kwalsh24
Veteran Member
First off, I'm writing this post with a ton of frustration, sorry if it seems a little all over the place. I did a quick search and didn't quite find what I'm looking for so going to post.
A brief history on the vehicle, it's not much as I don't know the history, I picked it up as a salvage rebuild project that has 184000km on it. The vehicle had been sitting for a while. The car had damage to the passengers side, the rad, condenser and intercooler was replaced from a parts vehicle. However the engine at idle has white smoke that has a light burning oil smell to it. When driving the smoke is the same as idle if not a bit worse. There's no CEL and the engine will rev to 5000\5200rpm in neutral no issue. There's no raw oil coming from the tail pipe.
There seems to be power, seeing how I'm not use to the 1.9PD I'm not sure if there's power loss or not. It seems fairly close to my brothers but his is auto and this is a 5spd. I can hear the turbo kick in between 1500rpm & 2000rpm range when accelerating, with no odd noises. The only odd noise I have is when I go to shift gears, I can hear a slight metal against metal grind, almost like the sound a rust brake rotors makes.
This project was to be a cheap rebuild... Which I'm now totally regretting.
I do have VCDS and can run various tests, however the vehicle is unlicensed so it's not always easy to do the tests.
Could this be simply a vehicle the needs to be driven? I did check the oil and it's right at if not a little over full.
A brief history on the vehicle, it's not much as I don't know the history, I picked it up as a salvage rebuild project that has 184000km on it. The vehicle had been sitting for a while. The car had damage to the passengers side, the rad, condenser and intercooler was replaced from a parts vehicle. However the engine at idle has white smoke that has a light burning oil smell to it. When driving the smoke is the same as idle if not a bit worse. There's no CEL and the engine will rev to 5000\5200rpm in neutral no issue. There's no raw oil coming from the tail pipe.
There seems to be power, seeing how I'm not use to the 1.9PD I'm not sure if there's power loss or not. It seems fairly close to my brothers but his is auto and this is a 5spd. I can hear the turbo kick in between 1500rpm & 2000rpm range when accelerating, with no odd noises. The only odd noise I have is when I go to shift gears, I can hear a slight metal against metal grind, almost like the sound a rust brake rotors makes.
This project was to be a cheap rebuild... Which I'm now totally regretting.
I do have VCDS and can run various tests, however the vehicle is unlicensed so it's not always easy to do the tests.
Could this be simply a vehicle the needs to be driven? I did check the oil and it's right at if not a little over full.
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