Hello, I am new to the forum since purchasing a 996 C4S 2001/2 earlier this year.
All has been great and I love the car to bits.
The other day after being sat overnight I fired her up as usual and a fair amount of white smelly smoke came out the exhausts, (it wasn'y just condensation), and then about 5 seconds later it was just condensation.
I really hoped it was a weird one off but it did the same thing later, less smoke but had only been sat 2 hours.
Then this morning after a worrying sleep I fired her up and rushed to the rear to see what was going on. This time the smoke looked more blue
a very small cloud but smelly and after about 2 seconds it cleared to just condesation.
I unscrewed the oil cap this afternoon and there appears to be a mayonaisy looking gunk sat at the top of the pipe.
Have you got any thoughts on the problem, do you think its the head gasket?
The car has Gold warranty for another 11 months so that's one bonus.
All has been great and I love the car to bits.
The other day after being sat overnight I fired her up as usual and a fair amount of white smelly smoke came out the exhausts, (it wasn'y just condensation), and then about 5 seconds later it was just condensation.
I really hoped it was a weird one off but it did the same thing later, less smoke but had only been sat 2 hours.
Then this morning after a worrying sleep I fired her up and rushed to the rear to see what was going on. This time the smoke looked more blue
a very small cloud but smelly and after about 2 seconds it cleared to just condesation.
I unscrewed the oil cap this afternoon and there appears to be a mayonaisy looking gunk sat at the top of the pipe.
Have you got any thoughts on the problem, do you think its the head gasket?
The car has Gold warranty for another 11 months so that's one bonus.