Unusual smoking/billowing - 2013 Panigale

Let me know if anyone has experienced this...

If the bike is fired up from cold then there is no smoke.

If you allow the bike to reach full temp and then try to fire it up there is no smoke.

If you fire the bike up from cold, allow it to idle for a minute, then shut it off for 15 mins it will throw a huge billow of whitish smoke on the next start.

Anyone else experience this?

The bike has 600 miles on it

Hello

You get that effect from almost every car or bike because in the first 30-60sec the revs are higher, the air/fuel mixture is richer (or how this is called in english, sorry) to get the cat faster to operating temp. So if you stop the engine in this process there are residues and if you fire it up again: Smoke.

dznutz said:

If you fire the bike up from cold, allow it to idle for a minute, then shut it off for 15 mins it will throw a huge billow of whitish smoke on the next start.

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Don't do that anymore.

bikenamenumber said:

Don't do that anymore.

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+1...Start it only if you intend on riding it...This start ..idle ..switch off does it no good at all..and if memory serves Ducati specifically advise against it....

^ I had no choice as I first noticed this during my first oil change... shocked me enough to try and reproduce the smoke

Biggest problem with doing this is that engine gets accumulation of moisture when started. If shut down then engine has extra moisture and will corrode some parts. If started best to come to operating temp and remain there for 30 minutes.

You're soaking the cat with fuel by shutting the bike off cold.

The dealer I bought my Ducati from loved to start the bike in the showroom for about 5 seconds before shutting it off. Just to show possible buyers how bada$$ the 1199 sounds.

When I went to pick it up. They ran it in there service department for a few minutes to clear that nonsense out. Completely filled their shop with smoke. I mentioned that they shouldn't do that in front of people that know nothing about engines (I'm a Mastertech so I know it's harmless as long the fuel deosn't nuke the cats.)

Dealers destroyed the cats on many Corvettes by starting them everyday so they would start easy on test drives. We couldn't figure out what was killing the cats, until we started keeping an eye on the fleet of vettes. They'd let them idle for a few minutes and shut them off. The cars did need a couple extra seconds of cranking if they sat for a while, big deal. I looked under the idleing car, the Cat was glowing so bright it reflected off the black pavement.

Also: when you flip over your lawnmower, on it's side to clean off the bottom of the deck.....it smokes when you restart it because some oil gets up there. Isn't the Ducati's forward cylinder at just about the same angle?

Don't sweat it. And quit starting your bike for just a couple seconds just to hear it. I know it's hard to resist.

My 1199 deosn't smoke anymore. Maybe a little condensation at startup.

dznutz said:

Let me know if anyone has experienced this...

If the bike is fired up from cold then there is no smoke.

If you allow the bike to reach full temp and then try to fire it up there is no smoke.

If you fire the bike up from cold, allow it to idle for a minute, then shut it off for 15 mins it will throw a huge billow of whitish smoke on the next start.

Anyone else experience this?

The bike has 600 miles on it

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This actually is a built-in homing device for Ducati Road-side Assistance.