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I was traveling at a low rate of speed after having traveled on the highway for about an hour when I saw blue smoke come from the tailpipe. Now, the car started hesitating and it was difficult to keep it running. What could have caused this to happen? My mechanic did find at least one fouled spark plug and changed all the wires and plugs. Now the car has trouble turning over even with a jump. How should he go about troubleshooting this problem?
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If it's slow to crank and the battery is 100% charged it may be a starter issue but the blue smoke concerns me. I'd say perform a compression test but it's not cranking. See if it will crank with a few or all of the plugs taken out. If not you may want to look into it being a weak starter, a frozen pulley, jammed flex plate. You can also use this link to get a second opinion as I suspect some more hands-on testing is required by a mechanic. https://repairpal.com/repair-shops Alex
My mechanic replaced the starter, so now we will look either at a frozen pulley or the issue of the potential for flex plate jamming up. Thank you