Hello all,
Right, basically, a few weeks ago driving home from Poole I noticed if I boosted hard there was smoke coming into the cabin of the car, after Returning home I realised I had squirted oil onto the bonnet and down onto the exhaust manifold, which was then flashing off and causing the smoke to occur. After having a poke around (like a plonker) I noticed that I had over filled the oil and put it down to this.
Having just been out in the car, I thought I would press her on around the by-pass to see How she would fair. After a big pull (of course within the speed limit) again car filled with smoke, but far far more than before to the point that I thought she had caught fire. Pulled Over opened the bonnet to find again oil all over the bonnet, all around the engine bay and again flashing off on the exhaust manifold and turbo. After a few minutes of allowing the oil to burn off the smoke had all but cleared up.
The difference this time being that the oil level was half full - well within the limits.
I've noticed both times that the dipstick has lifted out of its holder, could it be that, on full boost, as the oil pressurises it lifts my dipstick up spraying oil across the engine making a right mess or this there any other factors that I may have missed?
Please can someone shed some light on the situation as I am struggling to think of a different hypothesis. If it is the dipstick, is there anything I can do to solve the problem?
Many thanks
Ben