Gday All,
Just picked up a first car for my daughter. The car has done 85K klms' and drives pretty well - it's in pretty good nick as far as I am concerned - but, as expected being 2nd hand, there are a few issues. I'm hoping I might be able to tinker away over time and resolve a few. I am asking for people's experience to help see if I can narrow down a few likely causes for the below:
- P0420 error code (converter efficiency low bank 1)
- Blows what looks like white smoke from exhaust and seems to smell like fuel (not thick or heavy smoke, but visible when you crouch down to look at exhaust outlet)
- Black "sooty like" coloring on exhaust pipe outlet
- After idling for a few minutes and give it a good rev, big plume of blue smoke from exhaust (no blue smoke while normal running and none at start up after the car has been sitting for a few days)
- Oil puddling/gathering in recesses in Turbo inlet hose, as well as in the ridges of the boost hoses in/out of intercooler
Wondering if there is a common theme here - running rich or leaking injector OR burning a bit of excess oil (or both?) will create the issue with the cat not being able to do its job propely and throw a code
If anyone can help shed any light and offer some experience or opinions I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
Tim
Just picked up a first car for my daughter. The car has done 85K klms' and drives pretty well - it's in pretty good nick as far as I am concerned - but, as expected being 2nd hand, there are a few issues. I'm hoping I might be able to tinker away over time and resolve a few. I am asking for people's experience to help see if I can narrow down a few likely causes for the below:
- P0420 error code (converter efficiency low bank 1)
- Blows what looks like white smoke from exhaust and seems to smell like fuel (not thick or heavy smoke, but visible when you crouch down to look at exhaust outlet)
- Black "sooty like" coloring on exhaust pipe outlet
- After idling for a few minutes and give it a good rev, big plume of blue smoke from exhaust (no blue smoke while normal running and none at start up after the car has been sitting for a few days)
- Oil puddling/gathering in recesses in Turbo inlet hose, as well as in the ridges of the boost hoses in/out of intercooler
Wondering if there is a common theme here - running rich or leaking injector OR burning a bit of excess oil (or both?) will create the issue with the cat not being able to do its job propely and throw a code
If anyone can help shed any light and offer some experience or opinions I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
Tim