Car help...

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was the smoke white or more of a blue/grey color because that would indicate burning oil.  it also has a more acrid kind of nasty smell unlike coolant which smells kind of sweet.

 

have you checked to see if you're even losing coolant?

[Ja Rhule]

Its not a sweet smell... It's smells like burnt nasty chemicals.  It gives me a headache...

 

Here's my oil color and level.

 

[Shufdog]

It's hard to tell from that pic. but that doesn't look like clean new oil.

[Ja Rhule]

My coolant is nearly full...  You can see pink line

 

[Ja Rhule]

It's hard to tell from that pic. but that doesn't look like clean new oil.

 

What about now?

 

[Shufdog]

That's better! It looks good to me.

[chknwing]

arsen take it back to the dealer and have them do a compression test, that will tell whether you have a broken gasket or not.  not seeing white smoke right now, doesnt mean you dont still have an issue.

[Kevin Greene]

Are you sure the smoke is coming out of the exhaust pipe itself and isn't just shyt they blew down onto your exhaust system when they "cleaned it' burning off when it gets hot, especially when you nail the gas?

 

Ain't gonna be a head gasket causing coolant to burn if your reservoir is still at a normal level.

 

[Ja Rhule]

arsen take it back to the dealer and have them do a compression test, that will tell whether you have a broken gasket or not.  not seeing white smoke right now, doesnt mean you dont still have an issue.

 

I am first thing in the morning tomorrow...

[Kevin Greene]

The advice in this thread is like the hysteria in the Panthers forum sometimes.

 

A head gasket isn't just going to fail in your 4 year old Toyota unless it overheats.

As for the coolant in the oil comment generally this will happen if a cylinder cracks, again due to over heating and will not cause smoke but rather turn your oil into a milk shake.

 

Just watch your temp gauge, and for a ck engine light when you drive it in.

There will probably be a reasonable explanation to whatever the fug is going on with your vehicle.

[Ja Rhule]

The advice in this thread is like the hysteria in the Panthers forum sometimes.

 

A head gasket isn't just going to fail in your 4 year old Toyota unless it overheats.

As for the coolant in the oil comment generally this will happen if a cylinder cracks, again due to over heating and will not cause smoke but rather turn your oil into a milk shake.

 

Just watch your temp gauge, or a ck engine light when you drive it in.

There will probably be a reasonable explanation to whatever the fug is going on with your vehicle.

 

Everything looks fine and smoke stopped.  So it might be something they used to clean my engine, I dunno.

[Shufdog]

The advice in this thread is like the hysteria in the Panthers forum sometimes.

 

A head gasket isn't just going to fail in your 4 year old Toyota unless it overheats.

As for the coolant in the oil comment generally this will happen if a cylinder cracks, again due to over heating and will not cause smoke but rather turn your oil into a milk shake.

 

Just watch your temp gauge, or a ck engine light when you drive it in.

There will probably be a reasonable explanation to whatever the fug is going on with your vehicle.

 

That's what I thought with his first picture of the dipstick, the oil looked like a chocolate milk shake, I've seen it before. The second, clear, picture looked fine.

[Ja Rhule]

Maybe they overfilled the oil?  It's near damn full...

[Shufdog]

As long as it's not past the "full" mark you are fine. Even if it was just a little bit over I think you would be ok.

 

Edit: Now if they put two or three more quarts in it than what it calls for, I don't know what would happen.