Oil burn - blackened exhausts

[tonymy01]

I don't think the black on your garage floor is from oil, most is soot mixed with cold start accumulated condensation from the rich fuel burning. I get black spots on the back of my car, and gave up trying to keep the inside chrome of my Milltek pipes shiny. I do a lot of low kms runs (6km each way), the car is barely in closed loop just near the end of each run, so is running open loop and rich...hence soot.

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[Mi16 Man]

Even the fuel you use makes a difference. I have clean 'tips' after running BP Ultimate. The exact opposite with Shell VPower.

It's just soot, nothing to worry about. Just;

[GtiGolf]

Even the fuel you use makes a difference. I have clean 'tips' after running BP Ultimate. The exact opposite with Shell VPower.

It's just soot, nothing to worry about. Just;

What Mi16 said.......
Just get onto it sooner rather than later as it, I bought mine with 12K on it and was starting to slightly pit the chrome.
Lighting chrome polish. Six bucks from the clearance bin and works a treat !

[SAINIside]

yeah.... not stressing about it. the car was a couple of days old when i wondered about this given the fact the engine eats oil like a uni student at an all you can eat buffet. I use only VPower (fuel vouchers!). Will try BP Ultimate.

I've now done 1,200 klms on the car, does anyone know when I should be taking it back to the dealer for a 'checkup' - and oil top up, because it's already down to half level on the dip stick!!!

[Ozram]

yeah.... not stressing about it. the car was a couple of days old when i wondered about this given the fact the engine eats oil like a uni student at an all you can eat buffet. I use only VPower (fuel vouchers!). Will try BP Ultimate.

I've now done 1,200 klms on the car, does anyone know when I should be taking it back to the dealer for a 'checkup' - and oil top up, because it's already down to half level on the dip stick!!!

Your dealer should have told you. We were told to take ours back at 1000km for a checkover.

[AGC]

I picked up my new GTI DSG last Thursday, so it's barely 8 days old and my tailpipes are kinda sooty, too. I was a bit surprised.

My dealer told me to bring it back in 12 months (or @ 15,000kms), but I think I'll take it back around 1,500km for a checkover and to see if they can fix the wastegate rattle... Wife's Tiguan doesn't do it but mine rattles like it's got a loose exhaust heatshield.

Might go check my oil tomorrow...

[Allegiance]

Picked up my R last Tuesday and the tail pipes do have soot on them. Wiped them down last night and I'll monitor it now.

[Candyman]

EVO MR current model belching way more smoke that I've ever seen from an R on my way to work this morning. Poor guy thought he had a quick car

[SAINIside]

When should i be checking oil level - car hot or cold? I checked it this morning before starting and the was at the lower level, just covering the MIN text and not even in the 'middle' dipped section. Hope that makes sense. I've only done 1,600 klms so far! Seems low... too low, and too quickly!

The colour of the oil was pale yellow, but you could see tiny black specs in it and felt a bit gritty (or I could be imagining it).

I wonder is VW dealers to free oil top ups, like they do at Audi.

[Idle]

When should i be checking oil level - car hot or cold? I checked it this morning before starting and the was at the lower level, just covering the MIN text and not even in the 'middle' dipped section. Hope that makes sense. I've only done 1,600 klms so far! Seems low... too low, and too quickly!

The colour of the oil was pale yellow, but you could see tiny black specs in it and felt a bit gritty (or I could be imagining it).

I wonder is VW dealers to free oil top ups, like they do at Audi.

The level should be close to the top mark when cold.

Good luck getting anything free out of most VW dealers...

However, I'd certainly be hot-footing it back to the dealer if my new car lost that much oil in 1600K.