Has anyone noticed that their diesel is a bit smokey on motorways?

I thought it was normal but at night every now and then i can see smoke in other car headlights beahind me.

Last weekend my mate was driving behind me and i was doing about 40... I slowly went into the fast lane to gently overtake another car and I noticed the smoke again in my mates headlights. Seemed when turbo kicked in.

When we arrived at the destination my mate commnented on how smokey the car is and he spotted 4 puffs of smoke over 2 miles which seemd a bit more than a deisel normally emits.

Anyone know if there is a problem with these engines?

how old is your car and how many miles has it done.

2006 model

35,000 miles

cheers

mine is 06 37k .do not have any issues with smoke,what colour is the smoke.

Ditto - no smoke

How much Oil do you get through?

i would say half a dispstick in 6 months

its not a smoke screen but more random puffs... but more than a disel normally does.

if in doubt speak to your service manager,mine has never needed topping up with oil.

Mine has an apetite for oil - and it goes through phases. I would say it averages out to about 3 litres of oil over 12 months, and it goes through episodes of guzzling and then episods of calm....

I mentioned this to my dealer last year and thy eren't too worried, probably meaning that it is expected.

I've never seen any smoke haze in the mirror though - I definitely did get that with my Audi and Pug's.

The smoke can be one of 2 things -

Black Sooty stuff - i.e. diesel
Blue/White smoke - i.e. oil

Though the car has a "down turned exhaust pipe" it's not supposd to smoke as far as I know. It's part of the emissions control and the fact that the car has a Cat and particulate filter (or so I believe) you really shouldn't get any smoke....

PS - you do see some cars on the motorways puff up smoke when changing gears. I don't know whether it's valves guides or piston rings - but one of them causes it...

As dgman says - I'd take it in....

jamboo Ii remember reading the brochure at time of purchaseand there was reference to smoke reduction.by the way you spoke recently about leics not being able to fix your rear veiw mirror,they fixed mine before christmas.

I'm going to have to resolve not to read any more 220D threads, they're mostly very depressing....

You should try owning an IS200 with very poor fuel economy, increased congestion charges, and massive road tax hike.

I was told that the fix hadn't been made available freely by Lexus - something about it being under review...I'll keep a wobbly eye on it

Tango has an IS200 (I think still)

And...I'm used to diesels taking oil, so I haven't really worried too much about it....I half expected it to take quite a bit of oil until at least 20k. Prvious cars have taken some oil until 10-20K, then one litre per 10k, and up to 2 or 3 litres per 10k aftr 75000 miles...it was historically normal. However, these new diesels have partculate filters and Cat converters, so me thinks that any oil going into those bits could cause issues...

Yes Wozza...I've got an IS200 Sport but I don't drive it in London

well i reckon assuming your 250 does 28 avg and my 220d 40 avg on my 18k per year thats 800 quid better for me,sorry to here about the depression.

The 800 quid difference doesn't faze me at all...driving the IS250 auto is more than worth the mpg difference. I'm just commenting on the 220D posts...there's an awful lot of them and mainly whinging about some fault or another...makes depressing reading to me, just thankful I didn't feel the need to buy one to save a few quid on fuel....sorry, but that's got to be the only reason to buy one surely, unless of course it's a Company car/policy and there's no choice in the matter?

I notice lately that some people are useing words like negativity, whinging, taking sideswipes at etc about members commenting on their problems with their cars(mostly IS 220Ds). Are we only allowed to say good things about our cars here now and when did this new rule come into effect. We know we are whinging etc but who else is there for us to tell except people with the same problem who just may feel like commiserating with us.
My IS 220d has not used a drop of oil since I got it

all bought and paid for with my own money.