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Old Sep 20, 2007 | 12:50 PM
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check on the inside of your piping to the intercooler. Sometimes if a turbo has a bad seal it will leak in there and sit inside the intercooler. it slowly gets sucked into the motor through the intake and burns so slight that you could go without noticing it.
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I looked there also. Clean as a whistle... I am lost on this one . All around the motor is no sign of leakage. No smoke.

Turbo only has 4k miles on it. Plus I take care of it. So I dont think its the turbo , IMO.
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what kind/brand is the turbo?
Old Sep 20, 2007 | 01:15 PM
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t3/t4 turbonetics

Brand new with 4k miles
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you should really just take it to a shop, you have shot down every idea that has come up (not saying that is bad). If it isn't any of those and you don't have any other idea you should just pay someone to look at it.
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Oil gypsy!!! Drinking your oil!
Old Sep 20, 2007 | 03:13 PM
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Default Re: Where is my oil going???

Well one thing I am not sure of is the rear main seal that murphy660 mentioned. And paying someone to fix it isnt on my list of to-do things. I was more or less asking if there was something else that I possibly looked over. Or just didnt know.
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Put some cardboard under the car over night and see if you have clean oil dripping. Figure out where the problem is, then figure out what it is.
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try a thicker oil or some lucas,
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get oil dye and put it in. Then in a few weeks take a black light and look to see where it is coming out of. You can pick up the dye at any dealership and it is pretty cheap. if it is coming out you will see it with a black light.
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