Last week the engine started to smoke whilst idle. This was

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Hi Eliza I hope you are well. I’m sorry to hear you are experiencing these issues and I totally understand how frustrating this is. Can you confirm there has been no smoke since?

Ok so the first step here is to get the car connected to a diagnostic scan tool to see what’s triggering the warnings.

most garages will have a diagnostic tool to read faults from the system. I wouldn’t drive any further than necessary because of the smoke this would be concerning