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your car is burning oil.
What color is the smoke? Black - running rich. Bluish - buring oil. White - burning coolant. When you smell the gas, it is inside or outside the minivan? Back of the car or near the front?
The smell of rotten egg is coming from your catalytic converter that is plugged up White smoke is an indication of water (usually antifreeze) in the exhaust.
i get white smoke when i step on the gas.
Black smoke means you're burning fuel, blue smoke, you're burning oil, white smoke, you're burning coolant.
head gaskets gone.
I feel these are unrelated but you can investigate a leak in the hoses leading to the heater core as they maybe leaking onto the exhaust pipe, that would produce white smoke, but not from within the tailpipe exhaust. Water and oil leaks will produce white smoke the smell will help you determine which it is.
White smoke is steam It may be a early indication that the head gasket is failing.
white smoke is water, black smoke is oil. remember that!
Not directly, but it can crack or blow your head gasket. (Which will cause white smoke) Happened to me =(
Hello, This could be cause by a couple of things, it could be the piston rings are getting tired (Whats is the mileage on the vehicle?) or the valve seals are getting also old letting oil pass trough it and burning when getting in the combustion chamber. White smoke is caused by oil entering the combustion chamber (Burning oil creates white smoke when burnt.)
white smoke indicates a blown head gasket. Is your car using one quart of oil a week?