Audi TT car help
I was wondering if someone is able to help. I don’t have any experience with cars but I hope that someone can make a few suggestions.
I have an Audi TT which is just over five years old and is coming up to 50,000 miles on the clock.
The car was losing a lot of coolant and was burning up oil and the emission light finally came on in the car.
I took the car to a garage who said that it was a cylinder head gasket and that they would need to remove this and send it to get skimmed. The garage done the required work and have handed me the car back.
On the way home the emission light came back on so I took the car back to the garage who said they checked the compressions and everything looks ok and that they think it is possibly some gunk in the exhaust system and that I should take it for a long run.
I done as they suggested and went for a long drive but this did not fix the issue so the car went in again to get checked and they are now not sure what the problem is.
I have noticed when the car is moving I don’t seem to get any smoke but when the car is idling for about five minutes smoke starts to come out of the exhaust along with a burning smell. The smoke itself is dark in colour but not black. I thought that this is odd for the smoke to only appear when the car seems to be idling such as when stuck in traffic.
One of the mechanics said that the block could be cracked and that if this is the case I should get rid of it. How can this be checked?
As I said I don’t really know a lot about cars and any ideas would be a great help.
Regards,
Ross
I have an Audi TT which is just over five years old and is coming up to 50,000 miles on the clock.
The car was losing a lot of coolant and was burning up oil and the emission light finally came on in the car.
I took the car to a garage who said that it was a cylinder head gasket and that they would need to remove this and send it to get skimmed. The garage done the required work and have handed me the car back.
On the way home the emission light came back on so I took the car back to the garage who said they checked the compressions and everything looks ok and that they think it is possibly some gunk in the exhaust system and that I should take it for a long run.
I done as they suggested and went for a long drive but this did not fix the issue so the car went in again to get checked and they are now not sure what the problem is.
I have noticed when the car is moving I don’t seem to get any smoke but when the car is idling for about five minutes smoke starts to come out of the exhaust along with a burning smell. The smoke itself is dark in colour but not black. I thought that this is odd for the smoke to only appear when the car seems to be idling such as when stuck in traffic.
One of the mechanics said that the block could be cracked and that if this is the case I should get rid of it. How can this be checked?
As I said I don’t really know a lot about cars and any ideas would be a great help.
Regards,
Ross
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I took the car to another garage and he thinks that the smoke is oil burning up. He thinks that the problem could possibly be with a valve seal. I am going to take the car back to the garage on Monday.
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Found out that the turbo had gone on the car. Currently having this replaced as well.
Thanks for everyone's help.
Regards,
Ross
Thanks for everyone's help.
Regards,
Ross
Ross what determined that it was the turbo?There are very distinct signs of turbo failure that you would have noticed and the problems you were having are nothing to do with turbo.
A turbos function is to inject a greater amount of air to the intake of the car.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger
I strongly feel that your getting the run around.Where are you taking the car to?Have you researched the mechanic for complaints etc....?
A turbos function is to inject a greater amount of air to the intake of the car.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger
I strongly feel that your getting the run around.Where are you taking the car to?Have you researched the mechanic for complaints etc....?
FYI
Just ran across information in Wikipedia "Audi TT" subject that there have been class action lawsuits against Audi in the USA for premature engine belt failures. Regretably, they may be already settled. Might be worth checking on to see if you can recover some of your expense.
Just ran across information in Wikipedia "Audi TT" subject that there have been class action lawsuits against Audi in the USA for premature engine belt failures. Regretably, they may be already settled. Might be worth checking on to see if you can recover some of your expense.
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The garage thought that the new gasket they got possibly had a problem and replaced it. This unfortunately has not fixed the issue. The car now seems to reliably smoke when the car is idling after a minute or so. The smoke is white / grey. I can’t see any blue at all in the smoke.
I have been doing some reading / research on the internet and have noticed a few other people having problems with smoke when idling due to the turbo?
I have gone for a long drive today and it does not look like the coolant has gone down at all now but I will take it for another run tomorrow.
I did have to top the oil up today on the car which was surprising as I had an oil and filter change done a couple of weeks ago.
The other thing I read when trying to find out what the issue could be is someone mentioned removing the oil cap and feeling the pressure from the car engine. I done this and it felt like the same amount of pressure from the exhaust. I don’t know if this is normal or not. Or what this means.
I don’t know what the chances of the cylinder head gasket and the turbo going at the same time on the car?
The garage said to me yesterday that if what they have done does not resolve the issue that they think I have a cracked block and I should be looking at getting a new engine.