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#1 powermadcoop

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Posted 11 May 2009 - 10:04 AM

1992 SPi Cooper

I get a bit of white smoke sometimes when i startup. it goes after a second like its just gettinf rid of some condensation in the exhaust but is there anything else that might cause this?

no difference in driving or anything like that..........

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Posted 11 May 2009 - 10:13 AM

my car blows smoke out aswell,
it feels quite low on power but it is a 998 so i dunno,
but the car ran really good when i first got it in september last year

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Posted 11 May 2009 - 10:18 AM

can you get hold of a compression tester, maybe a small possibility the head gasket may be going?

#4 jaydee

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Posted 11 May 2009 - 10:23 AM

If its only during a cold start in the morning, it is condensation. If u get white smoke when engines is hot, this is usually an headgasket fault..

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Posted 12 May 2009 - 06:04 PM

sound :D




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