Ok I stop today after a 10 minutes steady drive and noticed a smell of smoke filling the cockpit, got out and checked the exhaust.... no smoke, went to get back in car and noticed a plume of smoke on the drivers side bonnet so I popped the lid. The smoke wasnt coming from the engine bay but rather from the wheel arch, close inspection behind the panel saw that smoke was building up there when stationary (where AIVs are located). It smells like oily exhaust smoke.

 

 

Im going to strip back there tomorrow and take a closer look, but has anyone experienced this before?

Mike

I had a similar experience after running my car for a short distance, except it was the passenger side. The fault turned out to be leaking camshaft seals. I resealed the rocker covers first but then had to strip the front end down to replace the cam seals.I could feel the oil when i put my hand down the front of the engine and above the air cond pump against the plate at the back of the cam cover..it was running onto the exhaust and burning, with quite a lot of smoke..with the bonnet opened the smoke came up from the back of the engine.

 

HTH John Crisp

I have a feeling its the clutch, it slipped a lot the other day to 6k either that or the rear seal :(

The smoke is white btw, would this indicate coolant problem?

sure it hasnt blown a small coolant line?

sorry mike i guess my info is *****ks.

 

 

Cheers and good luck...john crisp

john all info is much welcomed :) it could be anything knowing these cars,

 

I just used the search function and a few popped up saying it could be clutch or maybe coolant if its white smoke (which it is)

 

what colour was your smoke joh?

well you checked your radiator then? ;)

Mike tbh i would say it was white too but i never really took notice of the colour....all i know is it was burning oil for definate and would be flumes of smoke coming out the wheel arch on the pass side..........it is difficult to access the plate at the back of the cam cover but when i put my hand and felt the back of the cover...it was wet and the oil was dripping down and running back towards the turbo's.

 

 

HTH Cheers john crisp

well smoke has gone today..... Just taken for a 20 minute semi hard run and then left to idle for 10 minutes and zero smoke, Guess now is possibly something from road caught up on exhaust (retarring all the roads around here)

 

Oil level is fine and clutch is biting perfectly, coolant level is fine as well.