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Offline jimmy_gti

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Engine smokey sometimes
« on: 12 January 2012, 21:46 »
Hi ive recently got my first gti turbo. Now and again it starts to smoke and smells abit oily other times its fine, has any 1 experienced this before or do they no what it is and is it costly to sort out any help is appreciated
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Offline sharki786

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Re: Engine smokey sometimes
« Reply #1 on: 13 January 2012, 14:18 »
taking it as its a mk4? could be a number of problems. worse case could be the turbo but depends on what colour the smoke is and how bad it is and when it happens. could also need a service, hook it up to vag-com and check for errors
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Offline richw911

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Re: Engine smokey sometimes
« Reply #2 on: 13 January 2012, 14:22 »
As said could be turbo seals - or somthing as simple as too much oil in it  :smiley:
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Re: Engine smokey sometimes
« Reply #3 on: 13 January 2012, 18:14 »
Valve stem oil seals!?

apparently these are very common to go on the 1.8t  :undecided:

mines smokes a bit on first initial start up and was advised thats what it was
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Re: Engine smokey sometimes
« Reply #4 on: 13 January 2012, 21:26 »
thanks for the help ill get it serviced first off. It still pulls like a train so hopefully not the turbo
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Offline simon20vt

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Re: Engine smokey sometimes
« Reply #5 on: 15 January 2012, 15:08 »
valve stem seals, had this on my first one. leave it running up to temperature on tickover, when up to temperature rev it, if you got a load of oil clear itself out the exhaust its you stem seals. if it doesnt do it when booting it constantly whilst driving, thats because its contantly clearing it out, and its not having chance to have leaking oil build up. i'm guessing it does it if your at traffic lights for a while, or parked up with engine running, then you drive off and it dumps a load of smoke, but then clears eventually.
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Re: Engine smokey sometimes
« Reply #6 on: 15 January 2012, 19:26 »
did it cost much to get done
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Offline Wayne

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Re: Engine smokey sometimes
« Reply #7 on: 15 January 2012, 20:30 »
What colour is the smoke, blue is a sign it is oil
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