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Why do cars smoke?

Updated: 10/23/2022
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Assume you mean that it's burning oil. Typically that's because of poor maintenance or abuse.

  • There are several reasons that an engine will burn oil and most of the time these are caused by inadequate oil changes:
  • poor piston ring seal (cylinder taper, worn rings and/or carbon deposits in the piston ring grooves.)
  • Worn or faulty valve guide stems
  • SOMETIMES bad rod bearing can cause pistons to vibrate, allowing too much oil to remain on the cylinder walls.
  • A cracked piston can also cause quite a bit of oil burning, but that's quite rare.
BUTSometimes a sticking injector or a plugged air filter will cause a "wash down" situation, in which too much fuel gets into the cylinders, the fuel mixes with what little oil is on the cylinder walls, and the fuel and oil burn.

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White smoke indicates coolant entering the combustion chamber. Normally caused by a blown head gasket or cracked head. Blue smoke is oil burning, and black smoke is an overly rich fuel/air mixture.

IFit's black smoke (too much fuel) it can be caused by a sticking injector, faulty sensor or plugged air filter.

Note that if coolant is entering the combustion chamber there will be other indicators, such as serious misfiring and/or coolant will be blown from the water jacket. Without those indicators you are probably not getting water in the combustion chamber

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