Oil Leaking into the exhaust

Blue smoke is often the result of bad rings on the pistons. Engine rebuild time. It is possible that the turbo is leaking oil into your engine.

Hi Geoff, The symptoms you describe certainly point to the turbo. The turbo is basically an air compressor. It is operated by spinning a turbine with the hot exhaust gas which is joined to an impeller via a shaft. The shaft runs on a special floating bearing which is lubricated with pressurised engine oil. There are two special oil seals sealing that central shaft section from the impeller and turbine chambers. If either is leaking, oil will leak into the combustion chambers and result in excessive smoke. I do not know if repair kits are available where you reside, they are not available here and special seals are required. You may need to replace the unit with a reconditioned or a new replacement. Regards John

more than likely turbo, if it were rings that bad the car would run very bad. pull a spark plug and if it is dry it is most likely turbo.

i hope you are using nothing but SYNTHETIC oil.The turbo is intercooled by oil.If the turbo is gone,it will **** oil into the intake system and burn it.

Water in combustion chamber makes white smoke--suspect that the head gasket is leaking water into the chamber. If oil leaking around turbo, it may have a bad bearing and bad oil seal. Check waste gate valve and control.

what color is the smoke if blue it is oil, if black or grey its fuel ,didyou have theinjectors seviced? if it is oil take it back to who ever rebuilt it

think you may have blown your head gasket ( turbo pushing too much boost)

turbo oil seals will cause a lot of smoking .

It is most likely residue all through the exhaust system, it will burn off, but it may take awhile.

blue smoke out of 1.8 turbo its allways bad oil seal inside turbo.need new turbo or rebuild OEM. with 24 years experience working with vw never seen single headhasket go bad on 1.8 turbo engines.blue smoke its 100% turbo every time