every now and then i get a bit of smoke from cold start up, im assuming this could be leakin valve seals, are these an easy job????

 

could it be anything else, i havent changed the oil for over a year (although only done 5000 miles of short journeys), could this help????

 

cheers

 

Allan

How much are you using it alan, if its sits for a while, the oil seeps into the zorsts, give it a good drive and it should clear it.

every day mate, its my daily drive

What colour is the smoke?

very light blue/white

You really need to change your oil more frequently. Even though you're not doing much mileage, short journeys can wreck an engine. I am sure that over the course of the year, the oil has absorbed quite a bit of engine condensate.

Edited February 25, 200916 yr by FunkySi

do you think that changing the oil would help/cure the prob

No, probably not. You may just have a bit of oily residue in the inlet. Could be from the PCVs, could be from the turbos or could be from valve stem oil seals.

If I remeber you are only doing short trips in it though?

If I remeber you are only doing short trips in it though?

 

Congratulations Sherlock! ;)

 

 

 

 

could it be anything else, i havent changed the oil for over a year (although only done 5000 miles of short journeys), could this help????

i found that this morn it smoked a little when driving up the street from cold start and it felt like it was missing slightly at higher revs

i found that this morn it smoked a little when driving up the street from cold start and it felt like it was missing slightly at higher revs

 

that sounds like its choking up on over-fueling mate untill you clear its throat..did'nt you have over fueling probs before alan a while back??

yeah,i still have, its more of a dark grey smoke now though

yeah,i still have, its more of a dark grey smoke now though

 

your car needs a good motorway canning or a hour or two run mate to push and burn the short run shite out the induction system;)

hmmmm, thougt about that, i was gonna do an oil change at the weekend and pop down to see me mam at the caravan

could be your lambda sensors are failing :(