White smoke

[DannyVTS]

Hi guys

My Saxo hasn't been started for about a month, and i started it today to prepare it for sale tomorrow and it has been billowing out white smoke for about 5 minutes, it didn't smoke at first until i revved it and now its like an iron!

Any idea why? Could a seal have gone? Coolant is fine!

Danny

[Larry Dickman]

Might just be condensation/water in the exhaust, give it a run & see what happens.

[DannyVTS]

Larry Dickman said:

Might just be condensation/water in the exhaust, give it a run & see what happens.

I would but im not insured.

It has quietened down somewhat now, but is still showing

[Si_steve]

99.9% sure its condensation in the exhaust mate.

[Zad]

What is the coolant header tank like? Any smell of hydrocarbons? Any emulsion showing?

[Larry Dickman]

Oh ok, in which case just let it run, rev it it up a bit & get it up to temperature. It probably wont stop all together but should get less & less. It's just water burning off the inside of the exhaust as it gets hot.

[DannyVTS]

I've just ran it upto temp.. still got smoke.

The smoke doesn't smell of any hydrocarbons mate.. if thats what i remember it is from school! Lol

It just feels like steam, i've just shut the car off now. Will restart it in an hour or so and see if it still happens?

Danny

[Zad]

DannyVTS said:

I've just ran it upto temp.. still got smoke.

The smoke doesn't smell of any hydrocarbons mate.. if thats what i remember it is from school! Lol

The. Header. Tank.

[HellDiver]

If the weather there is like it is here, then it'll be cold and humid. The steam is from the air.

[DannyVTS]

Zad said:

DannyVTS said:

I've just ran it upto temp.. still got smoke.

The smoke doesn't smell of any hydrocarbons mate.. if thats what i remember it is from school! Lol

The. Header. Tank.

I have no idea what that is.

But from googling, i don't think my car has one

[Mr MXT]

DannyVTS said:

Zad said:

DannyVTS said:

I've just ran it upto temp.. still got smoke.

The smoke doesn't smell of any hydrocarbons mate.. if thats what i remember it is from school! Lol

The. Header. Tank.

I have no idea what that is.

But from googling, i don't think my car has one

Facepalm.

I'm voting condensation and don't worry about it.

[Gallen]

DannyVTS said:

Zad said:

DannyVTS said:

I've just ran it upto temp.. still got smoke.

The smoke doesn't smell of any hydrocarbons mate.. if thats what i remember it is from school! Lol

The. Header. Tank.

I have no idea what that is.

But from googling, i don't think my car has one

Hi mate

I suspect it's condensation too.

RE: Header tank, I googled it for you. Looks like it's built on to the left side of the Radiator (Yellowy tranluscent plastic resevoir on side of radiator. Looks like it has a Black Plastic Cap).

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES open it when car is warm/hot or it could chuck high pressured scalding hot water over you which will take your skin off. Just be careful



Gallen

Edited by Gallen on Saturday 20th November 17:40

[UnluckyTimmeh]

Mate, fear not, I used to get loads of condensation steam from my VTR when I first fired it up. Used to last up to 10 miles or so driving. So sounds fairly normal.

Check under you oil cap (when engine is turned off) for any White/creamy mayonaise type substance and report back. I'm not insulting your intelegence when I ask if you know where your oil cap is, but if you don't, black cap on the top of the engine

HTH

Tim.

[PHmember]

UnluckyTimmeh said:

I'm not insulting your intelegence

That really is some stunning work there.

[B3njamin]

I got the same thing on my previous Citroen Saxo, except it *was* a head gasket that had blown.

Still, it ran for about a year that way, I just had to top the coolant up with water once a week.

I'd get it checked personally, if only for peace of mind.

[Gallen]

PHmember said:

UnluckyTimmeh said:

I'm not insulting your intelegence

That really is some stunning work there.

You laugh!!!! BUT....

We do work for major manufacturers.
Very in depth technical visualisations.

Anyway, I got one of my colleagues a cheap runabout as his car went kaput.
On asking him a couple of weeks later how the car was going, he said "yeah, great I'm realy pleased with it - but is there a quicker way to put the oil in?".

I said, "erm, what do you mean?" (and Im NOT making this up!).

He replied, "...well the hole for the dip-stick is only small and it takes ages to top it up!

100% true. How we laughed. LMAO!

Gallen

[DannyVTS]

Some cool stories here..

But i am not that thick, if you would have said coolant resovoir or similar then yeah i would have got it, header tank i have never heard before.

Thanks for the help though

[Tunku]

Zad said:

DannyVTS said:

I've just ran it upto temp.. still got smoke.

The smoke doesn't smell of any hydrocarbons mate.. if thats what i remember it is from school! Lol

The. Header. Tank.

The. Expansion. Tank.

[DannyVTS]

Tunku said:

Zad said:

DannyVTS said:

I've just ran it upto temp.. still got smoke.

The smoke doesn't smell of any hydrocarbons mate.. if thats what i remember it is from school! Lol

The. Header. Tank.

The. Expansion. Tank.

I would have got that too

[Tunku]

DannyVTS said:

Tunku said:

Zad said:

DannyVTS said:

I've just ran it upto temp.. still got smoke.

The smoke doesn't smell of any hydrocarbons mate.. if thats what i remember it is from school! Lol

The. Header. Tank.

The. Expansion. Tank.

I would have got that too

Not aimed at you Danny.