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I have recently run in to trouble with my Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 2013. I broke down the other day after a huge cloud of white smoke out the exhaust followed by a severe loss of power. The AA came had a look and said that the smoke I saw was the oil burning out, this must have been all of it as I topped it up 2-3 weeks prior. They towed me to a garage and they tried replacing the ignition coil and the spark plugs as they believed this to be the solution, it wasn't as the car still had no power and went through the oil again. The mechanics said they didn't know what could be causing it and suggested a new engine to be the solution.

So my question is has anyone come across this sort of issue before and/or does anyone know what the issue/resolution would be?

MrCodeWeaver
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Daniel Humberstone
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If it is burning it's oil, the oil is getting somewhere it shouldn't do - and changing the plugs and coil will make no difference to that!

As the oil smoke is coming out of the exhaust, that suggests to me that the oil is getting into the cylinders - the most likely causes for this are a blown headgasket, failed valve stem seals, or failed piston rings. A compression test should tell you which cylinders have failed, but it's probably an engine-apart job to fix it...

Nick C
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Since it's a 1.2 I'm betting it's petrol, so you don't have some of the issues that diesels suffer from.

White smoke is often water. Grey/black smoke will be oil. Either way, something is getting into the combustion chambers which really shouldn't be there. My money is on the head gasket, because that can fail in a fairly on/off kind of way, but as other posts have said, there are other options.

Either way, you want to find a better garage!

Graham
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it's not the oil my friend. I had the same problem with my diesel 2008 fiesta. A huge white smoke comes from the exhaust and when you see it first, you think that the car is burning!

The problem is with the gas injector in the engine. It costs about 400$ in Turkey, but in your region it depends.

You should immediately bring it to the service otherwise your engines pistons may be damaged and it will cost much more than the injector problem.

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