Wrx white smoke out of exhaust

The exhaust will also have a burned oil smell. If the white smoke is coolant, your car is definitely having a crack in the cylinder head or a leaky head gasket, along with a sweet smell. In most cases with cars that I have worked on, white smoke has just been carbon. You might want to check your AP maps.

Make sure your fuel is setup properly. Smoke on startup is normal? Well without being able to see it first hand this is just another guess.

Either the motor is on the verge of blowing or has just blown. One cause of white smoke from the exhaust might be the engine leaking coolant. If the engine leaks coolant , it will be burned by the heat of the engine and then come out as smoke from the exhaust. A problem with antifreeze might also be causing white smoke to come from the exhaust. Honda went and it would smoke the whole neighborhood out ) Petedozasaid: Thank you.

It just lingers around for a few before it disappears. If white smoke continues to come out of your exhaust while the car is running, there are other issues at fault. Just that it burns oil every once and a while. White smoke is one of two things, water or unburned fuel.

Check your oil dipstick to see if your oil is milky looking. So i was on my way home from school and i was feeling a litttle trigger happy so i gunned it to 140. So today I drove to sonic shut off the car and waited about ten minutes started it back up and bam white smoke drove about 1ft and it stopped.

Drive down the road and went into boost no smoke. Drove around for mins in and out of boost and no smoke. Only smoked on the start up. Blue smoke will suggest piston rings have become faulty and has allowed oil to move from lubricating engine parts.

A turbocharged car will also send out blue smoke whenever the blower has to be replaced. Before you think about a do-it-yourself project that includes your car’s exhaust system,. All it takes is a little bit of coolant to leak out and get mixed in with the engine oil. Once that happens, the oil will become contaminated. The first sign of having contaminated oil is white exhaust smoke coming out of the tailpipe.

As this continues, the white smoke will begin to have a sweet odor smell that won’t go away. Is there any oil leaking from the car? Does the smoke come out from the exhaust pipe?

Look under the hoo toward the firewall, you will see a heatshield there. Worn piston rings or cylinders: Piston rings seal the space between the piston and cylinder wall. If the piston rings or cylinder walls are worn, a proper seal can’t be formed.

As a result, oil will get sucked into the combustion chamber. The result is grayish smoke from the tailpipe. Have you checked your oil and coolant levels. Oil is typically a bluish tint.

If your burning coolant the exhaust smells very sweet IMO. Dean, 5woil is fine, Some white smoke at start up from cold engine is fairly normal and will dissipate (stop) for the most part after engine and exhaust has warmed up to operating temperature. If you notice you are low on coolant or having to add coolant then there could be an.

I think its an exhaust leak but it smells very hot and has an odd smell.