I had an iteresting drive into work this morning in the S1, i had to use it as i was at the Kent RSOC meeting last night and it would have woken to many people up to change cars around late last night.

Anyway, driving along nice steady 85 mph, pull out to overtake, gently start accelerating and notice a small amount of smoke out of the back, thought hmmm so back off slightly, then looked behind, all you could see was a smoke screen covered the road completely, carried on going and all returned to normal, oil pressure fine, temperatures normal etc..

pulled away at a junction and again loads of smoke, OK i thought perhaps the turbo has blown, i have had this before so thought as long as i keep it off boost as much as possible and keep an eye on my oil pressure things will be fine, i could get it to work, then organise a way to get it home.

Got to a small incline and yet more smoke, and was running on three cylinders, and oil pressure was all over the place, looked one second 90, looked again 5 finally made it to work after creating so many smoke screens its unreal, i am sure the people of Cambridge loved me this morning. parked up, on idle it revs to 3500, smokes heavilly, rattles like fook. popped the bonnet oil every fooking where

What you all reckon, i think i have melted a piston, will now more once i finish work and whip the plugs out. It was going to happen the moment i put the car back together. I dont mind, its just that i have driven it harder for longer so many times before, christ i went all the way to Kent and southend in it, doing a steady 95 all the way, and over taking and having a little play occasionally. Seems odd that it done it whilst driving so slowly, could be a fault with a sensor i suppose.

That will be a new engine now then. This time the engine will be my final spec engine, so its not a bad thing that its gone pop.

edited to add that the car is on Cossie Managment, changed to this becaus ei didnt want to melt my engine lol