Zafira tourer engine smoking
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Can anyone give me some advice please.
I have a 64reg zafira tourer 2.0 tdci, 165ps.
About a month ago I noticed it was really smokey. Thick blue smoke, burning oil.
It was worse when it was off boost, between 1200 and 1500rpm.
There were no warning lights or fault codes (I checked with a cheap obd scanner I have)
The car drove as normal,pulled through all the gears, was just smokey
It was also really bad just as it got up to temp, before for the first mile nothing, after the initial burst of smoke, it slowed to nothing visible when driven at 70mph.
When warm and at idle on the driveway a steady stream of blue smoke, smells like burning oil, looks similar to a cold morning start, nothing too bad.
Took it into a garage, said the turbo seal has gone and is dumping oil down the exhaust, which made sense.
Got it done, releived me if £1200, and said it will still smoke for a while as its got a load of oil in the exhaust (I estimate it, dumped 3 - 4 litres, based on the oil level from the dipstick).
It's been over a week and this weekend, took it for a run, warmed it up, left it idling on the drive for 3 hours, water temp was 88, oil temp was 75. I took it for another run and wow... It was smoking horrifically. Imagine a tank on the battlefield creating a smokescreen and you'll have some idea.
After the run of 30 odd miles, it was clear and back to only smoking at idle.
Now my issue is I have checked the oil level after the last run and it's not measuring any on the dipstick.
I've taken it to the garage and they say the new turbo is fine and there is now no visible oil in the manifold end of the exhaust, where's previously there was loads. According to them the old turbo was definitely knackered and it has definitely been replaced along with feed pipes(i can see it looks new)
My problem. Is how can a car go from burning no oil to all of a sudden burning all of it over half a dozen runs and about 150 miles. There are again no warning lights, no degraded performance, no fault codes. Is it possible to go from good to bad without seeing a gradual increase of oil consumption over time, could it be they didn't put any oil in it when they changed the turbo? Could it be another issue that is still happening and caused the old turbo to fail (if So, what)? Surely if that much oil was leaking into the combustion chamber (around 25ml of oil every 1 mile) there would be some form of misfire or degraded performance?
Any help or advice someone can give will be greatly appreciated
I have a 64reg zafira tourer 2.0 tdci, 165ps.
About a month ago I noticed it was really smokey. Thick blue smoke, burning oil.
It was worse when it was off boost, between 1200 and 1500rpm.
There were no warning lights or fault codes (I checked with a cheap obd scanner I have)
The car drove as normal,pulled through all the gears, was just smokey
It was also really bad just as it got up to temp, before for the first mile nothing, after the initial burst of smoke, it slowed to nothing visible when driven at 70mph.
When warm and at idle on the driveway a steady stream of blue smoke, smells like burning oil, looks similar to a cold morning start, nothing too bad.
Took it into a garage, said the turbo seal has gone and is dumping oil down the exhaust, which made sense.
Got it done, releived me if £1200, and said it will still smoke for a while as its got a load of oil in the exhaust (I estimate it, dumped 3 - 4 litres, based on the oil level from the dipstick).
It's been over a week and this weekend, took it for a run, warmed it up, left it idling on the drive for 3 hours, water temp was 88, oil temp was 75. I took it for another run and wow... It was smoking horrifically. Imagine a tank on the battlefield creating a smokescreen and you'll have some idea.
After the run of 30 odd miles, it was clear and back to only smoking at idle.
Now my issue is I have checked the oil level after the last run and it's not measuring any on the dipstick.
I've taken it to the garage and they say the new turbo is fine and there is now no visible oil in the manifold end of the exhaust, where's previously there was loads. According to them the old turbo was definitely knackered and it has definitely been replaced along with feed pipes(i can see it looks new)
My problem. Is how can a car go from burning no oil to all of a sudden burning all of it over half a dozen runs and about 150 miles. There are again no warning lights, no degraded performance, no fault codes. Is it possible to go from good to bad without seeing a gradual increase of oil consumption over time, could it be they didn't put any oil in it when they changed the turbo? Could it be another issue that is still happening and caused the old turbo to fail (if So, what)? Surely if that much oil was leaking into the combustion chamber (around 25ml of oil every 1 mile) there would be some form of misfire or degraded performance?
Any help or advice someone can give will be greatly appreciated
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