Sonic Oil Cooler: Low or High Failure Potential??

[GHOST]

This YouTube video shows an issue that can affect our engines:
https://youtu.be/2bCllbBcRcY

As the video shows, the rubber seals/gaskets inside the oil cooler can deteriorate with age, which allows engine oil to mix in with coolant and contaminate the cooling system, creating a coffee-coloured sludgy mess.

My question is, is this issue common to the 1.4L Turbo or 1.8L engines, or uncommon?

Has anyone had their oil cooler fail, or is it pretty much trouble-free?
I would like to determine if this is something I should keep a close eye on.

P.S. I would like to thank everybody on the forum for all the great information.
I appreciate it.

 

[skurtov]

The oil cooler that he mentioned, it's always possible that gaskets can fail but something like this is not that common. There are a lot of high mileage Sonic's here on the forums and on the FB group but I can't recall any one person ever running into this issue.

 

[Than]

my 2012 1.8l has this issue. its not a huge thing to fix but i have yet to do it, for the time being i either clean or replace the tank where it seems to collect. at least coolant doesnt get into the oil.