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Old 09-06-2007, 11:07 PM
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It happens all the time but it happens more often if you run your car for a very short period of time. For example, if you back your car out of the garage to wash it and then drive it back in you will more often then not get a big puff of white smoke when you start it the next morning.

It scared the c**p out of me the first time it happened with my Boxster. I'm used to it now.

It happens with most boxer (flat horizontally opposed) engines. BMW motorcycle "R" engines do the same thing . . . . especially if you park the bike on the side stand.

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