Thread: Blue smoke

Call me slack but when I have changed the oil in my D4 3.0L I have not really measured the amount going in rather I have used the electronic measure thingy on the dash.

Anyhow last weekend I changed the oil and bugger me if the actual oil required to get the dash gauge to say full was almost 12 pints. When the good book says 10 max. Yeah all right, it should be in liters, however I have oil jugs that are measured in pints / quarts. So O.K. they are old!

Anyhow Maggsie is right on the money.

With the oil gauge showing full I can make like a destroyer laying a smoke screen (much exaggeration) which in reality it is the odd puff of blue smoke now and again depending on how fast and far down the loud peddle is depressed.

So my job for tomorrow is to remove a bit (2 pints) of the oil and run with the oil gauge showing at least 2 marks below full knowing that the sump is actually at the correct level.

It's amazing what you learn on this site!

Understood re oil level however ours last service was at dealer ,and it is showing 2 marks below full. When I rang them they said they would need car for at least 3 days as they most likely would need to get parts. What parts I wonder? A turbo?

Well an update for all. Car has been in dealers since 14th July. Still no closer to being fixed. Has had injectors tested, then replaced. Turbo replaced. That is all I have been told about. LR Technical are advising dealer to do further "testing" as they require. So 5 weeks without solution. Still smokes on cold start up. I suspect valve stem seal however they say this is unheard of on 3.0SDV6. Which makes me even more convinced that is problem, because if it has never happened before, it will....to me

5 weeks at the dealers? So what model did they give you to drive while they messed around with yr $100k car?

Take a guess....zilch...and now being told that blowing blue smoke on start up is "normal" for SDV6

Normal? My SDV6 don't blow blue smoke on start up. Seems I need a trip to the dealer to get it looked at.

Originally Posted by Meccles

Take a guess....zilch...and now being told that blowing blue smoke on start up is "normal" for SDV6

Must be one of the optional extras I didn't pay for - mine doesn't blow smoke.

Originally Posted by Ferret

Normal? My SDV6 don't blow blue smoke on start up. Seems I need a trip to the dealer to get it looked at.

This may help the OP...get 5-10 "non normal, non smoke blowing" vehicles to all book in and request a diagnostic!!! ;-)