Mine had the same problem, i had the head gasket replaced but the problem persisted. Loads of reading up later i discovered it was the oil cooler, doddle to fit in a couple of hours tops, remove the turbo and surrounding bits and it's a piece of cake.

Well I went in blind as no-one answered. For future reference if anyone needs to do this job, turbo off, oil filter and rotor filter housings off, oil cooler off, clean up all the oily gunk, then fit new oil cooler and everything else in reverse. Pretty easy job, couple of hours tops.

I'm going to attempt to remove the knackered engine oil cooler on my TD5 this weekend, and replace it with the new one ive managed to get hold of. Am i right in thinking i will need to remove the turbo to gain access to it? Any hints or tips from anyone that has done this before? Also is...

Yep it's probably the cooler, mines gone currently, cant afford to have it fixed so for now ive got to flush and refil the coolant and top up the oil every week.

Awesome thanks.

thread revival! Did you solve this problem?

Thanks mate, yes it does have an oil cooler, i'll look in to that one.

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