I'm not sure if it's bad or important or something is desperately wrong????

 

I started up the Z to move it fo rthe girlfriend to park her MGF behind my Z, there was a small amount of white smoke coming out of the drivers side twin pipes.......

 

I left it idleing after I moved it forward and I parked her car (she couldn't get into the hooooge gap I had left!!) and I thought I'll rev the Z a bit and se if that shifts the smoke.....

 

How wrong could I be.........plumes of the white stuff, scared the crap out of me as I have just had a full 60k service!!

 

The oil level was high when I checked but I am parked on a bit of a hill!! (see pics in 99 spec front.....YAY! post to see hill!)

 

What I want to know is;

 

a) Too much oil (not a problem, burn it off soon)

 

b) Turbo's are on way out (fook shitting hell!!)

 

c) Something else I have no idea about....

 

HELP!

 

Matty.

Matty you worry freak!! your beloved zed has been off the road for a fortnight been moved in and out of the workshop half a dozen times or so and most likely has condensation in the exhaust system (lol)

 

Like we discussed it`s the zed owner paranoia thing : What`s that noise? ? what`s that smell?? what`s that smoke?? he, he, he did it myself at the weekend thinking I could smell petrol as I drove my zed, but coul not see any leaks ?? still slowed down just in case (but why?)

 

 

Jeff TT

Has it had the PCV valves replaced? Being stood will be more likely to cause the oil in them to sludge up so they could well be sticking ;)

 

HTH

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

I've just checked through the history of the car and at no point have the PCV valves been replaced............

 

Expensive????

 

Cheers fella's!

 

Matty.

Mines started to do that a lot, just out of the drivers side when i'm stood in traffic or at the lights. Plumes of white smoke, then when i drive away it clears up. I though it could be the turbo but its fine when i boost it.

Originally posted by Matty

I've just checked through the history of the car and at no point have the PCV valves been replaced............

 

Expensive????

 

Cheers fella's!

 

Matty.

 

no, there very cheap, a little akward but quite easy to do too ;)

 

just get new pipes as the old ones will be rock hard