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wlancaster505
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Jan 16, 2010, 2:40 PM

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White Smoke coming out Exaust pipes. Sign In

I have a 1994 Maxima it has 188,000 miles on it. I put some oil in today and white smoke started coming out after driving for a few minutes. I put in 10w-30 by accident and it say's it need's 5w-30. Is this why it's smoking? It smoked before then it stopped, now it's smoking so bad I cannot drive it. I have let it run and it seems to be getting alittle better. Any ideas please. I just had a baby and Im freaking out.


Tom Greenleaf
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Jan 16, 2010, 4:15 PM

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Re: White Smoke coming out Exaust pipes. Sign In

The oil weigh alone isn't the problem. Check that it's not wildly overfilled with oil and check you coolant level. Some white shows on cold days - lots as indicated suggests if you have your color right that it's burning coolant thru little doubt a bad head gasket.

White out exhaust is water - coolant,

Blue is oil burning,

Black is over fueled.

That's the rule of thumb.

You could pull plugs and find evidence or a multitude of other tests to verify why for this. The exhaust if your nose is good will smell if you are in fact burning coolant/antifreeze - a funky burning Gatorade smell - oil smells more like stinky exhaust fumes.

You might even see if this is a bad as you say drips coming out of tailpipe or some mufflers have weep holes of what I expect to be antifreeze/coolant,

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