leapy

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Oct 10, 2006
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my brothers 02 leon 90bhp(remapped to 130) just went pop on the motorway in a cloud of black smoke.he had it recovered home but when coming off the recovery wagon it was belting out a whitesh smoke.he has to wait till tomorrow to get it looked at.anyone got any ideas is it the turbo????
 
my brothers 02 leon 90bhp(remapped to 130) just went pop on the motorway in a cloud of black smoke.he had it recovered home but when coming off the recovery wagon it was belting out a whitesh smoke.he has to wait till tomorrow to get it looked at.anyone got any ideas is it the turbo????

Id guess at no.
as a general rule
white smoke = water
blue smoke = oil (turbo)
black smoke = fuel (unburnt hydrocarbons)
 
Turbo

Ive got a 1.9TDI 150 FR, 2 weeks ago the coolant light came on and the car started kicking out white smoke.

The AA man couldnt tell what was wrong. He checked the head gasket, fine. I had lost coolant but there was no coolant leak and the car had plenty of oil.

Sent it off to the garage and turns out it was the turbo so I wouldnt rule it out yet.