VW Bora 1.9 tdi (blue smoke)

[salford5ive]

HELP my car is smoking heavily It started a two week ago when my mum put 5l oil into the car once the oil light came on. so i dropped the oil today added a new filter and also a new air filter and topped up with 4.5l oil. the car is still smoking blue smoke can anybody help me please. the car has 186k on the clock

[cptsideways]

Probably turbo on its way out, though worth checking the breather filters if its been overfiled


Does the smoking stop when you take the filler cap off the engine?

[rotarymazda]

salford5ive said:

HELP my car is smoking heavily It started a two week ago when my mum put 5l oil into the car once the oil light came on. so i dropped the oil today added a new filter and also a new air filter and topped up with 4.5l oil. the car is still smoking blue smoke can anybody help me please. the car has 186k on the clock

I don't know anything about diesels but I would have thought that there is now a lot of oil in places where it isn't supposed to be (e.g. intake/intercooler) and that is what you are now burning off.

[ManOpener]

When your mum put 5L of oil in it, did she overfill it? If so, it's probably oil residue from this being burnt. An oil change won't remedy this as it'll be in all sorts of places, such as the inlet manifold.
If not, my guess would be turbo oil seals.