swordy21
Thursday 19th May 2005, 13:00
Would be a perfect complement to my weekus horribulis
Coming out of Dover yesterday, I hoofed the old girl up a hill, past an Italian lorry hellbent on taking everyone out on roundabouts, Just after the boost spiked (just over 1.1bar), and the tranny changed up, I spotted a little puff of white smoke out the back of the car. Only once mind. Not being 100% sure of what I saw, I tried to replicate the occurrence but to no avail. So I put the thing down to the wastegate opening or the ECU shutting off the ignition for a fraction off a second. But now seeing another thread today, It may be that it picked up a bit of oil and blew it through the turbo oil seals as I was accelerating very hard uphill.
I have no other indications of problems, it does puff a little bit of white smoke on cold start up, but I put this down to a bit of oil seepage overnight down the valve stems etc.
Anyone have any other ideas? Or what to look out for? I haven’t fettled with my wastegate actuator yet (was going to but maybe not now, reading what has been said about detonation etc)
PS saw a couple of T5s in Kent – Silver one in Tesco Car Park at JN12 M20 @ 9.30. There was another one, but can’t remember where or when.
Cheers
Coming out of Dover yesterday, I hoofed the old girl up a hill, past an Italian lorry hellbent on taking everyone out on roundabouts, Just after the boost spiked (just over 1.1bar), and the tranny changed up, I spotted a little puff of white smoke out the back of the car. Only once mind. Not being 100% sure of what I saw, I tried to replicate the occurrence but to no avail. So I put the thing down to the wastegate opening or the ECU shutting off the ignition for a fraction off a second. But now seeing another thread today, It may be that it picked up a bit of oil and blew it through the turbo oil seals as I was accelerating very hard uphill.
I have no other indications of problems, it does puff a little bit of white smoke on cold start up, but I put this down to a bit of oil seepage overnight down the valve stems etc.
Anyone have any other ideas? Or what to look out for? I haven’t fettled with my wastegate actuator yet (was going to but maybe not now, reading what has been said about detonation etc)
PS saw a couple of T5s in Kent – Silver one in Tesco Car Park at JN12 M20 @ 9.30. There was another one, but can’t remember where or when.
Cheers