Diesel Fumes
Veteran Member
My TDI has been such a good little car until a few days ago. Heres what happened:
I was driving on the highway for a long time. Just about to hit 800km for the day. Coming down a big hill i heard a buzz, never heard it before and never thought anything of it. Kept driving then a few moments later at the bottom of the hill, the oil light came on. Then the buzzer again. I immediately put it in neutral and shut the engine down and coasted to a stop.
I get out, pop the hood, look around. And there is a huge puddle of oil underneath the car. Near the backside kinda below the turbo. At this point I wanted to cry, I closed the hood and did what I had to do, call a tow truck. Luckily I was almost back home again.
So the car sat in the driveway for a few days until today when I decided to investigate. Only the backside of the engine and turbo are coated with oil. So I suspect the oil came from there somewhere. I can't tell exactly where it is coming from. At first I thought it was the oil line because I stupidly reused it when I had the exhaust mani off changing gaskets. Then I took the intercooler piping apart and found a ton of oil inside of there too. What does this mean? Is my turbo toast? How hard is it to change just a turbo?
I understand that there is a number of places where the oil could come from. Blown turbo seals, blown head gasket (I doubt this one), main seals? Oil line?
The thing is though, the oil came out crazy fast after I stopped. Looked like about at least half a liter under the car. And I walked back down the road and saw oil drops everywhere, though the road was wet so it could have made it look worse than it was.
I ended up adding just a liter of oil and it brought it back up to where it was supposed to be. Ugh, Im just so sad now. My poor TDI!!! Someone hold me...
I was driving on the highway for a long time. Just about to hit 800km for the day. Coming down a big hill i heard a buzz, never heard it before and never thought anything of it. Kept driving then a few moments later at the bottom of the hill, the oil light came on. Then the buzzer again. I immediately put it in neutral and shut the engine down and coasted to a stop.
I get out, pop the hood, look around. And there is a huge puddle of oil underneath the car. Near the backside kinda below the turbo. At this point I wanted to cry, I closed the hood and did what I had to do, call a tow truck. Luckily I was almost back home again.
So the car sat in the driveway for a few days until today when I decided to investigate. Only the backside of the engine and turbo are coated with oil. So I suspect the oil came from there somewhere. I can't tell exactly where it is coming from. At first I thought it was the oil line because I stupidly reused it when I had the exhaust mani off changing gaskets. Then I took the intercooler piping apart and found a ton of oil inside of there too. What does this mean? Is my turbo toast? How hard is it to change just a turbo?
I understand that there is a number of places where the oil could come from. Blown turbo seals, blown head gasket (I doubt this one), main seals? Oil line?
The thing is though, the oil came out crazy fast after I stopped. Looked like about at least half a liter under the car. And I walked back down the road and saw oil drops everywhere, though the road was wet so it could have made it look worse than it was.
I ended up adding just a liter of oil and it brought it back up to where it was supposed to be. Ugh, Im just so sad now. My poor TDI!!! Someone hold me...
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