White Smoke

MaxZ · Post by **MaxZ** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:45 pm

I noticed that after putting my foot down I get a little cloud of white smoke coming out similar to what you would get on a cold winter day. This doesn't happen when I drive with my foot barely on the accelerator, but when I put it quite reasonably down, the smoke comes out. Has anyone experienced this?

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:57 pm

Is it all the time, or from cold or when warmed up etc?

I have noticed a bit of white smoke from mine when its cold, generally regardless of the ambient temperature.

MaxZ · Post by **MaxZ** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:07 pm

I would call it fairly cold, i.e. first 5/10 minutes of driving

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:47 pm

Yeah that's typically when I get it, but not everytime.

david burton · Post by **david burton** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:40 am

got a different exhaust? white smoke when cold is likely to be condensation in your system, and the throttle pushes a bit of it out the back, where it changes to steam.

when it's warm it's more likely to be water getting into the exhaust when it shouldn't - i.e head gasket problems....

MaxZ · Post by **MaxZ** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:03 pm

Today it got really bad when I started the engine up, then on the way back home, the exhaust emission light came on. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

Bepe · Post by **Bepe** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:45 pm

how far was that journey? do you make long journeys short journeys?

MaxZ · Post by **MaxZ** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:47 pm

Very short journeys most of the time. This one was about 1 or 2 miles in when it came on, about 60 seconds later it came off.

Bepe · Post by **Bepe** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:51 pm

it mite be because the car isnt being able to Fully heat up, i had a similar problem, in my breather pipes was white gunge(no wasnt the headgasket) but i do short journeys about 7 miles then 7mile back, then thats it could be something to do with that max?

MaxZ · Post by **MaxZ** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:03 pm

It might be, because as soon as the light came off the engine temperature jumped up from like 85 to 90.

J-GTi · Post by **J-GTi** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:39 pm

I had a very simmilar problem, the solution is to take it on a nice long run till it's nicely warmed up and then give it a good thrash!!!

Trust me it's the best way to clean out all the crap that builds up in the engine!!!

Bepe · Post by **Bepe** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:04 pm

stick some injector cleaner in it aswell, also get some throttle body cleaner

MaxZ · Post by **MaxZ** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:51 am

J-GTi wrote:I had a very simmilar problem, the solution is to take it on a nice long run till it's nicely warmed up and then give it a good thrash!!!

Trust me it's the best way to clean out all the crap that builds up in the engine!!!

I might try to do that today, but what if it all goes wrong?

MaxZ · Post by **MaxZ** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:15 am

I've just thought about it, and this only started happening as last week I had no money to fill up the car so had to run it into the red a little bit. That might be the reason why all the dirt is in the engine. Ok went up and gave it a proper thrash for a good hour and a half, seems that the smoke has reduced quite significantly but hasn't gone altogether.