Smokey 1.8

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Another problem, please bear with me.

 

My 1.8 seems to churn out blue smoke when the engine reaches a certain temperature, usually around the 80 degrees c mark. The fan's in good working order, but the same seems to happen when I floor it. It's using around a liter of oil every 800/1000 miles with heavy use of the right foot. Cruising, it's alot happier.

 

Would this be a piston ring problem? Inside the mill smells fine, and no milky residue popping up, the plugs haven't got the dreaded white/black residue on them but there is signs of arcing in the distributor cap.

 

Please, help. It's embarassing when I look in my mirror in a traffic jam and not being able to see the car behind for bloody smoke!

 

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[Crasher 3]

What grade/type of oil are you usin?

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Been using havoline lately, it has been a while since I drove the car so I can't quite remember what grade I was using, I do remember it being very cheap though. I know the oil is a bit crap for the car, I wouldn't have thought it would make it smoke so much though. :oops:

 

Do you think it's happening due to the less viscous type of oil i'm using?

[ValRado 0]

Could be valve stem seals? Does it smoke a lot on first startup in the morning?

 

Paul

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No i've started it up from cold specifically to sit behind it until it gets up to the usual point and there was no smoke whatsoever. Would the stem seals be a costly fix?

[Supercharged 2]

I'd change the oil first to silver syntha or similar and see how you get on...

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Cheers for the tip. I'll hunt some down. Got to drive it from Cumbria to Hampshire soon so I can have it at work, i'll get the oil (the one you reccommended) &filter changed beforehand & see how it goes.