Landyman99
Member Since: 14 Sep 2020
Location: South Yorkshire
Posts: 5
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Excessive blue/oil(?) smoke on startup |
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My 08 plate D3 manual is generating a cloud of thick blue smoke on starting and generally down on power, also occasionally reporting “Special Programmes Are Off”. Looking on this forum I think it might be a stuck turbo actuator and/or split intercooler hose(s), or is there anything else I should be looking at? Hoping it is something relatively simple and not a knackered turbocharger, wouldn’t be so bad if you could actually get at it! Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks, Nick.
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30th Dec 2020 9:30 pm |
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aja4x4
Member Since: 14 Apr 2019
Location: Westbury
Posts: 2462
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If its from cold your glow plugs could be on there way out
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30th Dec 2020 11:04 pm |
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Kviasen
Member Since: 24 Dec 2020
Location: Norway
Posts: 107
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Split turbo hose is a good start but as suggested check the glow plugs since they fail after a few years.
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30th Dec 2020 11:35 pm |
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jezmoore
Member Since: 27 Dec 2011
Location: newcastle under lyme
Posts: 20
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Mine frequently throws up the "Special programmes off" warning when starting from cold,had it checked and culprit was low battery,only did it during winter when not started for a few days
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31st Dec 2020 1:13 am |
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