I've had my 1.7cdti over 3 years now and never encountered this problem up to this morning, but white smoke was being omitted from my exhaust (not at high revs) which the most awful burning smell similar to the DPF burning-off smell. I stopped the car with the engine running and it carried on smoking for a minute before I decided to continue my journey to Bradford and back to which it didn't happen again. Prior to the exhaust smoking, the engine had been running for around 20-25 minutes. Any sug

I have had my car for a few months now and have always complained about the engine being noisy, but after having taken it to a local garage and main dealer both telling me there is nothing wrong i have just tried to accept the way it is. I have now done a few thousand miles and it is still the way it has always been. This morning however, i started the car from cold and all seemed ok, i went down the road and under load at low revs the car seemed noisier than usual, quite knocky and noticed the

Hi all,

Last week while it was raining a lot of steam was coming up from the radiator, so I took it back to the independent I bought it from as it's still under warranty.

They said they couldn't find anything wrong, they did a 2 hour compression test and all came back fine. No coolant loss. And it's not let out steam since.

However a new problem has arose...

When the engine is warm, I get a lot of white smoke out the back that smells awful, a bit like burnt rubber or perhaps coolant.

What c