s3 8l launch in wet
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It's seriously detrimental to the engines health to give it death like that before it's properly up to temp anyway... If you carry on like that you can look forward to replacing (at least) your piston rings very soon!
The engine can still be at temp even though condensation is coming from the exhaust
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Think it might be this statement throwing people off the mark then... And that is the type of exhaust vapour I would expect from a exhaust that isn't properly heated through to be fair
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There you go...
Ok... my tuppence.... even when the car is up to temp there is still moisture in the exhaust and boxes etc... see this all the time on the dyno... have to run them a little longer under load before the runs to get heat into the exhaust to stop the condensation nuking the lambda probe that gets stuck in the tail pipes...
If the car had been idling or driven slowly to get to temp then chances are the exhaust will still have moisture in it... this could well be whats happening here
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Ok... my tuppence.... even when the car is up to temp there is still moisture in the exhaust and boxes etc... see this all the time on the dyno... have to run them a little longer under load before the runs to get heat into the exhaust to stop the condensation nuking the lambda probe that gets stuck in the tail pipes...
If the car had been idling or driven slowly to get to temp then chances are the exhaust will still have moisture in it... this could well be whats happening here
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just been to see my car running since having a lot of work done
it was as bad as yours fella!!
also spend a lot of time in traffic and most german cars seem bad for condensation
even new cars
it was as bad as yours fella!!
also spend a lot of time in traffic and most german cars seem bad for condensation
even new cars
What Tuffty says 
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Basically if you only do short journeys in your car then the exhaust system gets full of condensation...even pools of water...then when you re-start your car the next day the engine has to literally boil off all that water..hence you have white steam (not smoke).... it can probably take a good hours worth of motorway driving to clear it all out if it's bad.... if it's still doing it badly after this then you may be looking at a more serious underlying problem but you would notice this because you would be having to top up your radiator every day... the recent cold weather makes it looks worse
......Basically if you only do short journeys in your car then the exhaust system gets full of condensation...even pools of water...then when you re-start your car the next day the engine has to literally boil off all that water..hence you have white steam (not smoke).... it can probably take a good hours worth of motorway driving to clear it all out if it's bad.... if it's still doing it badly after this then you may be looking at a more serious underlying problem but you would notice this because you would be having to top up your radiator every day... the recent cold weather makes it looks worse
Mine steams like this all the time. My work is only a 2 mile drive and it just makes it up to temperature. Every couple of weeks or so i take it for a blast down some B roads and it takes around 45 mins to an hour to finally stop looking like a steam train 
. It doesn't lose any water so im not concerned.
. It doesn't lose any water so im not concerned.
