smoke on start up

[Dozer1]

I have a 2001 996 with 40,000 miles. It is under the C.P.O. warranty. In the last 15 months I have had 6 RMS repairs. When I last checked it was not leaking. Now I have a pretty large puff of blue (oil) smoke upon start up. The dealer says they will replace the oil/ air seperator, and this should solve the smoking problem. Is this true, or are they blowing smoke up my tailpipe? I called PCNA and asked for a new motor, and I guess thi is their response.

I have a 2001 996 with 40,000 miles. It is under the C.P.O. warranty. In the last 15 months I have had 6 RMS repairs. When I last checked it was not leaking. Now I have a pretty large puff of blue (oil) smoke upon start up. The dealer says they will replace the oil/ air seperator, and this should solve the smoking problem. Is this true, or are they blowing smoke up my tailpipe? I called PCNA and asked for a new motor, and I guess thi is their response.

I forgot to mention this is a C2 with 6 speed manual trans bought w/ 34000 miles used

[1999Porsche911]

I have a 2001 996 with 40,000 miles. It is under the C.P.O. warranty. In the last 15 months I have had 6 RMS repairs. When I last checked it was not leaking. Now I have a pretty large puff of blue (oil) smoke upon start up. The dealer says they will replace the oil/ air seperator, and this should solve the smoking problem. Is this true, or are they blowing smoke up my tailpipe? I called PCNA and asked for a new motor, and I guess thi is their response.

I have a 2001 996 with 40,000 miles. It is under the C.P.O. warranty. In the last 15 months I have had 6 RMS repairs. When I last checked it was not leaking. Now I have a pretty large puff of blue (oil) smoke upon start up. The dealer says they will replace the oil/ air seperator, and this should solve the smoking problem. Is this true, or are they blowing smoke up my tailpipe? I called PCNA and asked for a new motor, and I guess thi is their response.

I forgot to mention this is a C2 with 6 speed manual trans bought w/ 34000 miles used

Could be. The easiest way to see if its the oil seperator is to temporarily disconnect the bypass tube coming from the seperator at the throttlebody. Seal the opening in the throttle body where the hose was connected to prevent vacuum leak. Now, there is no way oil can get from the seperator into the intake system and out the exhaust. Any excess oil from the seperator (which should be no more than fumes) will now come out the hose that was connected to the throttlebody. Your car should run normal. Start your car, let it run for a few minutes and shut down. If you still have smoke when you start the car after it has sat for several hours, your problem is not the seperator.

[Dozer1]

I have a 2001 996 with 40,000 miles. It is under the C.P.O. warranty. In the last 15 months I have had 6 RMS repairs. When I last checked it was not leaking. Now I have a pretty large puff of blue (oil) smoke upon start up. The dealer says they will replace the oil/ air seperator, and this should solve the smoking problem. Is this true, or are they blowing smoke up my tailpipe? I called PCNA and asked for a new motor, and I guess thi is their response.

I have a 2001 996 with 40,000 miles. It is under the C.P.O. warranty. In the last 15 months I have had 6 RMS repairs. When I last checked it was not leaking. Now I have a pretty large puff of blue (oil) smoke upon start up. The dealer says they will replace the oil/ air seperator, and this should solve the smoking problem. Is this true, or are they blowing smoke up my tailpipe? I called PCNA and asked for a new motor, and I guess thi is their response.

I forgot to mention this is a C2 with 6 speed manual trans bought w/ 34000 miles used

Could be. The easiest way to see if its the oil seperator is to temporarily disconnect the bypass tube coming from the seperator at the throttlebody. Seal the opening in the throttle body where the hose was connected to prevent vacuum leak. Now, there is no way oil can get from the seperator into the intake system and out the exhaust. Any excess oil from the seperator (which should be no more than fumes) will now come out the hose that was connected to the throttlebody. Your car should run normal. Start your car, let it run for a few minutes and shut down. If you still have smoke when you start the car after it has sat for several hours, your problem is not the seperator.

The dealer replaced the seperator, and it solved the problem. PCNA called me and apologized for my nightmare experience with the dealership, but no new motor.

[911turboz]

I also have this problem. This is my 9th 911 and fully aware of the normal startup smoke that 911's can bless us all with. My 02 996 cab literally bellows white/ grayish smoke at startup when it is colder than 55 degrees outside and I parked the car "hot" after driving aggressively with high RPM downshifts. It smokes so bad that you literally cannot see across my driveway when you first fire it up. Local Porsche dealer suggested lower test fuel during the colder months which has made it better but by no means solved my problem. I do not get this all the time but it is extremely excessive. Local Porsche dealer hooked up computer and there are no fault codes being produced. Anyone have any ideas of what to do?

[cdsvenom]

I just started getting the bad smoke on startup also. Mine is an 02 996 with 48k miles.

What should I do????

Thanks.