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Offline Horney

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Re: Piston Rings (white smoke)
« Reply #20 on: 02 July 2009, 12:27 »
Humm not a good prognosis mate. Engine rebuild will be pointless as it'll be more than the car is worth. You'll either need to source a good used lump or sell the car on and start again.

They done dry and then wet compression test yet to confirm it's the rings?

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Offline bondbill2k2

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Re: Piston Rings (white smoke)
« Reply #21 on: 02 July 2009, 12:37 »
Quote from: Horney on 02 July 2009, 12:27
Humm not a good prognosis mate. Engine rebuild will be pointless as it'll be more than the car is worth. You'll either need to source a good used lump or sell the car on and start again.

They done dry and then wet compression test yet to confirm it's the rings?

nick

Thats what i was worried about, had a quote for £550 full engine rebuild. Not really worth it on a T reg 1.4 tho.

Didnt do a compression test, guy reved it in car park abit and said yer defo that. Was at that VW rescue, had it booked in for diagnostics and said
"no point doing it , its scrap."
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Offline Baylez8v

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Re: Piston Rings (white smoke)
« Reply #22 on: 02 July 2009, 12:46 »
tht sounds like a hasty diagnosis to me.... smoke when reving could be loads of things, and besides i was pretty sure that piston rings meant that oil was getting burnt, which equals blue smoke
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Re: Piston Rings (white smoke)
« Reply #23 on: 02 July 2009, 12:58 »
Get them to test it properly, you can't make a choice as to hat to do on a quick rev in a car park.

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Re: Piston Rings (white smoke)
« Reply #24 on: 02 July 2009, 13:07 »
Piston rings gone gives out blue smoke. Shadys cars rings are gone and you can clearly see light blue smoke.
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Re: Piston Rings (white smoke)
« Reply #25 on: 02 July 2009, 13:27 »
Just topped oil up and yer theres a fair bit of smoke when rev it now, much more then before.


http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Bondbill2k2/?action=view&current=02072009023.flv

Just deciding what to do now, sell it on?
Repair it and use it?

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Offline james2

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Re: Piston Rings (white smoke)
« Reply #26 on: 02 July 2009, 14:29 »
BUY SOME SMOKE STOP FLUID FROM HALFORDS ,SHOULD HELP THEN SELL IT  :wink:
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Re: Piston Rings (white smoke)
« Reply #27 on: 02 July 2009, 14:51 »
Nvm, gd news kinda!

dads mate who runs a small family run garage doing it for £300. Rebuild, new rings, skim head etc...
 :smiley: cheap enough to make it worth while doing
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Re: Piston Rings (white smoke)
« Reply #28 on: 02 July 2009, 15:18 »
from that video i would keep driving it and not worry, thats feck all smoke
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Re: Piston Rings (white smoke)
« Reply #29 on: 02 July 2009, 15:20 »
If you still want to run vagcom over it i'll be at r-tech's workshop tomorrow at about midday, i'd be happy to run a quick scan for you.
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