Hi everyone,
My partner drives a fiat bravo t-jet 150 sport and have owned it for the best part of 7 years. It's currently sitting at 115k.
The problem;
When holding the car back on engine braking down a hill or deaccelerating, so once stopped ready to pull off, the car will stutter, hesitate and boost dumping then a big plume of blue smoke will cloud the road like as if the car is choked, then the car drives fine till the next time.
Also noticed that there is a lot of oil consumption.
Couple years ago the car starting missing and found the spark in cylinder 4 was dead, so replaced the plugs and within a couple months cylinder 4 spark plug went dead again which was odd. Replaced again and hasn't died since and still running fine.
Diagnosing the problem (what I've done so far);
Start the car from cold no smoke runs sweet, start the car from hot no smoke runs sweet,
Changed the oil separator valve (black box) as from what I've read seemed suspicious,
Oil change.
The turbocharger (VL36) boosts up strong no smoke.
Ran a diagnostics and no faults.
From what I've researched;
If the pistons rings are gone it will smoke all the time,
If the valve oil seals are gone it will smoke of start up,
Turbo seals gone possibly smokes all the time?
If I'm wrong then please correct me, this just seems a mystery to me as the car starts and drives smoothly but has this issue with random stutters and plumimg blue smoke with oil consumption.
Any help will be very much appreciated.
My partner drives a fiat bravo t-jet 150 sport and have owned it for the best part of 7 years. It's currently sitting at 115k.
The problem;
When holding the car back on engine braking down a hill or deaccelerating, so once stopped ready to pull off, the car will stutter, hesitate and boost dumping then a big plume of blue smoke will cloud the road like as if the car is choked, then the car drives fine till the next time.
Also noticed that there is a lot of oil consumption.
Couple years ago the car starting missing and found the spark in cylinder 4 was dead, so replaced the plugs and within a couple months cylinder 4 spark plug went dead again which was odd. Replaced again and hasn't died since and still running fine.
Diagnosing the problem (what I've done so far);
Start the car from cold no smoke runs sweet, start the car from hot no smoke runs sweet,
Changed the oil separator valve (black box) as from what I've read seemed suspicious,
Oil change.
The turbocharger (VL36) boosts up strong no smoke.
Ran a diagnostics and no faults.
From what I've researched;
If the pistons rings are gone it will smoke all the time,
If the valve oil seals are gone it will smoke of start up,
Turbo seals gone possibly smokes all the time?
If I'm wrong then please correct me, this just seems a mystery to me as the car starts and drives smoothly but has this issue with random stutters and plumimg blue smoke with oil consumption.
Any help will be very much appreciated.