angel1368

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Dont know if this is serious or not but was in a traffic jam before and noticed smoke coming out of the bonnet scoop and more out of the exhaust, i pulls away and drive for abit and when i stop again all is fine with the world and no smoke, gets home have a good look around engine bay and all is bone dry so very confused........ still love being a subaru owner though definitely hasnt took the shine off that

**jay**

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Rocker cover gasket, only takes a small drip to cause a lot of smoke, common problem on them.

angel1368

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please tell me and easy and cheap fix

RedScoob

If you're handy with a spanner you can do it yourself in a morning. Not a tough job, you just have to be immensely clean and careful.

angel1368

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blowing my tyres up is about as involved as i get mate, any way for me to check its defo these rocket cover gasket?

XDevil666

lol that made me chuckle, but nah dont worry mate i have had it before through the scoop.

im sure someone will jump on here and explain how to check but i think its a case of checking your down pipe etc, if there is any oil etc on the pipes etc then you would expect some to burn off

Shaunby 300

I had smoke coming out of scoop and from os front wheel arch when I stopped, turned out to be a front cam seal leaking and dripping onto exhaust. Seals are cheap but lot of labour, cam belt off to replace. Also oil had contaminated cam belt so had to replace that too.
I was lucky, fixed under warranty.

**jay**

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when the engine is cold run your fingers along the bottom on the rocker cover if its leaking you will be able too tell, it only takes a drop to smoke like hell, there easy enough to do, everything has too be mega clean when putting back together, if you dont feel upto the job a decent garage that deals with subaru will do it for you for around an hour or 2 labour.

angel1368

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cheers for all this info guys, so it wont cause any major problems just abit of embarrassment when stuck in traffic and jay you are right it did smoke quite abit lol i worried like fk

Turbotits

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Do you have wrapped headers?

ditchmyster

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Didn't you get a warranty.

angel1368

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risk of sounding soft what wrapped headers?

warranty yes but just thought if it was a small problem i dont mind sorting myself as in past ive had warranties not worth paper they are written on

scoobyross

"Do you have wrapped headers?"

This, deffo, they smoke especially after it rains, lol

Basically are your exhaust headers wrapped with heatwrap? If so it could be this that is smoking.

angel1368

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i shall have a check and a big thank you all for your help and comments, i cant wait till im upto speed on all things scoob

Carnut

What colour was the smoke? White is water, blue is oil, and black is a fuel issue. Plus if smoke is coming out of the exhaust then I can't see that being a drip at the front.

Mr.Two

Could be a bit of spilled coolant, that takes days to burn off

Possibly a split coolant pipe

Jeem

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I had a wee leak once at my power steering reservoir, it had run onto the top of the block an ran down behind the cam belt covers onto the exhaust manifold