HI All

Not much knowledge as far as cars go but know something not right..

Car has done a lot of miles but only been driven intermittently recently.

White/blueish smoke coming from exhaust. This does not happen at start up, only once engine has warmed a bit, in first and second gears most noticeable when going from idle as accelerate past 2000 rpm smoke appears from exhaust then clears as revs/speed builds.

I have kept an eye on levels and all seems fine, definitely not losing any water but have not had chance to put too many miles on it so can't tell for sure with the oil.

Any ideas as to the likely problems??

I am taking it to the Local Skoda garage tonight to have a quick check up and see what they say. Any advice on garages around Chichester area who might be better price wise for any repauirs than the skoda garage!

HI All

Not much knowledge as far as cars go but know something not right..

Car has done a lot of miles but only been driven intermittently recently.

White/blueish smoke coming from exhaust. This does not happen at start up, only once engine has warmed a bit, in first and second gears most noticeable when going from idle as accelerate past 2000 rpm smoke appears from exhaust then clears as revs/speed builds.

I have kept an eye on levels and all seems fine, definitely not losing any water but have not had chance to put too many miles on it so can't tell for sure with the oil.

Any ideas as to the likely problems??

I am taking it to the Local Skoda garage tonight to have a quick check up and see what they say. Any advice on garages around Chichester area who might be better price wise for any repauirs than the skoda garage!

If its fine on idle then I wouldn't worry. 99% of diesel kick out a bit of smoke when accelerating past 2000rpmas it the turbo kicking in. Just check the oil levels over the next few thousand miles.

Sounds normal to me.

Really?

It is more than a little bit of smoke coming out and never had anything like this on any of the other diesels I have owned.

Turbo knackered i would say, leaking oil, hence smoke.

See this recent thread. http://www.briskoda....my-turbo-blown/

The clue in your post is that smoke starts at 2000 revs which is about when the turbo gets active.

I'd say turbo too. Whitish/blue smoke isn't good.

Ok will know for sure tonight but sounds like the turbo is blown.....Gutted.

As the car has done 200,000 plus miles probably go down the second hand route and get my cousin to fit it at his garage.

What information will I need to know to pick a suitable turbo off ebay and will other parts need replacing at the same time?

Thanks for all the responses by the way.

Edited 20 June, 201214 yr by wella2010

You need to know your engine code to pick an appropriate turbo.

Also worth replacing the oil feed pipes while you're there as these can gunk up/leak and cause oil starvation to the turbo.

Phil

i imagine this would do the trick:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-ALH-TDI-98-05-Turbocharger-Bora-Golf-Beetle-Turbo-/330751901705?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4d02598009#ht_2875wt_1272

check suitability of course but thats new and cheaper than a second hand turbo

Right just got the call from the garage and they say it is the piston rings leaking which is causing the issue.

They stated that it would cost £1000 + to sort and so not worth doing on a car of this age.

Is there any way back for the car/any suggestions/options?

Have they tested them, the symptoms you describe are of turbo failing. Piston rings would smoke all the time, even at idle since the compression is the same regardless of engine RPM. The 1.9 TDI engine is good for a lot more than 200K miles, the turbo is most likely to go before the engine block.

Well I took it to the local Skoda Garage for their £50 check up service. They seemed pretty certain on the phone.

What tests should they have run to ensure it is actually the piston rings?? As going to collect car in a minute so can ask them again.

There £50 check up service proberbly just involved hooking up the computer to read any fault codes, to check the piston rings each cylinder will need to be compression tested.

So collected car and spoke to service chap at garage and they ran a smoke test on the car but did not do anything else as it was obvious from this. Apparently the car was blowing smoke rings and looking closer at it the car does seem to be releasing smoke at all times I just could not see it when idling at first. He also said that some oil had leaked into the coolant or vice versa and that the car could go for another 20,000 miles or die tomorrow.

They did not run a compression test and to be fair they did not charge me for the check over.

So should I get a compression test done with the view to repairing the issue or just save my money and start looking for another car??

I would just run it until it dies, or try and trade it in. I wouldn't be paying upwards of £1000 for new piston rings.