Moisture deposits at the exhaust tips, oil or just carbon condensation?
 

Just noticed some moisture deposits at the exhaust tips as pictured: http://imgur.com/a/jgkbu

Exhaust recently switched to a Q300 around ~2000km ago and the dump pipe was decatted at around the same time (im running a turbo setup). It has not been re-tuned since the decat but it will be come next weekk.

Am I paranoid thinking that it could be oil? It doesn't blow much if at all any white smoke and it doesn't really feel sticky. The weather has recently nose dived to about 17-22c though which has me thinking it might just be carbon condensation?

It is probably just moisture. Monitor your oil consumption to be sure.

Most likely ...... ;)

If your car was burning any significant amount of oil, you would be seeing blue smoke from the exhaust.


humfrz

One of the main byproducts of combustion is good old H2O.

In other words, normal.

Stop driving underwater.

I think it's the effing crickets using the exhaust tips as their pissing post..

Oil, especially that which was being subjected to the high temperatures of combustion, would be black or very dark brown, and the inside of the exhaust tip would be black and oily.