Reply #119: Mind my injection -

[fighttheevilempire]

But I know cars pretty well and turbos do not have cam lobes or lifters. Maybe there's sometihng lost in the translation, but that's what I'm reading. What it sounds like is this: Turbochargers recirculate hot exhaust air back into the intake. The super hot air passes through the cylinder head, cooking the oil. Filter's being filled with molasses instead of oil, reducing the oil pressure to the entire system from that point forward. That's why the oil light. No oil pressure = expensive noises.

If oil is getting hot enough to turn to sludge, that's something that should have been worked out in the testing phase. Ideally the solution would be an additional oil cooler. They won't want to hear that, and likely won't do anything about it, but that's the best solution.

Cars are designed to make it to their warranty's end. They can be made to last much longer in some cases. Automatic transmissions are another example. I doubt I could find an average passenger car with an adequate transmission cooler... but that's another story. It sounds like they're feeding everyone a line of BS here, and frankly only a class action suit would have a chance at fixing it. Just goes to show all this foreign car stuff isn't always up to the hype people give it.