Where is my oil going?

[TimVR 0]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm a little concerned about my VR.

 

It seems to be losing oil at quite a rate - not as much as VW say (1 litre per 1000kms) but not too far off. I'm having to top up to max from half way at least once every couple of weeks or so.

 

What can be causing this? I know it kicks out a bit of smoke at 5k revs - I'm assuming this is related?

 

Can't see any leaks as yet. Car has just ticked over to 70k miles.

 

 

Any ideas, or am just being paranoid?

 

 

Cheers,

 

Tim

[Jim 1]

Well as you say, according to the handbook this is perfectly acceptable oil consumption for the VR6 engine. It is a bit of a monster, and it is known to like its oil as it gets on a bit...

 

If it is concerning you, you could get a VW specialist or dealership to check over the car as I guess its possible for seals or gaskets to have gone somewhere causing excessive oil consumption. I would personally just keep an eye out on it, and see if the oil consumption increases.. if it gets a bit out of control, then get it looked at.

[spoier 0]

I assume you've crawled around under the car to see if there are any leaks?

 

If the pan is clean, then do a compression check. You're looking for a greater than 10% difference between cylinders more than the numbers themselves.

 

There's only really two places the oil can go, either leaking onto the ground somewhere (any oil drops on your parking spot?) or getting past the valves or rings and being burnt up.

 

Skye

[Kevin Bacon 5]

The VR should not smoke and 70K is a young age for it to be doing so.

 

Your oil is too thin or you have engine wear. My 81K VR6 uses about 1/4 litre between it's 6000 mile changes, but I do have a Mocal oil cooler which keeps the temperature below 100 on the move.

 

Kev