Smoke from exhaust

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    Bella Greenie N00B Member

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    I just bought a 2007 speed3 a couple weeks ago and I noticed that it'll puff out a pretty big cloud of smoke (white with a blue hue) occasionally when the car is warmed up fully and I stop at a light. The person that had the car before me cut the exhaust off to about where the backseats are, could that have anything to do with it?
     
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    Did you fix the exhaust and have it properly exit out the rear of the vehicle?

    It could be a few things. Valve stem seals, valve cover gasket leaking oil into the spark plug tubes, maybe the turbo is leaking oil internally.
     
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    puff of blue is oil being burned
     
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