biglsells
Active member
I was driving home after being on the road about an hour. Almost home and all the sudden power disappeared and tons of lighter colored smoke. I happened to be passing my brothers so I pulled in. The smoke is burning oil. When I mash the accelerator pedal in neutral to bring up the rpms smoke starts to billow out.
I live 2 miles away so I limped it home. It would get up to speed, 55mph, just took awhile and of course left a cloud behind me.
Some things I noticed, 1 no power AT ALL. 2, my turbo was always very whistley, you could hear it all the time as you accelerate. Now, nothing, not a sound coming from it.
Any ideas? Could the turbo have failed and if so, does that somehow dump tons of oil into the engine?
Car has 250k miles on it and otherwise has been perfect.
I live 2 miles away so I limped it home. It would get up to speed, 55mph, just took awhile and of course left a cloud behind me.
Some things I noticed, 1 no power AT ALL. 2, my turbo was always very whistley, you could hear it all the time as you accelerate. Now, nothing, not a sound coming from it.
Any ideas? Could the turbo have failed and if so, does that somehow dump tons of oil into the engine?
Car has 250k miles on it and otherwise has been perfect.