what do u do if your car is burning oil?

Question

it only does it if you are stuck in traffic for a long time what do i need to do to get this fixed ? it just started on july 4th i dont sit in traffic alot but i noticed when i have been driving and sit along time it has little smoke its white and goes away in a few min or when i get moving .thanks for any help you can give me.

Answer 1

White smoke is not an indication you are burning oil. that would be blue smoke. White smoke is steam, you have coolant getting in there somehow. In your case, since it goes away, it's likely just condensation, and nothing to worry about, but check with your mechanic to make sure.

Answer 2

Just have a look if there is any leak any where underneath or around any fumes coming out. Sometimes there is a leakage from gearbox driveshaft and drops on exhaust. If every thing is alright open the engine oil lid, start the car, put your hand lightly for a minute or two, if you have some sprikles on your hand, it means your ring pistons are going. To get these changed it is a big job and expensive too. Normally people buy half reconditioned engine instead of getting rings pistons changed and rebored, which almost costs almost the same. A temporary relief you can get just add oil treatment cann, costs a little, it is a very thick kind of oil, pour it in engine, it mixes up with engine oil, thus the car goes a little bit longer and prolongs for some time but keep an eye every couple of days and maintain the oil level.

There is another check for this fault. Take out oil dip-stick, wipe it with clean cloth, dip it again, take it out watch if you can see water is mixed up with engine oil and is abnormally thin and the radiator water is disappearing. If so, the head-gasket is going. Again a major fault, if you keep on driving, maximum in one week, the engine will pack up and you wont be able to start. Wish you good luck that it does not come to a big expense. By the way, how old is the car? It is a normal fault when the engine has done over 150,000 miles.

Answer 3

My suggestion is that your car needs a tune up, complete with oil change. Oil weakens the older it gets. So if you go a long time inbetween oil changes, it's not a good idea, especially since the car idles in traffic jams. After the tune up, check it daily if it hasn't went away in five days take it to a mechanic you TRUST. If it is using oil, as in putting a quart in every other day skip the above and take it to a mechanic asap, It means you have an oil leak somewhere leaking onto the exhaust causing the smoke. Watch the oil gauge.

Answer 4

exceptionally undesirable...in case you have heavily worn piston rings and the oil is blowing previous them in the process the compression stroke and burning off. it extremely is slow sufficient which you will not have extensive plumes of smoke together as making use of...yet sufficient the place a small volume of gray or white smoke could be popping out of the exhaust together as making use of. Assuming the ingredient became crowned off with 4-5 quarts on the final oil substitute, burning a quart each a million,000-or-so miles is a severe loss cost. no longer catastrophic...yet very severe. Realistically, in case you you would be wanting to function a quart each a million,000 miles, your automobile will final for a pair of extra years. (next time you have the oil replaced, examine the dipstick at contemporary to make confident that the mechanic has crammed the oil to the right point.) As for the oil easy no longer drawing near...IF the automobile certainly had purely one quart left in it...it could have come on....or a minimum of flickered in the process no longer basic braking or speedy turns. maximum possibly the plug to the oil sensor is disconnected or broken off. it extremely is extremely basic to knock this ingredient loose whilst working below the automobile. it may additionally be that the sensor plug that screws into the oil pan is defective. A no longer-very-difficulty-loose journey...yet a low-priced and basic restoration. ultimately, working your automobile to the low gas easy has no longer something to do with the engine oil. It being on would not impact oil intake in any way.

Answer 5

If it's a lot of white smoke, then you are burning coolant, and you might have a blown head gasket, or something along those lines. It's not oil your burning, oil would be a bluish color. Check your oil and see if it's a light clear to a dark black color, and if it is, then you have no coolant in your oil, if the color is clayish tan looking or green, then you need to take your car to the mechanic right away.

Answer 6

What are we working on? Year make model & miles please! If the engine smokes at lower speed in traffic you do have a oil consumption issue. How many quarts per 3,000 miles? Problem here is your exhaust emission cat converter getting carboned up.

Answer 7

. WHITE 'smoke' is water vapor, like steam. BLUE smoke is oil. BLACK smoke is unburned gas. When gas burns, one of the byproducts is h2o, water. It dribbles out of the tailpipe unless it's hot enough to make it steam. .
You don't have a problem, except maybe with rust. .