Hi guys.

Been battling with this car mk1 vrs for some 5 yr now to get it to run right. But to no avail! Id actually doing my head in but the car doesnt really cause me a great deal of grief and ita worth fook all (previous write off for rear quater panel damage).

Ive always checked my oil regularly and kept to servicing schedules using castrol edge 5w30 (i believe this is correct as cant bring to mind - own other cars too). Now recently i have noticed a pronounced smell of fuel when removing the dip stick. Smelling the oil confirms theres fuel present there.

Does anyone have an opinion as to what is the cause? I may have a weeping rocker cover (cleaned off area today and will check over the next couple of day to confirm if it is); but other than that i cant see much as a give away.

Any help or guidence is appreciated.

Cheers

does the oil level rise?

Nope doesnt seem too. If anything the car is actually using a bit of oil. Not an alarming amount. Im running a full vacuum and breather simplification with oil catch tank. Im just wondering if this is an early sign of a bigger issue(s)

It can happen if you only ever do short runs and never let the car fully warm up. Or it could be a leaking injector, although I'd have thought that would also cause a rougher than normal idle

Now you mention it the car does have leaky injector cups. I get a lovely golden stain around the base of the injectors that i clean regularly to see how bad they are. But my local skoda dealer will only sell me an injector and not the plastic cup it sits in :/ This is on all 4 injectors too.

Well looks like ive sorted my issue. Took inlet mani off today and removed injectors. They were absolutely caked in crud. Cleaned injector cups and added some low mileage BAM injectors with a new 3 bar fuel pressure reg. Oil change tomorrow but thankfully no more boost surge and the car drives like a dream! Woo hoo