I’m having quite a large issue with a d2 that I recently bought. The issue is 90% of the time it will turn over and sit and idle but chuck out A LOT of white smoke. you can drive it but after a few metres if you don’t give it enough of a run up it will cut straight out. It also manages to chuck out an unbelievable amount of oil. It also requires a bump start quite a bit. My best guess is that there’s an issue with the injector looms or something around that area, I thought of the head gasket mainly because of the white smoke but it doesn’t quite line up (my previous d2 blew its head gasket and it was nothing like this). I know my best bet is going to be replace the engine but I’m also quite curious if anyone knows what it could be? I’d love to be able to fix it but I think it’s too far gone from that. Any ideas of the problem and any suggestions would be great.

TDi or petrol Grace?

White smoke is coolant in the engine, so what does the filler cap look like? Any ‘milkshake’? Or the dipstick looking ‘odd’, ie anything more than clean dark oil on it?

I know you said it wasn’t like your D2 blowing it’s headgasket, but this could be a smaller, more continuous leak into the combustion chamber.

Have you done a diagnostic?
Are you losing a lot of coolant?
Chucking out a lot of oil implies HG or rings or worn bores.
Have you done a compression or leak down test?