OIL LEAK! pipe near turbo or diverter valve??

[Snoopy]

Thanks mate will try that at the weekend. Must admit I'm tempted to have it rolling roaded just to make sure everthing is working as it should before the warrenty runs out in march.

Eyeballpaul
Best of luck I hope its not the water pump as I bet that's quite a job on the mk6 it was on my mk1 Leon the other week.

[EyeballPaul]

VW have agreed to reimburse me 40% of the cost of the repair, not great but better than nothing. They said the original diagnosis when it was in warranty was correct, as you get as he put it "oil misting and some droplets in the area are normal"

I do find that hard to believe, but there we go.

[EyeballPaul]

Well after 4 weeks of checking my oil leak after it was fixed it has all been fine,until yesterday when i checked and the leak is back in exactly the same place. So back to the dealers againto see whats going on.

I swear my car is cursed, was driving yesterday with all the family in it and someone pulled out on me when i was overtaking, so i now have a big scrape down the whole passenger side of the car. Smething else to sort out now.

But atleast the coolant leak seems to be fixed, and noone was hurt in the scrape we had.

[Snoopy]

Not good on either counts.
I had hoped this would have fixed the leak.

Mine after 2 weeks ~300 miles is dry round the intake pipes. I just checked it yesterday infact.  I dont know about what the turbo is like as I've been unable to get it on the lift to check. I had hoped to run it longer but its been parked up the past few weeks due to local weather (floods, now sheet ice and snow) so been using the other car.

A split diverter valve can also cause oil vapour round the turbo from what I've read.

But If its the pipes again I don't see why the air pipes should leak oil if they do then they leak air and if they are leaking air then its after the air flow sensor so that's going to screw all the ecu calculations up.
 
PS it's easy to remove the diverter valve just one plug and 3 bolts. Then check the diaphragm is not split.

[EyeballPaul]

Cheers Snoopy, it going back into the garage, i paid £350 for this repair as im out of warranty so im going to make sure the garage sort it properly. Obviously something else on the system is causing the seal to fail, so there is an over pressure somewhere

[stu79]

Sorry to hear that your leak has returned  On reading this I went out and checked mine. 3,200 miles since repair and no sign of leak returning. I think they only changed the air intake on mine and I suspect this is the documented fix for this problem. Might be worth looking at your invoice to see whether they changed that part on yours...

[EyeballPaul]

They changed the air intake pipe and part of the fine oil seperator, but i guess something else is causing the proble. So i will see what they have to say tomorrow.

[EyeballPaul]

Well im booked in for next Monday, i cant get the car in before them as im working away from home this week,im getting abit sick of driving to the dealers at the moment, one thing after another.

Lets see what they find this time, ill be sure to show them this thread.

[Snoopy]

Open the bonnet...Start the car....Goto the top of the engine and loosen the oil filler cap and lift it up slightly....Do the revs drop for about a second before recovering?



Others that may cause the oil leak.
Fine oil seperator/PCV valve.
Diverter valve.
Turbo.
Breather pipe blocked.

[EyeballPaul]

Ill do that check on Friday when i get home to the car