Check engine light and white smoke

[GoTbOOsT]

I got a check engine light yesterday and when I shut off the car and looked at the tail pipe there was white smoke coming out of it even with the car off...

I checked my oil and its a lil overfilled and its liquidish and dark dark brown.

I think the oil is gettin in to the cumbustion chamber and burning oil.

What do you think is the problem???

[Daunttless]

White = Coolant. If your oil is dark dark brown and kind of milky it probably means you have coolant in it. That could be a number of different things, headgasket, warped head, cracked block, destroyed timing chain cover, etc.

[horsepower]

Could be any of those dauntt said........I had the same problem... Loss of power ,was hafting to add coolent ever 2 days ,the idle was rough, and was over heating sometimes, so i changed the water pump thromaste check the timeing your name it i done all that time i wasted changeing things that was working fine and i had a blowen head gasket and coolent was dumping in to #1 pistion Good luck

[jmillheiser]

white smoke = coolant.

daunt alreadly explained which the causes could be.

[GoTbOOsT]

The car doesnt overheat tho.... Hmm I think Im gonna go t Autozone and run that free OBD test on it and see whats wrong with it... I just hope its the O2 sensor... If not... ****....

[fiznat]

yea but smoking even when the car is OFF? thats a little weird... I mean, I know white = coolant, but you're not burning anything when the car is off...

the white could be steam maybe? maybe you're overheating and your temp is broken? you could be overheating because too much coolant has been burnt and there is nothing circulating round your engine? check the coolant container-- is it empty? haha... uhmm also check to see how the "smoke" smells... coolant has a sweet-ish smell to it.

EDIT: also to narrow things down, have someone start the car while you look in the radiator (cap off, obviously), and in the coolant resovior (sp?). bubbles in either place can point to a headgasket leak.

[horsepower]

jmillheiser i know dauntt explained. i was just giveing some of the many problems that can occur when a head gasket is bad or is getting bad but not yet total broken......that was only my experence with a bad head gasket,,that was not totaly blown... \

When its blown just have about $800 cash ready cause thats what its going to cost you..if you going to fix it you self email me i just put a head gasket on and i can tell you what not to do and youll only spend lets see head gasket $40 intake $ 10 max and the exhoust gasket $20 at max Gasket maker RTV 5 bucks valve cover gasket $12

[GoTbOOsT]

Ok let me list the probs again... so it narrows down...

-Check engine light-Oil above the H mark-Oil dark brown, liquidish-White smoke out the muffler-Smells liek something burnt. That plastic burnt smell.

[GoTbOOsT]

Oh yea and Ive seen the white smoke like cold in the morning and dark at nite. The both situations when I saw the white smoke it was cold.

When the engine warmed up and was operating at a normal temp, I dun think I saw the white smoke...

[GoTbOOsT]

Oh yea the coolant resorvoir seems to have enough fluid. Its around MAX