Hi all i amat abit of a loss with a problem on my Mk1 octavia vrs she started to smoke on overrun when letting off of the accelarater which led me tobelieve

it was the turbo so off it came and you guessed it the spool wheel had been hitting the sides there was thatmuch play and it was all cracked around the waste gate so i sent it away and got recon turbo and fitted it the following day she ran fine and sat idealing for about 15 mins to getthe new oil which is 5w 30w up to temp then i jumped in her and off i went well 5 mins later i had a massive flow of white and blue smoke on the exhaust so popped the bonnet and disconnected the intercooler to inlet manifold pipe and reved the engine and oil flew out the pipe like i had turned a tap on i limped her back home which was about a mile and she had used all the oil in the engine

now i believe the turbo is a fault but the company i had it from claim they have done a VGR test on the turbo and it all runs fine and i must have a problem with the engine like she has dropped a ring which i find hard as she runs fine they also told me that it could be passing the oil throw the rings or the oil return pipe is blocked (which i have cheaked and it seems fine)

if anyone has any ideas please let me know

thanx for your time

Hey dogg I once had this issue on an mr2 turbo I used to own . The original turbo failed on me . I had blue , black , White , every colour smoke puffing from the exhaust .. I picked up a replacement turbo an fitted her myself an it still smoked like a lunatic . A mechanic diagnosed the problem as being my intercooler was full of the old oil that the original turbo had been drinking . Just a thought , but it could be the same for u

thanx for the insite and i had cheaked theintercooler the only thing that makes me think its not that is the fact it used all the engine oil out the engine

Another issue with my mr2 was a cracked piston ... She milled through oil . That teamed up with the turbo . She was a nightmare . Had to scrap it in the end . Perhaps a compression test to test for rings?

then she would smoke all the time she is only giving the problem under boots

Might be worth getting a compression test done, if its ok throw it back at the turbo company with the results

sounds very much like the oil seals have failed straight away on the new turbo!!

did you prime the new turbo with oil when fitting and did you find the source of the original problem that caused the turbo to fail in the first place???

the old turbo was knackered from poor maintenance from the other owner before me and yeah i fulled the turbo up with oil slowly turned her byhand then connected her to the engine and attached the oil inline pipe and cranked the engine without it fireing to make sure the oil flowed out the turbo then finished fitting the rest of it

I would agree with clive, think new turbo seals have failed,

If it had dropped a ring i would think it would be smoking all time even on idle, might be worth just wipping plugs out and making sure there all okay but to use even a litre of oil in a 5 mile drive shouldn't be to hard to diagnose