smokey exhaust

[martin25]

hi peeps,i brought a fto,of a friend on tuesday as it was sat in his drive for bout 2 years doing nothing,its a mivic 2.0 v6 auto,it runs great,starts first time,everything works appart from speedo and rev counter but im sorting that out.but the problem im woried about is its quite smokey(cloudy smoke) out the back,and water is coming out the exhaust its like black sutty water,ive checked the oil its not creamy or nothing,does not overheat,does it sound like the gasket gone?

and where would you top the water up ive noticed there is 2 water thingys,one by the engine block with metal cap and other in corner called coolant plastic cap?sorry im knew to thse cars,better to be safe than sorry,why is there 2thanks martin.

[Dragonheart]

Hmm, where does it say coolant on the plastic cap? I cant remember, unless it the one for the windscreen washer fluid you're referring to??

The one beside my filter in the picture below?



The only other refill points I can think of are brake fluid, power steering fluid, and obviousy engine and gearbox oil.

[martin25]

yeh it says colant its in the right corner of you pic?with the white cap on mate,so the one with the metal cap is the radiator water ect,and need to be filled up to top?thanks martin

[steelroe]

Sound to me like the exhaust is full of water due to condensation. If it was idle far a very long time I would expect this.

[Muad_dib77]

The this right side of the picture..towards the cabin of the car you have the coolant return...

towards the front is the windscreen washer reservoir.. don't mix the two up!

As far as I remember the the coolant filling point is sitting just to the right of the engine, and has a metal cap..(correct me if I'm wrong here guys..) in any case there should be a wee sticker on top of it.


with regards to the smoke... just make sure your oil level is correct and it doesn't look gunky..
I wouldn't worry about the condensation - what you might want to do though is get the exhaust up to proper temperature (Long drive at high revs) that will evaporate any water you have sitting in the exhaust - and it's likely to solve your "issue"... -I think it's just steam..

[Kace]

The this right side of the picture..towards the cabin of the car you have the coolant return...

towards the front is the windscreen washer reservoir.. don't mix the two up!

As far as I remember the the coolant filling point is sitting just to the right of the engine, and has a metal cap..(correct me if I'm wrong here guys..) in any case there should be a wee sticker on top of it.

Correct - coolant filling is the metal cap on top rhs of engine block as you look at image.

Do NOT fill coolant into the plastic cap on top right hand corner of engine bay- this is the coolant overflow.