Hey Guys got yet another question for ya. I recently brought in my 2001 a4 for a new timing belt and to fix the smoke coming from the engine it wound up costing me about 1600 bucks. But i was kool wit it cuz i got the car for a good price. I recently brought it back to the repair place because it was very very lightly smoking but he said its oil residue from the job and it will burn off. Is this true??

P.S you cant see the smoke unless you open up the hood. And you can smell burining oil but faintly.

 

well if there are new gaskits then they will smoke, just the break in process. if it continues then i would be concerned but some smoke is ok for a short time

 

yes they are new gaskets. the car does great otherwise runs great especially with the jersey snow last night i was driving home and it was crazy but the car was doing fine.

 

yup they are just breaking in. last week when i changed my manifold it was smoking so bad the guy next to me started honking and told me my car was on fire. smoke was coming out of the hood vent

 

haha

 

If the prob persists i will go back and have them fix it cuz i really hate the smell sometimes.