Anyone familiar with 2006-2010 VWs?

[Rockburner]

Went to look at a VW Eos today, and there was some oil sitting on the support mount for the air-filter, and just under the battery, and a very minor drip under the right side of the engine (see arrows shown on image for rough locations).

This is a 1.4 TSi engine (which I believe means it's turbo/supercharged?) It 'went' ok, driving the car was fine, the spare-wheel well was bone dry (which I believe means that the roof seals are good), everything worked, I just have a question over a potential oil leak/weep issue. Worth noting that when I first checked the engine over, the oil level was under minimum, but after putting a litre in, the level was nigh on at full (after a 10 minute drive around).

I'm not very good with cars and car engines, they're just transport to me, I don't tend to do a lot of work on them so I'm not hugely familiar with whether an issue is expensive/difficult to fix or not

So - would oil in the locations shown be a big issue on an engine like this?
(yes I may well ask the same on VW forums, but it's my experience that they're less friendly, and far slower to respond than you lot!)

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[weeksy]

GP has one like that I think

[KungFooBob]

GP has one like that I think

Cheesy has an EOS, I don't think it's the 1.4 TSI tho'

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

We do have an EOS, 2.0 diesel.
Personally if it's got an oil leak I'd walk away.
An EOS is a heavy car and I wonder if a 1.4 would pull it along, ours is 140bhp, I wouldn't want one with much less.
And trust me they can leak from multiple places, in heavy rain ours drips from the drivers side where the roof joins the windscreen, drips worse when you brake, so I think the drain down the windscreen is partially blocked, but I may have fixed that now. It also drips on the rear passenger side, which is also a partially dropped drain.

The spare wheel well is dry by the way

I'm not bothered about the drips on ours as it was a cheap car for my wife and we won't keep it for more than a couple of years.

[Hairybiker84]

Oil level below minimum is not really a good sign. If you don't check your oil level, what attitude do you have to regular maintenance? Turbo engines put a lot of stress on the oil, it is used for cooling and lubrication of the turbo - reduced quantity of oil + possibly not changed when it should have been = likely premature failure of turbo down the line.
Oil drips - the one on the left of the photo likely from oil filler or possibly filter. RH one possibly crankcase breather but I'm not familiar with the layout of the pipes on these. Might be worth carefully taking the oil filler cap off when it is running (and warmed up but beware of oil spray, some cars you can't take it off without getting covered!). If there seem to be a lot of fumes then possibly bore wear and walk away.
Spent a lot of time with turbo engines but only Subaru's so not familiar with VAG offerings.