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Offline MoshiMoshi

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Dat Oil Leak
« on: 08 March 2013, 20:44 »
Got a decent oil leak, been losing some lately and I do need to top up occasionally. Can smell burning oil if I drive the car hard, and at night, with my lights on I can see faint wispy smoke coming from under the bonnet near the lights.

Today I had a look under the car and the turbo, wastegate actuator and EVERYTHING ELSE anywhere near it is covered in fresh oil.

Any ideas what could be leaking guys?

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Offline barrym381

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Re: Dat Oil Leak
« Reply #1 on: 08 March 2013, 20:46 »
prob an oil feed pipe to the turbo  :smiley:

Offline MoshiMoshi

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Re: Dat Oil Leak
« Reply #2 on: 08 March 2013, 21:40 »
I thought that, but the turbo runs well and isn't noisy. I don't know enough about the turbo to find the oil feed. Where is it located? What does it look like?
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Offline MoshiMoshi

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Re: Dat Oil Leak
« Reply #3 on: 10 March 2013, 01:22 »
A shameless self bump is in order here. Still haven't found any clues myself :(
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Re: Dat Oil Leak
« Reply #4 on: 10 March 2013, 01:46 »
The oil feed pipe should be the top one that goes the the bearing housing (middle bit)
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Re: Dat Oil Leak
« Reply #5 on: 14 March 2013, 14:21 »
Had it in for an MOT yesterday which it passed somehow. I didn't question it, I just accepted it  :grin: The garage reckon it's the rocker cover gasket. Quite likely now that I think of it, I'll let them do the job as I simply haven't got the time to do it these days.
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