when i first start my car in the mornin it gives off a lot of white smoke for like3-5 seconds then dies down.but white smoke is still visible.its not alot its jus noticable, also from my exhuast pipe i can see droplets of water :-s also when my cars warmed up and i take it for a spin the white smoke is no longer there..but when i stop at lights then i can see the white smoke again.. is this normal? also my car dotn over heat. no loss of water. no white stuff under the oil cap.. no engien lights any ideas as what it could be??

does it smell oily? see a hint of blue to the smoke?

if you can it suggests the turbo may be on the way out, its common for them to start by smoking in traffic.

didnt you recently only just get this car on the road? i had smoke issues for almost 1000miles after my rebuild before i burnt off the excess residue and condensation.

either way its almost not worth worrying over, if the turbo is going to go there is nothing you can really do at this stage to stop it, maybe start saving for a replacement

Ry

Whitish vapor in the first few seconds after start-up is nothing to worry about it's condensation being blown out of the exhaust system and will quickly disperse. Normally if a turbo fails the smoke is blue/white and the intake side of the turbo is quite often full of oil large amounts of oil can be a sign of failing seals in the turbo, is it losing oil?

nah its not loosing any oil.. and the smokes jus white.not blue.

Hi
Is it losing any water ?

A cause can be valve stem oil seals. Fiat twin cams generally have a lovelly bath of oil in the cam shaft carrier upper head. Unlike the old Ford designs they don't use oil spray bars to lube the cams but Fiats just partially submerse them in oil.

These oil wells can be quit deep, depending on particular head design and oil can seep overnight pass the stem seals and gather in the cylinder/valve intakes. This quickly burns off at start-up.

Also some cars, possibly including Fiats, (the old Vauxhall 24V Sport, or what ever it was called) suffered from condensing crankcase oil fumes in the inlet manifold.