Hello to the community!
My car is a 2006 vw jetta with the 1.6 bse engine, also used in octavia mk2 and leon mk2.
Car has 152000km on it right now and through the years it has been fairly reliable. The only problems were a leaking valve cover gasket and a failed a/c compressor, both solved for under 300euros. Car has had a hard life with lots of redline driving, but it has been maintained with 15.000km oil changes with 5w30 and sometimes 5w40 oil grade.
Till the previous oil change at ~135.000kms car was using no oil at all. Maybe a little bit, but it wasn't even noticable. During the procedure of removing the plastic engine cover I damaged and cracked the plastic guide of the oil dipstick. I used some tape to fix it temporarily before I could get another one to change it. The dipstick wasn't really secured on the guide, but I thought that it wasn't so important. In this oil change I put castrol 5w30 full synthetic. After about 3000kms the oil warning light came up for the first time in the car's life. Topped up and came on after 3000km again. Meanwhile I totally forgot about the broken plastic guide and just topped it up. For the next oil change I decided to use another oil brand, because I thought that the oil was at fault. So at ~148000kms I used liqui moly 4200 5w30 oil along with their ceratec additive and replaced the broken plastic guide. Now at 152000kms light came on again.
I searched the net and found that if the dipstick isn't well secured, a vacuum situation is induced in the crankcase and pcv valve is not working correctly. Oil is guided to the intake and burned in the cylinders. My mechanic said that it is normal for the car to start consuming oil at this mileage, but I find it strange that for 135000 hard driven kms with 15000km intervals no oil was used and suddenly after the broken guide incidence it started using ~1l /3000kms. I believe my pcv valve is damaged and is causing this mess.
What do you people think? Do your 1.6s consume any oil? Also I would like to ask the part number of the pcv valve in these engines, because I couldn't find clear information on the net.
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to describe the situation in the best possible way. Thanks for your attention and stay safe!
My car is a 2006 vw jetta with the 1.6 bse engine, also used in octavia mk2 and leon mk2.
Car has 152000km on it right now and through the years it has been fairly reliable. The only problems were a leaking valve cover gasket and a failed a/c compressor, both solved for under 300euros. Car has had a hard life with lots of redline driving, but it has been maintained with 15.000km oil changes with 5w30 and sometimes 5w40 oil grade.
Till the previous oil change at ~135.000kms car was using no oil at all. Maybe a little bit, but it wasn't even noticable. During the procedure of removing the plastic engine cover I damaged and cracked the plastic guide of the oil dipstick. I used some tape to fix it temporarily before I could get another one to change it. The dipstick wasn't really secured on the guide, but I thought that it wasn't so important. In this oil change I put castrol 5w30 full synthetic. After about 3000kms the oil warning light came up for the first time in the car's life. Topped up and came on after 3000km again. Meanwhile I totally forgot about the broken plastic guide and just topped it up. For the next oil change I decided to use another oil brand, because I thought that the oil was at fault. So at ~148000kms I used liqui moly 4200 5w30 oil along with their ceratec additive and replaced the broken plastic guide. Now at 152000kms light came on again.
I searched the net and found that if the dipstick isn't well secured, a vacuum situation is induced in the crankcase and pcv valve is not working correctly. Oil is guided to the intake and burned in the cylinders. My mechanic said that it is normal for the car to start consuming oil at this mileage, but I find it strange that for 135000 hard driven kms with 15000km intervals no oil was used and suddenly after the broken guide incidence it started using ~1l /3000kms. I believe my pcv valve is damaged and is causing this mess.
What do you people think? Do your 1.6s consume any oil? Also I would like to ask the part number of the pcv valve in these engines, because I couldn't find clear information on the net.
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to describe the situation in the best possible way. Thanks for your attention and stay safe!
