Oil consumption 2.0 TDI FR

[umerb]

Hi everyone, I have recently bought a 2017 leon fr 2.0 tdi. The car is incredible and fun to drive. Have no issues with the car apart from dpf which has been sorted with a clean and new sensor but I am just wondering what your oil consumption is like as i have heard these do drink a fair bit of oil. My car is on 95k mileage so pretty good mileage and just wondering what to expect

 

[Mr Pig]

Hi there, we've had three diesels, two Leons and a Golf, and none of them consumed oil. The Golf was over 100K miles, my wife's Leon FR is about 60K and the first Leon was about 80K when we sold it. I fact it's not unusual to find that the level on the dipstick goes up slightly! Because of the high compression you can get crap blowing past the piston rings and into the oil.

 

[James_R]

I also had a 2.0TDI Leon for a couple of years. Tuned it, drove it to death, never lost a drop. It's not something that comes up regularly at work either

 

[Compo1]

If you have the 150bhp version they dont burn oil.

The 184 cuna engine will at some point start burning oil and at low mileage, 50000 onwards.

The oil control rings are responsible for this. They are specced to be on the loose side and they don't seal as older engines from the VW range do. Its said to be a emission control thing.

VW state its normal to burn up to 1000ml per 1000 miles.

Common complaint and well documented on the forum.

 

[James_R]

Mine was a 184, bought it at 55k, did another 20k on top of that. We also had an Octavia 184 that we bought at 40k and put 50k on, our Kodiaq and Karoq (190 and 150) never used any oil either.

We see cars from 0-150k miles through our workshop and rarely get any oil consumption complaints. I can't actually remember the last time I did a consumption test.

When we do delve into a diagnosis, the most common cause has been a defective turbo or external leak from the likes of the crank seals.