Hi all,
After having some recent trouble with my Cupra, I hope that someone here might be able to offer some advice on the most likely causes of my issues.
A few weeks ago I purchased a 54 plate Cupra TDI in red, the car of my dreams!
It has a decat pipe, allard EGR delete kit, Sachs clutch, and a Jabbersport remap to 200 bhp and 492 Nm.
It has done 88,000 miles with a recent timing belt and water pump change.
All was great till I decided to take it on the runway at my Air Force base, RAF Marham. We were running an airfield experience day and I wanted to see what my new baby could do.
She was pulling strong right up to about 130mph towards the end of the straight when suddenly there was a big cloud of black smoke, a disconcerting noise and a sudden loss of boost. Fearing the worst, I pulled into the pit area and popped the bonnet.
One of the jubilee clips for the intercooler piping had come loose and the pipe had come off. It was the attachment second from the right from the Allard EGR section. I will take some pictures if that would help anyone diagnose the problem. There was quite a lot of oil present so I cleaned it all off and re-attached the pipe. After starting the car I noticed quite a lot of white smoke coming from the exhaust especially at about 1500 rpm under acceleration.
After driving for about 25 minutes, this did not seem to get much better so I took it to my local garage where he has told me the oil level was 8mm above the maximum marker. This was the opposite from what I was expecting. The coolant level is still just above the maximum marker so does not seem to have lost any fluid there.
Could the level go up because the oil has escaped from somewhere else, like inside the turbo? He is now looking into it more but I fear the worst. I spoke to the previous owner and he assures me the oil was always kept at the correct level. He suggested the garage might be trying to pull a fast one but I doubt that as he has been good in the past. He suggests I may merely need to run it for longer to clear all the oil out.
It just seems so strange not so see any black smoke at all out the back, where I used to get loads, due to the aggressive remap. I do however have black streaks running down the back of my car suggesting a fair amount of oil is coming from the exhaust. And now, just pure white smoke. Does anyone have any ideas what could the problem be?
Thank you in advance for any help that you can give me.
Kind Regards,
Andrew
After having some recent trouble with my Cupra, I hope that someone here might be able to offer some advice on the most likely causes of my issues.
A few weeks ago I purchased a 54 plate Cupra TDI in red, the car of my dreams!
It has a decat pipe, allard EGR delete kit, Sachs clutch, and a Jabbersport remap to 200 bhp and 492 Nm.
It has done 88,000 miles with a recent timing belt and water pump change.
All was great till I decided to take it on the runway at my Air Force base, RAF Marham. We were running an airfield experience day and I wanted to see what my new baby could do.
She was pulling strong right up to about 130mph towards the end of the straight when suddenly there was a big cloud of black smoke, a disconcerting noise and a sudden loss of boost. Fearing the worst, I pulled into the pit area and popped the bonnet.
One of the jubilee clips for the intercooler piping had come loose and the pipe had come off. It was the attachment second from the right from the Allard EGR section. I will take some pictures if that would help anyone diagnose the problem. There was quite a lot of oil present so I cleaned it all off and re-attached the pipe. After starting the car I noticed quite a lot of white smoke coming from the exhaust especially at about 1500 rpm under acceleration.
After driving for about 25 minutes, this did not seem to get much better so I took it to my local garage where he has told me the oil level was 8mm above the maximum marker. This was the opposite from what I was expecting. The coolant level is still just above the maximum marker so does not seem to have lost any fluid there.
Could the level go up because the oil has escaped from somewhere else, like inside the turbo? He is now looking into it more but I fear the worst. I spoke to the previous owner and he assures me the oil was always kept at the correct level. He suggested the garage might be trying to pull a fast one but I doubt that as he has been good in the past. He suggests I may merely need to run it for longer to clear all the oil out.
It just seems so strange not so see any black smoke at all out the back, where I used to get loads, due to the aggressive remap. I do however have black streaks running down the back of my car suggesting a fair amount of oil is coming from the exhaust. And now, just pure white smoke. Does anyone have any ideas what could the problem be?
Thank you in advance for any help that you can give me.
Kind Regards,
Andrew
