You may have worn valve guides where oil is seeping by into the cylinder. Could also be worn cylinder rings. Have you done a leak down test on it?

Thanks – I have not done a leak down test.
The car is only at 8,000 miles – is seeing this common for this age?

With 8K miles, it shouldn’t be. Do you do a lot of hard braking? #2 Cylinder is the first up front on the passenger side. I would say have a leak down test done. It will tell you a lot about each cylinder and then you go from there. Leak down test is fairly easy and cheap to do. If the results come back good, then you may have a simple issue.

could it be an injector issue as well ?

uvbnbit said:
could it be an injector issue as well ?

Would be gas, not oil.