|
||
|
1st November 2019, 22:15 | #1 |
Newbie
ROVER 75 Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Whitchurch
Posts: 10
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
1.8t
My mgzt-t 1.8T smokes on start up from cold. Give it a short while and it stops smoking. What could be causing this? Is there a PCV valve on the k-series? It had a reckon head not long back.
|
2nd November 2019, 00:02 | #2 |
Gets stuck in
MG ZT Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Oxford
Posts: 847
Thanks: 124
Thanked 312 Times in 147 Posts
|
What colour is the smoke? Blue? It could be leaking valve stem seals.
|
2nd November 2019, 06:35 | #3 |
Loves to post
Rover 75 Saloon Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Newtown
Posts: 415
Thanks: 273
Thanked 95 Times in 65 Posts
|
My 1.8L sometimes does this, I think it is because the garage put 5-30 fully synthetic oil in at the last service, noticed that as it uses oil and I top up with 10-40 semi synthetic the problem subsides. Only smokes on start up on very hot days, no problem this time of year.
|
2nd November 2019, 08:51 | #4 |
Doesn't do things by halves
Rover 75 2.5 Connoisseur Auto (1999) Dealer launch model. Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Former Middlesex
Posts: 20,344
Thanks: 1,587
Thanked 3,749 Times in 3,181 Posts
|
5W30 is actually listed for the 1.8 non-turbo engine but for climates where temperatures fall below minus 30 degrees C. It's therefore not the best choice for the UK! You are wiser than the garage Martin for using 10W40. Maybe do your own oil change next time?
Simon
__________________
"Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble." Sir Henry Royce. |
|
|