The wife's car is starting to get through a fair bit of oil ( 0.5l in 1500 miles)

Is it likely to be a turbo issue or could it just be a breather problem ?

Edited 3 August, 20178 yr by garethw
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6 minutes ago, garethw said:

The wife's car is starting to get through a fair bit of oil ( 0.5l in 1500 miles)

Is it likely to be a turbo issue or could it just be a breather problem ?

 

It's more likely to be turbo seals, disconnect the the bottom pipe from the intercooler and see how much oil runs out of it.

Only enough oil to make the rag dirty in the intercooler, but oil dripping from the centre of the turbo onto the driveshaft.

When you accelerate hard you can make a fair bit of smoke.

2 hours ago, garethw said:

Only enough oil to make the rag dirty in the intercooler, but oil dripping from the centre of the turbo onto the driveshaft.

When you accelerate hard you can make a fair bit of smoke.

 

Get the turbo rebuilt before it goes pop.

I'll get it done ASAP

13 hours ago, garethw said:

Only enough oil to make the rag dirty in the intercooler, but oil dripping from the centre of the turbo onto the driveshaft.

When you accelerate hard you can make a fair bit of smoke.

What colour smoke? White/grey/blue (depending on quantity) is likely to be lubricant, but black is almost certainly diesel.

Hi Ken,I am certain the smoke is oil.

 

So I stripped it down and had the turbo rebuilt at at cost of £180 + the cost of the gaskets and new lock nuts.

The job was not to hard and it took me about 3 hours to strip it and 3 hours to re-build.

Could probably do it faster than that now I have some idea of the best order to do it in.

The oil feed and return were spotless but the EGR and ASR were really caked in black muck.

A fairly decent amount of oil came out of the intercooler and pipework when i cleaned them.

 

Car now drives much better with no smoke, will check the oil consumption once it has run for a month.

 

Thanks for the advice.