Exhaust smoke
Asked by GuruHBR4W Jul 16, 2019 at 02:11 AM about the 2011 MINI Cooper S Hatchback
Question type: Maintenance & Repair
I recently bought my 2011 Mini Cooper S and
It seems to have a problem with smoke
coming out the exhaust pipes. The smoke
occurs when the car has been on and not
moving (drive thrus are terrible). Sometimes
when I accelerate after being at a light it will
also smoke. I also have to put oil in my mini
often. Does anyone have this issue?
5 Answers
Either dirty injectors or maybe you have valve seals are worn. Get yourself a can of Seafoam and go from there. Seafoam will clean things out but not give you a valve seal job. Get it in the shop
U could have a compression test to see if valves or pistons are worn out. Pistons are typically more to fix. Curious...how many miles on car?
Your issue is a bad turbocharger. these cars are notorious for turbine seals going bad. as you sit there and idle your car is dripping oil into the catalytic converter slowly trying to burn it off once you accelerate you heat up the cats and burn off what has accumulated. Your constantly adding oil because your leaking it from your turbo into the Cat. I replace a turbo on these cars at least once every two weeks at my shop with the same issue. Do yourself a favor and spend the extra 150 on a brand new turbo rather then someones crappy rebuild. No one knows how to rebuild these correctly.
