sketchy Posted April 5, 2007 Report Posted April 5, 2007 Hi All My Dad has a 2002 1.9 TDi Auto with a bit of an intermitant smoking problem. From reading other threads i recon this smoke is caused by the Aux heater glow plug as the smoke is from the small exhaust by the N/S/R door. However my dad recently took it to the garage (not ford) for a service and in the service report it stated that there was oil leaking into the intercooler and the suspected cause was the turbo seals. The service guy the followed this with " thats gona be expensive it a bastard of a job". Now from what i understand if the turbo seals are leaking i would have expected to see smoke from the main exhaust. So my questions are. How can i check the turbo seals and intercooler and where are they located. If the turbo seals are shot is this somthing that can be done at home and has anyone done it. Is it possible that the smoke from the small exhaust is fom the turbo not the aux heater. If there is no obvious blue smoke from the main exhaust is it somthing that we need to worry about. Any help or advice would be much appreciated cos this car is costing a fortune and my dad is getting pretty fedup with it cos its just one thing after another. This weekends jobs are N/S/F top suspention mount and new front discs and pads, by tghe way does anyone know if i will need any special tools for these to jobs. Thanks. Joe. :-) Quote
tim-spam Posted April 5, 2007 Report Posted April 5, 2007 Smoke will be the heater booster - so long as it's not excessive, nothing to worry about. As regards the oil in the intercooler, this is most likely condensed oil mist from the crankcase breather - again, nothing to worry about and quite normal. If it was the turbo seals, there would be smoke from the exhaust and excessive oil consumption. I would guess that you've been subjected to the all too common "spanner monkey trying to scare the customer and drum up business" syndrome. Best avoid in future. For the other jobs, you are likely to need a 7mm allen bit - availble from halfords amongst others. This size is now becoming quite common. Quote
sketchy Posted April 5, 2007 Author Report Posted April 5, 2007 Thanks for your advice you said kinda what i thought and hoped it may be. The smoke from the small exhaust can be really bad in big clouds so i am going to attemt the glowplug change. I have found one one ebay for Quote
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