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General Car Related Discussion.To discuss anything that is related to cars and automotive technology that doesnt naturally fit into another forum catagory.
I was behind a 2008 model Focus tdci yesterday coming off a roundabout and suddenly there was a smoke screen so big and dense I could not see anything at all! It was pretty scary and I braked and so did the other cars behind me. It took a fair while for the smoke to clear and when it did the Focus was still moving but very slowly with its hazard lights on and then it stopped. I have never seen so much smoke from a car and the inside of my car smelt of smokey diesel.Any idea what could have caused it as I am not a diesel owner?
my money is on the turbo letting go - happened to me and there is a lot of smoke and scary when the engine runs on itself with no key in the ignition at max revs
Shity Peugeot engines. Ive heard there is a small piece of gauze in the turbo feed pipe that gets blocked which causes oil starvation to the turbo.
That is true, they got a filter in the banjo coupling, on the feed pipe. It use to be blocked. I have got 3 of this engines in at work, were the compressor wheel nut, are falling of and is in the airfilter hose. The oil pump strainer, are often blocked aswell