Pulled up outside my house today and I noticed quite a lot of white smoke coming from my exhaust,the engine was warmed up so it couldnt be that it was cold. I changed the oil 2000 miles ago and swopped from semi syn to fully syn castrol gtx magnatec, since then the engine has run smoother but it has used a little oil where as before it didnt use any, the mileage is bang on 80k which isnt a lot for this car, does anybody know how to cure this problem? cheers guys

 

oil leak into the engine...

 

Isn't white smoke burning coolant? Burning oil is bluish smoke.

 

my RX-7 used to burn a LOT of white smoke. my problem was definitely oil leaking into the engine.

but still, it could be coolant.

 

white smoke=antifreeze=blown head gasket or cracked head=[:@][:@]

 

ya when i blew my head gaskit it was the coolent getting into the engine, it was alot of white smoke

 

I dont think that the coolant has got into the engine cos theres no cross contamination, checked the oil before and it looks normal. well pi**ed me off cos i look after my civ real well so I dont understand how this has happend.

 

If its a blown head gasket, there might not be any cross contamination. The coolant leaks from the water jackets into the cylinder where it is promptly burned. I don't think that the oil gets that high up into C.C. b/c it would be burned by the spark plug or the hot exhaust gases.

 

did you check your oil dip stick then?

 

Yeah checked dipstick, oil is normal colour and near the upper marker, and coolant seems normal to.