White Smoke

[bex1962]

Hi, ive had my Avensis T180 2.2 since April 07 .Ive had a lot of problems with clouds of white smoke from the exhaust this is an intermittent fault but does fill the motorway behind with a cloud.Been into garage several times ,no fault found approx 84K on clock ,but has been ongoing since about 50K.Best thing I did was take exstended warranty.

It has had a egr valve , and a cat converter under warranty.I get poor fuel MPG average 35MPG.Got to the stage now where I am going to write to Toyota uk and sue them '' car not fit for purpose''

Any one else had these problems ?

[Parts-King]

Is it smoke or steam?

My gut feeling is the head gasket has gone. Do you lose a small amount of coolant on a regualar basis?

On what basis would you be writing to Toyota at 84K miles? You need to know what the fault is before saying the car is not fit for purpose, you have a very long way to go before you could even think of doing that!

Kingo

[OldSkoO1]

Let me know how u get on.

I also have large amounts of white smoke. It cant be the EGR as i cleaned that too. Only 30k here.

[jamesholden]

The 2.2's are known for head-gasket faults and their pretty troublesome in the Lexus IS220D as well.

[Hati]

One thing could be the regeneration process of the DPF. If the tubes to the sensor are filled with crap, it regenerates the DPF very often.