles, then again its about the same for my C

[MNuTz 0]

yeah, its a build up of condensation thats causing it.

 

Tell him to go for a good 20 mile + blast and then check, its should be fine after.