Hi all😊,

Our beloved 2001 tdi estates turbo packed up a few months back. Just fitted a new turbo, but the exhaust system had oil draining from the tail pipe when it happened, as well as masses of smoke!, so have removed the whole thing.

Hardly any oil has drained out since standing each section end on. Any tips on cleaning it out please peeps? Thought about burning it in a oil drum with wood to get it hot, but daresay that would eff it!🥴, any ideas?🙏

If you have drained as much as you can then I would put exhaust back on and give the car a really good run. It should eventually burn off once upto a decent temperature. You could also try compressed air first. Wrap a rag round compressed air hose to seal it at one end of exhaust and see if it helps to remove anymore. If the turbo blew it might be worth checking intercooler and clean it as it may well be full of oil as well if it hasnt already been checked

Alasdair.

Well took it for a test run yesterday of about 12 miles, got it good and warm, so had the odd ‘James Bond’ style smoke screen following me!?🥴. Why is it you always see people you know when embaressing things are happening? But it does clear, then you give it some welly and it will smoke a bit more. There was a lot of oil stuck to the inside of the exhaust pipes though, so dare say it’ll take a while to burn off .

But it runs well, checked levels again and all good, goes well too although I’ve been careful with it, so fingers crossed it’s ok🙏👍.

Glad its running well and hopefully the oil will disapear/burn off fairly quickly. If its a new turbo then perhaps an other oil change and filter in the next few months depending on the mileage your doing. Had a turbo blow on an old volvo 940. Never seen so much smoke ever. Filled Lidl car park within about 30 secs. Lucky I noticed it (hard not to) It was dumpng oil into exhaust etc. Weird thing was there was no warning. Turbo seals seemed to fail instantly. My old mechanic friend reccomended an oil change after a few thousand miles as it was a new turbo.

Alasdair

This was the same- the Intercooler ducting rubbed through the cooling fins on the Intercooler, so replaced it with a new one. Did and oil/filter change the same time. Then drove it round the block and boy looked in the mirror and thick white smoke plumed out behind the car! Went home smartish and found it had ditched pretty much all the oil I’d just put in. Hence the new turbo now.

Good idea doing another oil change before long though, will do.

All the best😊👍