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White Smoke coming out Exaust pipes.
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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.
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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.
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Tom Greenleaf
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Jan 16, 2010, 4:15 PM
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Re: White Smoke coming out Exaust pipes.
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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,
T
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