MGMcAnick |
06-19-2009 10:15 PM |
Boxster smokes like a pile of tires afire
I have been offered an '01 Boxster S that has a definite smoking problem. The price is low enough that I could put a used engine into it and still own it cheap. I have never seen so much oil smoke from an exhaust. When I test drove it the other day, cars behind me were stopping to wait for the smoke to clear so they could see the roadway, especially after slowing down and then accelerating after a turn. It is definitely NOT steam like from a head gasket. It is oil smoke.
Is there a good, hopefully cheap, reason for a Boxster engine to smoke this much? There is no blowby visible when I remove the oil filler cap. There is no miss or hesitation in the engine. It runs very well.
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