Smoking Like Cheech & Chong (Andy Schor)

[Schaible, David]

When my first avant got toward 300k miles I started to consume a little oil which my wrench said was the valve stem seals...no smoking though....although there were a couple of road trips where the car was smoking from the inside like C&C


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From: 200q20v-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:200q20v-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Derek Pulvino
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 3:46 PM
To: walbum at realalbumart.com; 200 q
Subject: RE: Smoking Like Cheech & Chong (Andy Schor)


Andy,

Do some searching for posts I added a couple of years back.  I had the same thing happen on my car, and found it only happened after sitting in traffic for long periods of time.  The smoke would go away after driving for a couple of minutes but it was really embarrassing.  Only happened after sitting and idling for upwards of 10-minutes or so.  In total, I dealt with it two or three times in about in the last year or two of my ownership.

As I also had issues with oil consumption (1qt/500-miles), I tried replacing my turbo with a lower mileage one from an S4.  While I found this replacement it didn't fix my oil consumption issue, I didn't keep the car for long enough after that to find out if it addressed that smoking issue.

My guesses were turbo, valve guides/stem seals, and rings...in order of probability.

Derek P


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> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:18:37 -0400
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> Yesterday after a weekend of vintage races and car shows here in Pittsburgh, I figured I was pushing my luck driving the '76 Lancia Scorpion around town.so I brought it home.  I headed off in the Audi towards family dinner at my sister-in-law's house.  After about 8-10 miles in congested traffic (someone had broken down blocking the road), I took the exit and was cruising through the town (~25 mph) then suddenly there was a huge plume of smoke (whiteish) that smelled like oil.  I thought it was wafting forward from the car behind me, but it was actually coming from my tailpipe.  I pulled over, checked oil pressure gauge (5 bar on throttle, 2 bar at idle), oil level registered OK on the dipsitck.  This came on suddenly, there was no unusual noise, I wasn't even accelerating enthusiastically.  I let it sit for a bit, then started it again, same condition.  I parked it there and this morning had the car flat bedded to the mechanic shop (who was still unpacking from the vintage races).  I doubt he'll even be able to look at it for a while.  
> 
> Anybody have BTDTs or thoughts on how much I should brace my self for the wallet vac?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy
> '91 Avant 297K miles
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