Car Smells of burning oil.

[Jamie]

A couple of weeks ago my car began to smell of burning oil.

The problem occurs when pushing the car hard (not from driving normal, even if oil is up during long m-way stints at >90) I had a quick look as at the time i was away from home, after which I found the oil filter to be slightly loose. I thought this might be the issue and forgot about it.

However the problem persisted.... The oil pressure is still 'good'. 4Bar on cold tickover and 6 during cold driving etc and the oil level remains at 'full' on the dipstick since last filling it sometime ago.

Anyway today I decided to have a quick look at the plugs... I whipped them out and found some oil on the tray where the HT leads go. Now I always seem to have this and thought fine and got on with the job in hand. Now, the first spark plug I pulled out was on the far right of the car as if sitting behind the wheel. This plug had a small amount of oil on it... nothing 'too concerning'. The middle two were 'dry', however the extreme left plug had a great deal of oil on it (quite an amount stuck to it). Now im not sure if this is attributable to a shaky hand when filling the oil or something more sinister.

Any advice?

 

[mikey_172]

i had this mate and it turned out my rings were gone does it smoke when you boot it ?

 

[Jamie]

Quite difficult to tell.....

I did once notice it smoke when changing around red line some time ago but I have never noticed anything....

If it were the rings would that not be detrimental to oil pressure or any other symptoms?

Only really want another year out of it tbh.

 

[mikey_172]

my car when i booted it smoked loads not every time but most of the time best thing to do is warn her up then go out boot it a couple of times see if it smokes if it does then get a compression test done before its to late i fucked my whole engine