The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester].
You need to do this in two test conditions:
* Dry (or at least, do not add oil if you see oil at the pistons); get the numbers and write them down.
* Wet testing: This is done by adding cheap oil (read: Walmart Supertech will work for this) in the spark plug area (not a lot, a little goes a long way) and do it again; as you did before, get the numbers and compare.[br]
I do not know what "good" is for your VW, but most engines should be around 300-350+; 250 is borderline and 200 is usually bad; find out for sure by looking up the engine code. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption. Since this is a VW, I wouldn't be surprised if the rings are bad. One of the problems with VW engines is they are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles. It's German culture; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables so this stuff happens more than it should. An example of some of this absurdity is the E60 M5 F1 derived V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown every 100k miles >_<. For common cheap cars like a common VW in the US, we junk the car when oil in the trunk isn't enough. This works in Germany because they will pay someone to swap the piston rings and clean up the short block if need be and run the same engine. Poor maintenance makes this worse and accelerates when it happens in a VW engine. VW is not exactly a shining star for engineering quality. While Mercedes is the "nickel and dime" German car, they're at least built without such absurd issues but are expensive to repair for non-DIYers. BMW is similar to Mercedes.
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I could understand consumable rod bearings in a McLaren or something that can be driven on the street (but is basically a pure race car), but a common car everyone can readily buy not knowing it requires some absurd wear item?
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I could understand consumable rod bearings in a Ferrari or McLaren (which are basically street-legal race cars you can track on the weekend), but on a common car everyone can readily buy not knowing it requires some absurd wear item? The M cars are commodity items!
If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well. If you see excessive black garbage on your spark plugs, that's usually a sign of definite oil consumption and it's usually beyond fixing with a PCV valve.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.
The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester].
You need to do this in two test conditions:
* Dry (or at least, do not add oil if you see oil at the pistons); get the numbers and write them down.
* Wet testing: This is done by adding cheap oil (read: Walmart Supertech will work for this) in the spark plug area (not a lot, a little goes a long way) and do it again; as you did before, get the numbers and compare.[br]
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I do not know what "good" is for your VW, but most engines should be around 250-300; find out for sure by looking up the engine code. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption. Since this is a VW, I wouldn't be surprised if the rings are bad. One of the problems with VW engines is they are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles. It's German culture; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables so this stuff happens more than it should. An example of some of this absurdity is the E60 M5 F1 derived V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown every 100k miles >_<. For common cheap cars like a common VW in the US, we junk the car when oil in the trunk isn't enough. This works in Germany because they will pay someone to swap the piston rings and clean up the short block if need be and run the same engine. Poor maintenance makes this worse and accelerates when it happens in a VW engine. VW is not exactly a shining star for engineering quality. While Mercedes is the "nickel and dime" German car, they're at least built without such absurd issues but are expensive to repair for non-DIYers. BMW is similar to Mercedes.
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I do not know what "good" is for your VW, but most engines should be around 300-350+; 250 is borderline and 200 is usually bad; find out for sure by looking up the engine code. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption. Since this is a VW, I wouldn't be surprised if the rings are bad. One of the problems with VW engines is they are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles. It's German culture; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables so this stuff happens more than it should. An example of some of this absurdity is the E60 M5 F1 derived V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown every 100k miles >_<. For common cheap cars like a common VW in the US, we junk the car when oil in the trunk isn't enough. This works in Germany because they will pay someone to swap the piston rings and clean up the short block if need be and run the same engine. Poor maintenance makes this worse and accelerates when it happens in a VW engine. VW is not exactly a shining star for engineering quality. While Mercedes is the "nickel and dime" German car, they're at least built without such absurd issues but are expensive to repair for non-DIYers. BMW is similar to Mercedes.
I could understand consumable rod bearings in a McLaren or something that can be driven on the street (but is basically a pure race car), but a common car everyone can readily buy not knowing it requires some absurd wear item?
If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well. If you see excessive black garbage on your spark plugs, that's usually a sign of definite oil consumption and it's usually beyond fixing with a PCV valve.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.
The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester].
You need to do this in two test conditions:
* Dry (or at least, do not add oil if you see oil at the pistons); get the numbers and write them down.
* Wet testing: This is done by adding cheap oil (read: Walmart Supertech will work for this) in the spark plug area (not a lot, a little goes a long way) and do it again; as you did before, get the numbers and compare.[br]
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If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption. Since this is a VW, I wouldn't be surprised if the rings are bad. One of the problems with VW engines is they are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles. It's German culture; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables so this stuff happens more than it should. An example of some of this absurdity is the E60 M5 F1 derived V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown every 100k miles >_<. For common cheap cars like a common VW in the US, we junk the car when oil in the trunk isn't enough. This works in Germany because they will pay someone to swap the piston rings and clean up the short block if need be and run the same engine. Poor maintenance makes this worse and accelerates when it happens in a VW engine. VW is not exactly a shining star for engineering quality. While Mercedes is the "nickel and dime" German car, they're at least built without such absurd issues but are expensive to repair for non-DIYers. BMW is similar to Mercedes.
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I do not know what "good" is for your VW, but most engines should be around 250-300; find out for sure by looking up the engine code. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption. Since this is a VW, I wouldn't be surprised if the rings are bad. One of the problems with VW engines is they are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles. It's German culture; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables so this stuff happens more than it should. An example of some of this absurdity is the E60 M5 F1 derived V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown every 100k miles >_<. For common cheap cars like a common VW in the US, we junk the car when oil in the trunk isn't enough. This works in Germany because they will pay someone to swap the piston rings and clean up the short block if need be and run the same engine. Poor maintenance makes this worse and accelerates when it happens in a VW engine. VW is not exactly a shining star for engineering quality. While Mercedes is the "nickel and dime" German car, they're at least built without such absurd issues but are expensive to repair for non-DIYers. BMW is similar to Mercedes.
I could understand consumable rod bearings in a McLaren or something that can be driven on the street (but is basically a pure race car), but a common car everyone can readily buy not knowing it requires some absurd wear item?
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If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well. If you see excessive black garbage on your spark plugs, that's usually a sign of definite oil consumption and it's usually beyond fixing with a PCV valve.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.
The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester|new_window=true]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption. I wouldn't be surprised, VW's are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables so this stuff happens more than it should. An example of some of this absurdity is the E60 M5 F1 derived V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown every 100k miles >_<. For common cheap cars like a common VW, we junk the car when oil in the trunk isn't enough. This works in Germany because they will pay someone to swap the piston rings and clean up the short block if need be and run the same engine but not in the US. I could understand consumable rod bearings in a McLaren or something that can be driven on the street (but is basically a pure race car), but a common car everyone can readily buy not knowing it requires some absurd wear item?[br]
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VW is known for horrible engineering that doesn't hold well once you hit 100k miles, Mercedes is the "nickel and dime" maker where it's expensive unless you're a DIYer (who will not rebuild or repair AMG engines, only replace), BMW is mostly troublesome plastic; again, like Mercedes.
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The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester].
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You need to do this in two test conditions:
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* Dry (or at least, do not add oil if you see oil at the pistons); get the numbers and write them down.
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* Wet testing: This is done by adding cheap oil (read: Walmart Supertech will work for this) in the spark plug area (not a lot, a little goes a long way) and do it again; as you did before, get the numbers and compare.[br]
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If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption. Since this is a VW, I wouldn't be surprised if the rings are bad. One of the problems with VW engines is they are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles. It's German culture; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables so this stuff happens more than it should. An example of some of this absurdity is the E60 M5 F1 derived V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown every 100k miles >_<. For common cheap cars like a common VW in the US, we junk the car when oil in the trunk isn't enough. This works in Germany because they will pay someone to swap the piston rings and clean up the short block if need be and run the same engine. Poor maintenance makes this worse and accelerates when it happens in a VW engine. VW is not exactly a shining star for engineering quality. While Mercedes is the "nickel and dime" German car, they're at least built without such absurd issues but are expensive to repair for non-DIYers. BMW is similar to Mercedes.
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I could understand consumable rod bearings in a McLaren or something that can be driven on the street (but is basically a pure race car), but a common car everyone can readily buy not knowing it requires some absurd wear item?
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If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well. If you see excessive black garbage on your spark plugs, that's usually a sign of definite oil consumption and it's usually beyond fixing with a PCV valve.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.
The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption. I wouldn't be surprised, VW's are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables so this stuff happens more than it should. An example of some of this absurdity is the E60 M5 F1 derived V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown every 100k miles >_<. For common cheap cars like a common VW, we junk the car when oil in the trunk isn't enough. This works in Germany because they will pay someone to swap the piston rings and clean up the short block if need be and run the same engine but not in the US. I could understand consumable rod bearings in a McLaren or something that can be driven on the street (but is basically pure race car), but a common car everyone can readily buy?
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The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester|new_window=true]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption. I wouldn't be surprised, VW's are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables so this stuff happens more than it should. An example of some of this absurdity is the E60 M5 F1 derived V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown every 100k miles >_<. For common cheap cars like a common VW, we junk the car when oil in the trunk isn't enough. This works in Germany because they will pay someone to swap the piston rings and clean up the short block if need be and run the same engine but not in the US. I could understand consumable rod bearings in a McLaren or something that can be driven on the street (but is basically a pure race car), but a common car everyone can readily buy not knowing it requires some absurd wear item?[br]
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VW is known for horrible engineering that doesn't hold well once you hit 100k miles, Mercedes is the "nickel and dime" maker where it's expensive unless you're a DIYer (who will not rebuild or repair AMG engines, only replace), BMW is mostly troublesome plastic; again, like Mercedes.
If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well. If you see excessive black garbage on your spark plugs, that's usually a sign of definite oil consumption and it's usually beyond fixing with a PCV valve.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.
The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption.I wouldn't be surprised, VW's are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables; just look at the E60 M5 with the F1 V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown; this is done every 100k miles. Not all of them are as horrible as the F1 V10 BMW put out,but they can often get away with it because someone in Germany will have a shop take the engine apart to swap the rings and inspect the short block as needed,we just throw more oil at the problem with a spare bottle in the trunk. I could understand consumable rod bearings in a McLaren or something that can be driven on the street (but is basically pure race car), but a common car everyone can readily buy?
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The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption. I wouldn't be surprised, VW's are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables so this stuff happens more than it should. An example of some of this absurdity is the E60 M5 F1 derived V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown every 100k miles >_<. For common cheap cars like a common VW, we junk the car when oil in the trunk isn't enough. This works in Germany because they will pay someone to swap the piston rings and clean up the short block if need be and run the same engine but not in the US. I could understand consumable rod bearings in a McLaren or something that can be driven on the street (but is basically pure race car), but a common car everyone can readily buy?
If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well. If you see excessive black garbage on your spark plugs, that's usually a sign of definite oil consumption and it's usually beyond fixing with a PCV valve.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.
The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption.I wouldn't be surprised, VW's are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables; just look at the E60 M5 with the F1 V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown. Not all of them are as horrible as the F1 V10 BMW put out, but they can often get away with it because someone in Germany will have a shop take the engine apart to swap the rings and inspect the short block as needed, we just throw more oil at the problem with a spare bottle in the trunk.
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The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption.I wouldn't be surprised, VW's are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables; just look at the E60 M5 with the F1 V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown; this is done every 100k miles. Not all of them are as horrible as the F1 V10 BMW put out, but they can often get away with it because someone in Germany will have a shop take the engine apart to swap the rings and inspect the short block as needed, we just throw more oil at the problem with a spare bottle in the trunk. I could understand consumable rod bearings in a McLaren or something that can be driven on the street (but is basically pure race car), but a common car everyone can readily buy?
If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well. If you see excessive black garbage on your spark plugs, that's usually a sign of definite oil consumption and it's usually beyond fixing with a PCV valve.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.
The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption.I wouldn't be surprised, VW's are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables; just look at the E60 M5 with the F1 V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown.
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The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption.I wouldn't be surprised, VW's are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables; just look at the E60 M5 with the F1 V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown. Not all of them are as horrible as the F1 V10 BMW put out, but they can often get away with it because someone in Germany will have a shop take the engine apart to swap the rings and inspect the short block as needed, we just throw more oil at the problem with a spare bottle in the trunk.
If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well. If you see excessive black garbage on your spark plugs, that's usually a sign of definite oil consumption and it's usually beyond fixing with a PCV valve.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.
The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption.
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The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption.I wouldn't be surprised, VW's are known to have problems with this once they exceed 100k miles; the Germans consider things we do not consider wear items consumables; just look at the E60 M5 with the F1 V10; the rod bearings are a "wear item" which requires an engine teardown.
If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well. If you see excessive black garbage on your spark plugs, that's usually a sign of definite oil consumption and it's usually beyond fixing with a PCV valve.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.
The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption.
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The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [link|https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption.
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If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well.
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If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well. If you see excessive black garbage on your spark plugs, that's usually a sign of definite oil consumption and it's usually beyond fixing with a PCV valve.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.
The first thing you want to check for here is bad poison rings causing oil consumption issues, which may explain this. What you need is something like this: [https://www.amazon.com/Compression-Cylinder-Pressure-Automotive-Motorcycle/dp/B0BDCN8NKZ/ref=asc_df_B0BDCN8NKZ/|Pressure tester]. Do this dry on all of the cylinders, and do a wet compression test by pouring oil in the top of the block. If you see significantly better pressure "wet", your piston rings are worn out and you need to rebuild or replace the engine to resolve the oil consumption.
If that is not it, the next thing to try is the PCV valve, potentially even taking it apart if you can and cleaning the system out if you can do so; at the bare minimum, just replace the valve. In some cases, a bad PCV valve can cause excessive oil consumption as well.
Beyond those two things, I am going to defer you to @dadibrokeit's answer; he covered the other bases I wanted to.