No, nothing like that. My car's babied pretty good. I'm not a mechanic but yesterday the oil on the dipstick had a few spots that looked sorta milky. Kinda like adding cream to coffee. So, I'm hoping it's not an internal head gasket leak. Car runs good, no overheating, no external coolant leak, coolant levels good, no extreme white smoke other than what the catless dp gives me from day 1 that it went on. It does eat about half a quart of oil between changes and the last change was 5k miles ago only because of winter, normally every 3k. I'm gonna self diagnose it and a compression check this weekend, hopefully it's just old oil. If, not I'll get it in soon. Is that sarcasm for who should work on it or who shouldn't? 82k
I was experiencing the same type of oil consumption with Mobil 1, I switched to Rotella T based on discussions here and the Blackstone oil report I got. They suggested I not use Mobil 1 and reported some elevated metals in my oil. Get a container from Blackstone and send a sample to them if you want to know what is going on. They will let you know if there is fuel or coolant in your oil. $22.50 might bring you some peace of mind before going to the dealership. http://www.blackstone-labs.com/
Wow, I always thought it would cost more than that? I will definitely do that. Thanks. The oil was changed last week and surprisingly no milky color at all, just dark in color with no signs of any debris. I think I've narrowed it down to some dirty deposits hanging out in my dipstick tube based on how it looks flashing a light down it. It's probably getting wicked up by the dipstick as it comes out. I got to find a way to clean it and will do an analysis just to be sure.
Yes, occasionally I get a milky substance on the oil filler neck and the oil dipstick tube. Just a tiny tiny amount, but its still there. I actually used a bore-cleaner from my gun cleaning kit to get it out of the dipstick. lol
Do you short trip it? I had the same problem with my WRX last year, and the nice gentleman at Morries said it was probably from that. I went out for a long trip the weekend after the recommendation, and the milky goo was gone.
Yeah, condensation can cause a little of that sometimes. If you're taking short trips and not reaching operating temp for a period of time it doesn't boil off, and you get some milky lookin goo in there. The 2.0L in the MKIV VWs was really bad, if you didn't get that thing up to operating temp for a good 15-20 minutes it looked like you had a MAJOR problem.
