Smoke from exhaust - is this normal?
Under full acceleration, it is normal to see smoke from the exhaust? A few weeks back I accelerated from a slow roll at full throttle to try and rid myself of a tailgater. When I looked in the rearview, I noticed it belched out quite a bit of smoke from the exhaust.
My old carburated cars do this, but I was surprised to see it from an A3. The car does burn oil (about a quart per oil change) but according to the manual this is normal.
My WRX, which of course is also turbocharged does not do this so I'm not sure if this is a precursor to something worse.
Thanks for any thoughts.
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