Mini cooper s white smoke from exhaust

But after meters i went downhill for meters and when i stoppe i saw white smoke from my exhaust. I just drived for kilometers, car still feels normal, and then i made another stop and there was no smoke from exhaust on idle. White smoke from exhaust after idling for a few minutes.

When the car stays still and idles for a few minutes and then you drive after idling it white smoke comes. Mini Cooper S exhaust Smoke. SOURCE: white smoke coming from exhaust when accelerating This is usually an indication of a bad head gasket. The white smoke is the coolant leaking out of the engine and winding up in the oil passages, due to a bad head gasket.

Problems, Questions and Technical: Evening, Well El Gordo seems to have taken up smoking on start up now. I get a nice bit of white smoke from the exhaust on start up. Lasts about 5mins then its gone. I did think she was running a bit rich El Gordo.

Cylinder compression can be tested to get an indication of the condition of the rings. In this case, the white -like smoke could be oil smoke or could be due to coolant entering one or more combustion chambers in the engine. I had to Take it back to the garage because they hadn’t changed a seal and it was leaking oil. I had also flagged to them that it was intermittently billowing white smoke.

It appears they did not address the issue with the white smoke from the exhaust. Most likely caused by a blown head gasket. Stop driving the car until you can have this repaired.

Otherwise if you do have coolant entering the combustion chamber you will destroy the engine. I manage to miss most of the lights home, car runs great. I put the car in gear and take off, and it stumbles a bit, there is a whisp of white smoke from under the hoo and a poof of white smoke from the exhaust.

When it reaches operating temperature, I get white smoke coming out the exhaust on idle and on overruns (rev, and step off). If I drive at constant speed (e.g. on motorway), no smoke. When I hit traffic, smoke appears. No problem with acceleration or turbo boost.

No degradation of coolant or oil. Car ran fine with old MINI Cooper S turbo and this mod. Parked car for a bit and installed more mods: - pulled the ~87k mile MINI Cooper S turbo and replaced with direct swap, slightly larger JCW turbo brand new from Borg Warner (OEM part.

Relatively common turbo upgrade). Bimmer Dude 76views. As a car owner you expect something to come from the tailpipe. This is an emissions outlet for your vehicle, and so vapors will exit from there.

What Your Exhaust Smoke Is. Please note that this repair requires putting the MINI in it’ s service position. Now white smoke that very faintly smells. If I continue to drive the car the smoke continue to come out. Under acceleration, about 3-4k upwards there is white smoke coming out the exhaust.

Just wondered what this could be really. The most recently reported issues are listed below.