worried after service!

[gazjones]

may be service related might not but got home after having 20k service done at local dealer and i left it idling for few mins outside i can back out few mins later and there was blue smoke coming out of the exhuast took it out for a little drive less than a mile and let it idle again no omre blue smoke anyone know what could have caused this slightly overfilling with oil maybe and its burnt the excess off
any ideas would be great!

 

[redcupratdi]

Blue Smoke: Blue smoke is caused by engine oil entering the cylinder area and being burned along with the fuel air mixture. As with the white smoke, just a small drop of oil leaking into the cylinder can produce blue smoke out the tailpipe. Blue smoke is more likely in older or higher mileage vehicles than newer cars with fewer miles.

How did the engine oil get inside the cylinder in the first place? The car has many seals, gaskets, and O-rings that are designed to keep the engine oil from entering the cylinder, and one of them has failed. If too much oil leaks into the cylinder and fouls the spark plug, it will cause a misfire (engine miss) in that cylinder, and the spark plug will have to be replaced or cleaned of the oil. Using thicker weight engine oil or an oil additive designed to reduce oil leaks might help reduce the amount of oil leaking into the cylinder.

 

[redcupratdi]

and if they over filled your cat wouldn't like it.

i'm sure it won't be aanythink serious but oil got burnt somewhere..whats it like now?

also gaz... 7.5 posts a day!!

 

[gazjones]

ive not real;ly driven it just cleaning it at first i though turbo but it didnt make any noises other than normal and pulled the same ill see how it goes!

 

[BJM]

Mine is due for it's 20K service soon - how much did they charge you for this mate? Hope the smoke is nothing to woory about.

Cheers

 

[gazjones]

it was 170 quid but i had a dealers 10 percent off voucher!

 

[BJM]

Cheers for that mate, I usualy go to the same dealer for everything but I think I'll be shopping around this time.

 

[gazjones]

to be honest its really not worth the money it was in for 1 hour worked out at 98 quid labour!!! doing my own from now on oil and filter i think as in a year it will be out of warrenty!!

 

[redcupratdi]

tbh mate...your car is heavily modified so i would get servicing done at jabba or another specailist..works out to be alot cheaper. i had first two services done by jabba..when turbo blew got it fixed straight away ..didn't even have a look at service records.

 

[gazjones]

yea now thats really the last service i need for the warrenty really next one will be just before it expires so ill get it done at tunning places now i think!

 

[andythom]

they'll have just slightly overfilled the oil mate, wouldn't worry, unless its sustained burning of oil.....

 

[gazjones]

cool hope thats all it is wil go check it now its cold!

 

[grq]

Dealers consisantly over fill my car with oil, so I reckon it'll be probably due to that

 

[BlackFR]

it was 170 quid but i had a dealers 10 percent off voucher!

WTF! see my thread here: http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1078078

Scarey differences in prices!