smoke from exhaust !!

[Jitzz]

Hi All,

Just a quick question as I'm a little worried about the smoke coming from the passenger side rear exhuast pipe when the car is reading between 50-70 degrees on the temperature gauge after I first start it and begin to drive.

I've been using the car this summer as much as I can and only noticed this over the last week or so and should say that its white -ish smoke, not black or blue.

Also as background, I did encounter overheating problems on the way back from Chatsworth, due to a loose exapnsion cap - since resolved and bled through, I think.

Strangely enough the smoking stops once its up to temperature.....should I worry / fill my pants or re-mortgage

Any thoughts from would be greatly appreciated

Many thanks

Jitzz

[Jhonno]

Checked for oil in the water/water in the oil, compression etc..

[Jitzz]

Hi Jhonno,

Yes checked for oil in water and water in oil combo...nothing so far

Not checked for compression yet though

Thanks

Jitzz

[Jhonno]

Missed the "stops when up to temp".. Could just be burning off moisture in the exhaust.

[Vee8ight]

Do you lose any water?

[Jimm218]

Sounds like moisture in the exhaust to me. Its not uncommon with exhaust systems, particularly those with little in the way of silencers. Pretty sure my Cerb does it and my daily driver creates loads!

[Jitzz]

Hi

Thanks for all the advice, don't think it's loosing any water but will check tomorrow after a run out,

Hopefully it's just water in the exhaust !!

Thanks again

Jitzz

[ukkid35]

The only thing that would concern me is the difference between right and left banks. If you run your car stationary for any length of time you should be able to drown anything near the tail pipes.

[vroom]

One good cat and one bad cat?

My RHS spits like a chav on warm-up yet the LHS is far more sophisticated...

[Jitzz]

Just as an update to you all...

I did another bleed of the coolant yesterday as the temp started to climb when using the car yesterday, when bleeding the rad i noticed a fair bit of air coming through followed by coughing water/air after a while i got just water coming through - also did the water rails which resulted in similar

So, I think the system is bled now....and noticed that there was no smoke this morning, throughout the temp range

famous last words I guess !!.....the temp gauge read about 85 degrees throughout my 25 mile motorway journey this morning and only climbed to about 95 degrees when I came off and moved with slow moving traffic for about 10 mins.

hopefully, this may have cured it !?!?...might bleed it again jut to make sure no more air is left in

Thanks

Jitzz