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steveb63

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Hi,

Well my car (2001 2.7 - mine for last 4.5 years) kept the motorists of Shipley entertained tonight on my way home from work.

No warning - driving along at a very sedate 30mph and suddenly HUGE clouds of thick white smoke from the exhaust! No warning lights on the dash before, during or after.

Lost power at the bottom of the hill up to my house and have left the car in a lay by about a mile away. (Locked and Alarmed!) - A few drops of oil coming from the exhaust.

Will contact my local indy tomorrow - but any guesses? Car has done about 80,000 miles and has always had good reports at MOT time re emissions etc.

Air oil separator? or worse?

When I set off this morning oil was at the usual level but after all the commotion was at about 2/3rds but then that was without allowing the oil to settle?

Any words of comfort would be appreciated!
 
AOS, start the car up again now its cold - it should all be fine again, though there may be a bit of smoke from residual oil in the pipes that get drawn into the engine.

AOS does its job once the engine is hot as it reduces oil mist from getting into the induction - the mist is evaporated oil - therefore once cold there is no mist to handle.

Never heard of a head gasket blowing in the way you describe the incident, you would have had a rapid increase in water temperature.
The loss of power would be i guess from fouled spark plugs from the oil contamination
 
I've had a couple of head gaskets go in exactly the manner described, admittedly not in the Boxster though!

I would expect a fialing AOS to produce blue smoke.

Blue smoke is oil, white is water.
 
Many Thanks all for taking the time to reply,

Had a fairly tortuous morning - getting my car to ( on a flat bed AA wagon) my local indy - strasse in leeds - who were great in every way - from looking at my car at such short notice - to giving me a lift to the train station so that I could at least put in some kind of appearance at work today!

Turns out it was the Air/Oil separator that had given up the ghost - apparantly some kind of membrane that should only let oil vapour through - not the oil itself!

Picked the car up at 4:45pm and back to normal - a great relief - after spending the previous night considering the pros and cons of a reconditioned engine!

So thanks again and thanks to Strasse - £240 everything included - gonna sleep a lot better tonight!

Steve H.
 
Wow, That was cheap for a new AOS fitted, usually in the region of £500.

Alarming when it goes but the part is just over £50 just a real pain to fit, glad its sorted
 
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