How much is too much ???

The car is just shy of 150K so I'm expecting a bit of crap in there

I had a little look from the bottom hose without removing the IC yesterday. Well I took a photo as the car was jacked and I'll be ******ed if I was going to stick my head under it

Doesn't look to bad to me, stuck a screwdriver in there and there was a drip on the end. I would assume that if turbo seals were knackered there would be a fair bit in there.

I'm also guessing it would run out of the bottom hole when you remove the pipe if it was a problem.

Heres a pic of the pancake pipe which looks OK too me, although I'm not really sure how much is OK.

And the intercooler, which upon a second look could be coated in oil rather than swimming in it. Being colour blind doesn't help either as this picture just looks wieerd to me if I'm honest.

I was wondering the same thing after I had one of my pipes off the other day. Yours looks cleaner than mine.

The car never uses any oil though.

That's clean ;-)

I was wondering the same thing after I had one of my pipes off the other day. Yours looks cleaner than mine.

The car never uses any oil though.

Now mine use a litre every 1000 miles roughly, so it could down to the valve stem seals as I can smell it on cold start.

So Clive am I right in assuming a problem would have oil pouring out when disconnecting the bottom hose ??

That doesn't look bad to me, I've seen worse on diesels mainly, that don't have any issues. I've heard of a little trick that the taxi drivers do, they drill a small hole at the lowest point of the intercooler and plug it with a self tapping screw, periodically they'll remove the screw to drain any excessive oil.

Yeah would be alot worse than that

With that oil consumption its 99% stem seals :-(

Best way to cure it is fit a catch can if you don't want crap in the pipes;--)

Whats the deal with valve stem seals then ??

Do they go hard, I was told that happens and then oil seeps down into the cylinders.

Are they a mare to change ??

Catch can sounds good but I can't be arsed lol

to change valve seals you need to remove the cylinder head,and then remove the camshafts,lifters....Is not a nightmare,but a laborious job

1l of oil in 1000 miles is alot...I would recommend to do a compresion test first to exclude piston rings,and then think a about valve seals

Edited 17 February, 201313 yr by IulianE

what oil you running in it and how often is it changed

1L every 1000 miles....i'de say he changes it every 4.5k miles,LOL!

Synta Platinum every 10k on the dot.

Never used to use any , that said the handbook states a litre every 1k is permissable.

1l every 1000miles is permissable if you live in Saudi Arabia and you drive most of time at 130mph at 50ded outside temp