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Question: white engine smoke

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Leonh, Sparks, NV, June 16, 2011, 14:56

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The car has a little over 100,000 miles and white smoke is coming from the exhaust. NO other sounds or lights coming on the dash. Any idea what the problem is and how much to repair?

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  mastertech6371 June 16, 2011, 15:21
  

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  white smoke indicates burning coolant from overheating.
  the head has to come off and find the extent of the damage. a basic estimate would be around 500 but exspect to go up quickly as the results come in on parts required.

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  chinasinoy June 16, 2011, 23:46
  

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  White smoke or semi white can be produced in several ways. One way is oil this is normally a whitish blue to blue smoke and has the apparent smell of oil being burned. Next could be antifreeze when it is being burned it has a sweet type of smell and tends to dissipate in the air rather quickly. Next is automatic transmission fluid which is normally found on automatic transmissions and its normally drawn into an engine thru a vacuum line via a defective transmission modulator valve or some other defective part. Transmission fluid is very apparent and billows out so bad that you can't see anything behind you. Last but not least another type of smoke that is not white but black is the presents of to much gas/fuel being burned in the engine. Hope This Helps.

  PS the one good thing about transmission fluid being burned is it is an excellent way to clean the carbon out of an engine.
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