high oil usage, any ideas?

[56OctyVRS]

Out of interest what heat range are the plugs?

[vRSAlex]

Is the smoke white, blue or black?  When does the smoke happen?  When you boot it?

[martziniuk]

Could it be anything to do with the high boost at 3000rpm?

Now that's a spike!  
But 1.8 bar would worry me.

[heavyd]

Is the smoke white, blue or black?  When does the smoke happen?  When you boot it?

It seems like its black, and yes, when I boot it is when I get the cloud. Thing is, over the last three weeks I've been driving like miss daisy apart from about 5 datalogging runs and I've still used all that oil

Out of interest what heat range are the plugs?

Theyre the ones the dealer gave me for free when they decided not to change them when it was serviced, sure theyre 7, only fitted them in february

[itismebigd]

That does not look good bud,my car does not put any specks out on the body work at all just seems to use it. Strange!!! i sure hope you get to the bottom of it m8 and it does not cost a packet to fix

[heavyd]

I hope so aswell, the cheapest k04 turbo I can find is £1390 exc fitting
Think I'm going to try a stock map to see if that makes any difference

[Tfsi_Mike]

I hope so aswell, the cheapest k04 turbo I can find is £1390 exc fitting
Think I'm going to try a stock map to see if that makes any difference

They do pop up in the classifieds at good prices ussually the £600 mark, hope you get to the bottom of it.  Its frustrating as hell when you cherish and spend so much money on your car and it doesnt run right.

[keano]

Are you sure you don't have a diesel engine?

Has it got progressively worse or just happened since a map?

[heavyd]

Are you sure you don't have a diesel engine?

Has it got progressively worse or just happened since a map?

Funny enough, I switched to a stock map, had my brother follow me down the road, and he said it looked like it was a diesel, as there was plumes of black smoke pouring out
Its been smoking a bit since april, but only on WOT. But now bumper gets full of black dots after a 5mile run, and also I get random black smoke screens in my rear view mirror whilst driving down the road.
Might just do a trade in at the dealers................

[martziniuk]

That would be a shame, you've got a nice looking car there 
If you did decide to keep it a basic compression test carried out by a garage would be a cheap and easy way to determine the health of the engine, but obviously not the turbo.

[Tfsi_Mike]

That would be a shame, you've got a nice looking car there 
If you did decide to keep it a basic compression test carried out by a garage would be a cheap and easy way to determine the health of the engine, but obviously not the turbo.

What answers would it give?

Oil passing rings?
Oil passing through Gasket?

Are there any other causes that could be flagged up?

[vRSAlex]

Black smoke is fuel hence why your plugs are so damn black.  The spots are caused when the unburnt fuel mixes with the condensation in the exhaust.

[martziniuk]

It would basically determine what pressure the cylinder can hold, if the pressure peaks high enough it would mean piston rings and stem seals are ok, This would then point to the turbo.

It's strange because the spike in your boost logs does not show on your Dyno, has the map been altered since the PDT Dyno?

[heavyd]

Had another 3 maps since the PDtuning day
 I'm supposed to be getting it setup next week on the dyno down at shark if the tuner comes over from Finland.
I'll head to some garages next week hopefully, as I'm stuck at work all day this week.
I thought black smoke was fuel, but then I thought it must have been linked to the oil usage. But then again, would oil coming out of the turbo through the exhaust and not being burnt be black? as when it goes through the pistons and gets burnt it would be blue?

[vRSAlex]

If the turbo seals go and oil goes into the exhaust then you will get clouds of white smoke.