Just wondering if any others had this, or know of it or what it could be - >

Ok, so I start my car up for the first time of the day, starts first turn of the key, but needs some choke out to maintain idle revs, let warm up for about 5 minutes - or untill temp gauge comes up. . . all good. Drive around for a while, do me stuff, go to shops, etc. Stop and start the car a few times - no smoke , no worries. Come home, park her, switch her off. 3-4 hours later, I need to go out again, jump in and it takes alot longer to start, and tons of smoke seems to have come out of exhuast, untill it is running, then it's fine. My question is - should it smoke so much the second time it's run? How come it doesn't do it the first time? Also - it seems to get BACK to op. temp. real quick, even if it hasn't been running for 4 hours. . . any clues?

 

What color smoke?

 

If the smoke is black, you could be flooding the motor upon restart. Don't give the car any gas when you are starting it again after a fairly short time, it should catch on it's own. It should warm up quicker, even after four hours, there's still a fair amount of heat retained in the motor.

 

White, or slightly off white, like grey - white-ish ? Not black though. . .

 

Your Oil control rings are wearing out, The longer it sits the more oil leaks into the chamber. Dont worry about it till it starts to smoke all the time. I bet it smokes alittle at high engine rpm's also. The reason it gets up to temp. quicker is because the motor/coolant are still warm, it takes many hours to cool completly.