So last week I drove up to echuca (3 hours from my house) in my recently bought d22 nav, up untill this point i have not had a single problem, heaps of power, starts perfectly, the day after i got the car in my possetion, i changed all the filters (oil, fuel, air) and also drained and renewed the oil in the engine, the car has done just over 280,000 km,
back to the point, we went to echuca to purchase a party boat, flat, wide, and about 5m long, weighing in about 1 tonne with trailer, the only problem was that the axel in the trailer was further back on the trailer than it should have been causing more load on my ute, driving back home to melbourne the car couldnt handle 5th gear whatsoever, mind you it was a fairly windy day, but at this point plenty of power in 4th, anyway we stopped at a fuel station to top her up with diesel, the station was about 80 km from town.
got home all good after sitting on about 3100rpm for 3 hours on the way home, no overheating, no engine warning lights nothing, plenty of power once the boat was off, again in 4th plenty of kick once the turbo spooled around 2100rpm, 5th, not a drama seeing as the boat was off and it would sit comfortably in 5th where-ever i held it with again lots of pool once the turbo spooled.
the next day i started my car and noticed a slight flow of white smoke out the exhaust, but it was minimal, after about 5 minutes on idle, gave it a bit of a rev to about 3000rpm and a very thin cloud of smoke came out and was around the driveway (trying to put into perspective) anyway this was followed by a heavier flow of white smoke for about 30 seconds then it was back to a very thin leak of white smoke,
im really stressed as this is my first car and i have spoken to a few mechanics and done alot of research, ive been told a few things
1. Turbo seal possibly a turbo
2. Cracked piston rings
3. Cracked engine block
does anyone have any information whatsoever? it will be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advace, chompy
