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So recently ive been noticing that my car has been asking me to put oil in a lot more than usual like 3 quarts in the last 1500 or so miles. I also have been experiencing misfires and SES lights on cold startups occasionally and when i had full catless exhaust i was smoking out the left tailpipe. Right now im only running a jb4, ams FMIC, and Afe dci. I decided to take a look under the car and noticed quite a bit of oil on the skid plate so i looked at the turbos, one was fine the other was partially covered in oil

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[CUTigers]

Oil filter housing leak? Although I didn't have misfire or the smoke, so im not sure.

Don't think the oil location is the same. I had it all over and under. But looked different.

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[bumere90]

clean the area first
the oil is spread all over
very hard to pin point

[gatoman39]

Bad expensive things are happening to the car. Take it to a mechanic before it gets worse.

[sammy_0559]

yur not gonna get much on here id post in the N54 turbo/drivetrain section..

but it looks to me u might need a new turbo, oil lubricates the shaft that spin the turbines. I've never really seen this before, but either your turbo is cracked where the oil is housed, or the seal on the pipe that connects to the turbo has gone bad.

best of Luck OP

[N54B30A]

Originally Posted by sammy_0559

yur not gonna get much on here id post in the N54 turbo/drivetrain section..

but it looks to me u might need a new turbo, oil lubricates the shaft that spin the turbines. I've never really seen this before, but either your turbo is cracked where the oil is housed, or the seal on the pipe that connects to the turbo has gone bad.

best of Luck OP

Yeah thats what i thought but I also thought that I rarely gave my car time to cool the turbos after a long hard drive since I heard that the car kept the oil running while it shut off. So what may have happened is the hot oil solidified into a gunk like material and the next time the turbos were ran there was much less oil there to cool it so I have a feeling the temperature got too high on top of the higher boost which probably caused a seal to fail and seep out oil.