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Old Dec 29, 2004 | 02:41 PM
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I've noticead that the last couple of times when starting up the engine from cold (my97 uk turbo, 80k miles) there has been a puff of blue-grey smoke. I've been doing some research here and found that one possible cause is overfilling the oil. So I checked this and it is just above the F on the stick. The oil was changed when I bought the car. Should I remove some?

I've also seen some post where other people have had blue smoke on start up and a variety of other explanations were voiced, including that it was normal on a turbo'd car. Any opinions on this?

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Old Dec 30, 2004 | 04:18 PM
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mine did it took it to subaru and it had melted no2 piston
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You're scaring me now! Weren't there any other symptoms in addition to the smoke?
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