white smoking exhaust

[nally270lb.TQE]

This has happened 4 times now. Basically i can drive the car with no issues other than boost surge. on the occasions that this has happened i have driven roughly 20 miles and been stopped at a red light or junction and plumes of white smoke comes out the exhaust. I turn off the car drive off then it goes away. I have read this could be the Turbo, lamda , head gasket etc etc. I have seen no change in coolant level, turbo seems fine to me, the car was over filled during an oil change by a garage could it be this is just burning off?

Cheers , Luke.

 

[M20FES]

This has happened 4 times now. Basically i can drive the car with no issues other than boost surge. on the occasions that this has happened i have driven roughly 20 miles and been stopped at a red light or junction and plumes of white smoke comes out the exhaust. I turn off the car drive off then it goes away. I have read this could be the Turbo, lamda , head gasket etc etc. I have seen no change in coolant level, turbo seems fine to me, the car was over filled during an oil change by a garage could it be this is just burning off?

Cheers , Luke.

same thing is happening to me, just after i did an oil change, i used castrol edge and put in about 4.5L and its reading the right level on the dipstick ?

 

[nally270lb.TQE]

I have read through some sites and forums and what i am seeing seems to point to the oil.i gave the garage mobil 1 and he just filled it up with everything. MUPPET. going to drain and refill then see what happens. however if yours is filled correctly it shouldnt be that should it?

 

[frodnex]

for me its same , white smoke when i changed oil... why is that ****?

 

[LCRnorwich]

I get the same issue from my LCR, figured it was just condensation in the exhaust turning to steam? Would have thought if it was oil it would have a bluey colour to it?

 

[swedey21]

Does it smell like oil?
Mines been doing this for a bit now,and is the turbo seals in the hot side,looks like white smoke but is burning oil.
Only does it when standing still for bit,doesnt smoke any other time.
Waiting for it to get worse then going hybrid route.

 

[Begley]

Guy's my leon cupra R has just started this 2night.I changed the oil last Friday an its putting out some white smoke.What is the best grade of oil and what type is the best for these cars.

 

[cupra_matt86]

My cupra just started doing this aswel. I put some magnatec in and it started to do it. Got oil changed back to what it was on before, and it pretty much went, but it done it again the other day. Not much smell, just plumes of white smoke

 

[Mattyboy1]

Mine is doing this aswell and mine has castrol edge in it too. But it will only do it occasionally I drove for about 20 mins last night then left the car ticking over and nothing. Mine smells a bit like petrol might just be me imagining that though.

 

[nally270lb.TQE]

Just to let you know, I changed my oil filter and oil and sensor and the smoke is now gone, the car had too much oil in it so think it was burning it off.

 

[Mattyboy1]

What's the sensor you changed

 

[nally270lb.TQE]

oil level sensor, i flushed the engine with castrol edge so wasnt cheap but seems to have done the job

 

[Mattyboy1]

oil level sensor, i flushed the engine with castrol edge so wasnt cheap but seems to have done the job

Nice one cheers mate. What oil did you put in it after you flushed it through.

 

[glynnd]

I get the same issue from my LCR, figured it was just condensation in the exhaust turning to steam? Would have thought if it was oil it would have a bluey colour to it?

Synthetic oil doesnt smoke blue.

 

[nally270lb.TQE]

castrol edge 5-30. same as what i flushed with mate. Seems like from forums i have been on this is one of the better oils for high mileage vag engines

 

[Mattyboy1]

castrol edge 5-30. same as what i flushed with mate. Seems like from forums i have been on this is one of the better oils for high mileage vag engines

Ok thanks mate

 

[Mattyboy1]

Just to let you know, I changed my oil filter and oil and sensor and the smoke is now gone, the car had too much oil in it so think it was burning it off.

Did you need to change the sensor though can you not tell how much is in there by the dipstick.

 

[nally270lb.TQE]

The sensor is a combined level/temperature sensor and simply lights up the yellow LED if the oil is either too hot or too low. (taken from a post bu muttley) I would rather have it working instead of checking oil before and after every trip. If you were driving and loosing oil you wouldnt notice untill engine went kaput!

 

[Mattyboy1]

The sensor is a combined level/temperature sensor and simply lights up the yellow LED if the oil is either too hot or too low. (taken from a post bu muttley) I would rather have it working instead of checking oil before and after every trip. If you were driving and loosing oil you wouldnt notice untill engine went kaput!

Oh right didn't realise it done both. Nice one glad you got yours sorted.

 

[Mattyboy1]

Did anyone else ever get to the bottom of this