valve cover gasket leak...?

zVp said:

Has this worked with people who has had the oily water pooling on top?

I am going to tightening the 5 side bolts (or at least the ones that are accessible to me) to see if this helps.

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I didn't tighten the 5 side bolts, but I stopped getting this issue.

I replaced my PCV and the day after, I had that oily water, but after that, it's dry. Strange.

Also reduced my oil consumption to around... well, nothing. Used to burn around 1 quart per 8000 km, then got really bad this winter when it was 1 quart per 1000 km yikes. Now it's probably going to burn around half a quart per 8000 km by the looks of it, which is pretty good in my opinion.

I have this leak. I've been waiting though. I noticed some oil on my spark plugs and coil in cyl 2 and tiny bit in 3 IIRC. I have an extended warranty. But I don't wana open up a can of worms pulling shit apart. I also should probably get a carbon cleaning. I'm at around 65k and never had one done.

It appears as though every pic previously posted looks exactly like what I see under my hood. I have a stock 2012 with 72k miles. Timing chain tensioner and intake manifold both failed and were replaced under CPO warranty at 50k. While everything was opened up, I also had the dealership clean the valves. No noises coming from the PCV, but leaks are evident.

There may have been some oil coming from the fill cover, so I cleaned that off well. There has not been any major leakage for the past 500 miles.

I was thinking about replacing the PCV valve and the o-ring on the sensor on my own and then watching things for a bit But based on the pics below, should I just have the dealership replace the valve cover gasket since they will have to take off the PCV valve anyway?

resealed my valve cover with vw green sealant


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Bright my car in today for an oil leak. Turns out it’s coming from the back of the valve cover. The service manager suggested that I could probably pull it off, clean it, and reseal it myself. I haven’t found any write ups or videos on it though. Is it pretty straight forward? Does the timing cover have to come off as well?