I want to tune but oil consumption

**a4937** · 07-22-2016 10:36 AM

Had my car for a few months and knew when I got it I was tuning. I've had to add a qt about every 1000 miles or so. I'm wondering if this problem will get worse with a tune. I know there are a bunch of things it could be caused by, and I don't want to spend a whole lot trying to guess what it is.

I'm new to the 2.0t and I know there are some other things I can do not necessarily to fix the issue but to improve performance and just make it run better in general. If anyone has some suggestions it would be appreciated. I'm not the most experienced mechanic but I do enjoy

and will do what I can.

thanks

BTW it's automatic.

**Charles.waite** · 07-22-2016 10:48 AM

I'm in the same boat as you. Personally I'm holding off on tuning until I have a solution to my oil consumption lined up and ready to go. In my case I'm 99% sure the piston rings are toast so that would be "dropping in a used engine" territory. Which I have no problems doing but its more a money factor at this point.

That being said, I know a number of people who've tuned their cars despite the oil consumption and haven't reported the consumption to be worse. If you DO tune, make sure the tuner allows you to revert to stock mapping in case yours gets worse from the tune. That way you still have the tune but can dial it back until you fix the issue.

There area number of oil consumption threads on here, but cliffs notes for what the oil consumption could be:
Valve Cover PCV passages cracked
PCV pipe busted
Bad turbo seals passing oil into exhaust stream
Fried piston rings
bad valve seals