Clouds of white smoke tdi, turbo gone maybe??

leapy

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Oct 10, 2006
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N.IRELAND
my brothers 02 leon 90bhp(remapped to 130) just went pop on the motorway in a cloud of black smoke.he had it recovered home but when coming off the recovery wagon it was belting out a whitesh smoke.he has to wait till tomorrow to get it looked at.anyone got any ideas is it the turbo????
 
Dec 6, 2008
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Shropshire
my brothers 02 leon 90bhp(remapped to 130) just went pop on the motorway in a cloud of black smoke.he had it recovered home but when coming off the recovery wagon it was belting out a whitesh smoke.he has to wait till tomorrow to get it looked at.anyone got any ideas is it the turbo????

Id guess at no.
as a general rule
white smoke = water
blue smoke = oil (turbo)
black smoke = fuel (unburnt hydrocarbons)
 

Trinzels

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Turbo

Ive got a 1.9TDI 150 FR, 2 weeks ago the coolant light came on and the car started kicking out white smoke.

The AA man couldnt tell what was wrong. He checked the head gasket, fine. I had lost coolant but there was no coolant leak and the car had plenty of oil.

Sent it off to the garage and turns out it was the turbo so I wouldnt rule it out yet.
 
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