Found this in my oil

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changed my oil and found this in it. Any ideas on what it might be?
Chunks are plastic.



 
Might be bits from your timing chain guide
 
if it was orange bits of plastic id say it would of been your dip stick tube black bits defo points too timing chain guide, you need to be careful because your chain could jump depending on what part has broken off
 
what steps would you advise i take now to prevent this from costing me a lot of money?
 
New chains and guides if it is that .. I wouldn't run the car until for find out for sure .. Try find a pic of your timing chain guides to see it looks like the bits in your pic
 
I wonder if it's part of the rocker cover gasket that's broken off if someone has replaced it
 
It might be bits of the breather on top of the oil filter housing. This goes brittle and breaks up. This happened to mine.
 
Nick.G said:
It might be bits of the breather on top of the oil filter housing. This goes brittle and breaks up. This happened to mine.
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Think you might be right I've just looked at a pic and it looks like the same
 
If you can smell oil fumes when your heater is on then the pipe has fallen to pieces. £10 for a new one.
 
no smells. but yesterday and today i got "Oil Pressure" warning light on my dash.
 
You might as well bite the bullet and get the sump off, the Audi I bought had this problem. The cam chain tensioner pad was totally gone and just to add insult to injury, the oil pump chain tensioner had gone too. You could do as many oil changes as you want but it won't make a bit of difference, it will all be stuck in the oil pump pick up.
 
does anyone have any pictures of this as i'm not sure what part to lookout for?

i'm not confident to start stripping down the engine especially if it involved timing belts/chains.

Looks like i'll have to park the car up for a bit until i can get to the bottom of this.
 
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I must admit it does look like the bottom edge of that breather pipe but there's no direct route from the side of the block to the sump, there's a baffle plate mounted between the block and the breather casting and the breather slots are at the top. Either way, whatever it is, you have the low oil pressure warning and it needs dealt with. The other parts that have or are plastic are these two.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-1-8-T-...442860?hash=item27fbfddcac:g:aG8AAOSwvgdW6q-4

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fit-VW-Bo...644943?hash=item35ed307e4f:g:MEkAAOSwT6pVl5zI

I think the second piece is the most likely candidate and requires the bottom crank pulley off and the front crank seal housing off to change it.
 
so i scanned the car Sat morning before taking it to garage. no faults what so ever. then i started it up and the revs don't pick up. re-scanned it and still no faults. so now i have a car that doesn't rev.

any ideas???
 
Izzy1 said:
so i scanned the car Sat morning before taking it to garage. no faults what so ever. then i started it up and the revs don't pick up. re-scanned it and still no faults. so now i have a car that doesn't rev.

any ideas???
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Sounds like the throttle pedal has failed, not sure if it's a similar set up as the b5.5 Passat but they could leak through the ECU housing seal and/or the bonnet cable grommet and that's right above the throttle pedal leading to water ingress. Inside the throttle pedal are two potentiometers, one reads from low to high and the other from high to low, worth a check.
 
i dropped it off to the garage yesterday so will hopefully have a answer in a few days.
 
Sorry for the delay but after dropping the car to the garage my wife went into hospital and i became a Dad for the first time so car has not been a priority.

Car is still with the garage. and the revs still don't pick up.
just spoke to my mechanic. he has run the engine a number of times to see if it will bring up a fault. no luck.
suspects its mechanical and air flow related. so checked turbo, swapped air mass, & throttle body with another. still nothing.
thought it might be waster ingress in and around Gas pedal but that was bone dry.

He has spoken to another specialist who is baffled so at some point this week will tow the car to him and see if two heads are better than one.

could it be the ECU?

any ideas would greatly help as he doesn't want to start stripping the engine down if that is not going to fix the rev issue.
 
Get the garage to pressure test your pipes that are turbo related you might have a boost problem
 
Congratulations on the new little one mate! The car will sort it's self out.
 
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He's going to try a replacement pedal. if that doesn't work i'll confirm if he has done a pressure test.
 
So i got my car back on Sat. Mechanic couldn't find anything wrong with it. put it in gear. made it judder for about 20 yards and boom! revs started picking up and it's driven fine since then.

i've monitored it over the past 3 days and it seems to "normal" again with no errors on the dash or vagcom.

so it's all a mistry as to why the car wouldn't pick up revs.
 
50% of the time I'm right every time!
 
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Did you figure out what the bits are in the oil yet
 
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Did you figure out what the bits are in the oil yet
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Nope. I don't have confidence in the car so i've just parked it up and i'm using the BMW for now. i'm thinking to px it for something else. maybe A4 avant B8 or 3 series touring.
 
update!

Things are looking positive. engine management light came on last week. dropped car off to garage and was told there was a lot of back pressure in the engine. couple of parts replaced and it's running better than it did before.

diverter valve and some 1 way valve were replaced. going to drive it and see if i still get the oil pressure warning before dropping the sump and replacing the oil pick up.

so for now it looks like the car is here to stay.

So glad it wasn't anything major and a simple fix... even if it did take 1 month to resolve.
 
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