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Excessive white smoke from Lexus (06) IS220d - any advice?

I had the same problem as most people do with a puff of white smoke after engine got a little warm and then it went away. I searched online and found out I need to remove the dpf, whenIi got this done, car was ok for 3 days and now excessive white smoke is coming out like never before, I cannot drive this car any more, got it checked and my garage said it could be faulty turbo as it had play in it. My question is how come after dpf removal the smoke has gone up 100 times? what should i do?

Asked on 21 January 2015 by fls

Answered by Honest John

It was ILLEGAL to remove the DPF. The DPF will have been containing the smoke from the fault, which is why there is now more smoke. This reads more like a cracked cylinder head or failed cylinder head gasket, which is quite common with early examples of the 2.2 chain cam Toyota diesel engine.

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