Smokey issue

[chillcupra]

I have noticed that sometimes when I put my foot down especially in 6th I get a puff of white/grey smoke. Most of the time its black but wonderd what It could be.

Cheers

 

[Fastbaz]

sounds about right for a diesel mine smokes when you accelerate a bit but thats normal even more so if you havent exercised the vanes in the turbo for a while they can get stuck up with diesel/soot depoists so its usually a good idea to open the beast up every now and again in lower revs to get the vanes fully open and hot that burns the cr$p off and makes abit of smoke but what the hell

 

[TonyK]

Given your power I'd say you've had it remapped ... mine didn't smoke before my remap .. it does now!

 

[chillcupra]

The amount of smoke is fine i mean the colour is sometimes a whitish grey?

 

[aaronbromley]

It's nothing to worry about, both mapped and standard cars can do this, more noticeable on remapped cars though. You will find it can smoke a little more if not used for a while or not had a good clear-out for sometime.

 

[chillcupra]

So the white smoke is nothing to worry about. I thought it wud idicate that the turbo is on it way out?

 

[devonmikeyboy]

So the white smoke is nothing to worry about. I thought it wud idicate that the turbo is on it way out?

Nothing to worry about.

 

[UncleFester]

Drive it well every day and it probably won't smoke at all ... only time mine smokes is the 5 seconds after it has been started.

 

[aaronbromley]

Ok, sorry didnt read your post thoroughly enough. Are you getting anything else other than whiteish smoke? As i must admit on mine it is very hard to tell what colour the smoke is really. Are there any abnormal whistles/squeeks coming from the turbo when going on and coming off boost?

 

[andy.0101]

mine tdi sport was smoking when you put yer foot down ,but ive been reading the threads about the EGR valve and ive fitted a blanking plate between the valve and the exhaust gas pipe
this has stopped the car smoking completely

 

[micky 32]

mine tdi sport was smoking when you put yer foot down ,but ive been reading the threads about the EGR valve and ive fitted a blanking plate between the valve and the exhaust gas pipe
this has stopped the car smoking completely

The problem with that is it will cause a fault code. The PD150/160's set up has an additional sensor for emmisions where the PD130's hadn't.

Regarding the smoke, It's all down to the experience of the mapper. My car with 220bhp+ doesn't do that.