Is there a known issue of “higher than normal” oil consumption on these engines?

I put higher than normal in quotes as I am basing this on all other cars I have owned in the last 30 years that use very little oil, compared to my son’s Fabia 2 needs the oil topping up frequently, seemingly particularly long runs on the motorway.

It’s not excessively high mileage, and the exhaust doesn’t seem to show any sign of oil smoke as one might expect if say the rings were tired.

 

I have searched the forums for high oil consumption for this engine and couldn’t find anything but that could be my poor search skills.

when looking on the wider net I found a report of someone with an 07 Audi with presumably the same engine with a problem with the oil breather pipe, but this may be a red herring as it said that the problem was fixed by an upgrade from 08 onwards…

 

any thoughts or suggestions of things to look at for a possible easy fix?

Its a problem they will live with sooner than parting with a load of cash…

 

What age is this car and how many miles or km has it covered?    How many litres of oil might it use in 1,000 miles?           Is the oil level being checked at operating temp and not overfilled?   And what oil is being used is it 5w 30 FS III or 5w 40 FS or some other?

 

 

 

 

Edited 22 June, 20214 yr by e-Roottoot

It’s 08 with 90k miles, more than I thought.

On a recent (largely motorway) run of around 400miles it went through close to a litre of 5w30…

 

No point putting long life oil in it. Not even sure that the factory gave them the service code for variable / flexible servicing in 2008.    So as well getting 5w 40 FS so to VW 502 00 and put that in.      Others might know about the BTS engines.       I have not seen anyone posting here or in the Roomster section about then having excessive oil use issues. 

 

EDIT.

Edited 23 June, 20214 yr by e-Roottoot

You need to check for evidence of a possible leak, particularly around the sump and sump plug and the oil filter.

No evidence of significant leak, no pools or even oil drops below the car when it is parked

 

As it seems it could be associated with motorway driving, may be it is being burnt at higher revs but oil fumes are less visible from the exhaust when traveling at speed ??

Bithanks to both of you for contributing….