White smoke WOT/excessively burning oil thought the worst - fixed for $22

[beckola]

A couple months ago I bought 07 A4 66k clean Carfax. Have been happy but was surprised when at WOT it started billowing white smoke. Also was burning a quart of oil every 500 or so miles. This is my 3rd B7 in 5 years so I know the car and hadn't experienced this before. Of course thought the worse.. turbo. Then PVC, intake manifold, Cam, cam follower... etc. Since I didn't have any of the other symptoms that usually accompany the before mentioned issues, and since I don't have a mechanic who I trust, I kept searching as I wanted to know exactly what the problem was before I brought it to anyone.

Then yesterday I found a site of a turbo refurbisher who had put together this great chart. Each column had a symptom, each row was the fix. The columns were items such as white smoke, black smoke, excessive oil consumption, dentist drill sounds, etc.

Well I went to the row where the white smoke and excessive oil were checked and the solution was..... wait for it.... change air filter.

I went to Autozone and bought filter for $22. Cleaned out air system of some leaves, etc. cleaned pre-filter, etc. Changed filter. Problem gone.


link http://www.jhdiesel.com/failurechart.htm
I get the shakes thinking what a field day the stealership would have had with this one.

Fun fact - When I pulled the Percolator filter out of box, I felt good because it had 'made in Germany' printed on it. When I opened the filter box and saw 'made in Austria' next to the imprinted 4 rings on the oem filter, I had to smile.

[jma57]

Link for the site, please.

[illegitimus]

Link for the site, please.

x2

[makav3li]

good tp hear man, glad it was so cheap and simple

[b7a4GT30]

x3 thats a great find once we can see the site!!

[audivoodoo]

X4 for the site please. Glad to hear your car is good after which an easy fix

[BigRob]

thanks i bought my b7 with 60k miles on it and ive had to put 1.5L of oil in it in 4,000 miles its burning like crazy. Im gonna replace my airfilter this weekend and hope it works.

[Slovak84]

x5 GIVE US THE SITE.... lol

[B72.0T]

LINK!
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[jimrobbington]

Link NOW or BAN!

[beckola]

Sorry for the delay all.... here's the link.

http://www.jhdiesel.com/failurechart.htm

[beckola]

OK.... We all OK now??????? Sorry all.... I didn't know anyone had written and asked for the link. I was kind of just relaying my fix and was so caught up in that, I didn't even think about the fact that others would want the full chart... duh.. of course you would.

So anyway, here's a question. I know see I got an email when some of you asked for the link or commented. But that was only to my personal email account. When I logged on to audizine, my message indicator said, 0 messages.... Because I didn't see any messages on my audizine account, I guess I just thought the emails were mass emails and never opened them.

MY question is, when posting in the forum, is there a way to have comments show up in your audizine message list.

Thanks.

[Insane_Audi]

very vague as far as symptoms go, any mechanic could tell you those things

[Insane_Audi]

OK.... We all OK now??????? Sorry all.... I didn't know anyone had written and asked for the link. I was kind of just relaying my fix and was so caught up in that, I didn't even think about the fact that others would want the full chart... duh.. of course you would.

So anyway, here's a question. I know see I got an email when some of you asked for the link or commented. But that was only to my personal email account. When I logged on to audizine, my message indicator said, 0 messages.... Because I didn't see any messages on my audizine account, I guess I just thought the emails were mass emails and never opened them.

MY question is, when posting in the forum, is there a way to have comments show up in your audizine message list.

Thanks.

like facebook?...you message box would full like crazy

[beckola]

Thanks for the info.

As far a vague goes..... that was the whole point of my post. If I would have have taken it to the wrong mechanic, or the dealer... I'd say there would be a 20% chance I'd walk only replacing air filter and cleaning intake. Which in itself would have been $150 at the dealer.

[Mr. Merk]

How dirty was it?