Smokey EG?

[BLKek]

My GF's mother just called and says something's up with her car, I'm just about to go over and take a look but would like to ask if anyone else has encountered minor smoke from the exhaust, I asked if is could be condensation but she's 99% sure its not.

Anyways, its litterally driven like a pansy and has around 140-150,000kms on it, I don't think its had regular servicing after 110,000 so I first thought old oil (or perhaps very little oil in it but obviously will check the colour and level etc), what else to look at, plugs? Leads? Exhaust? I suppose I should get a compression test aswell yeah?

[Weq]

what colour smoke. when does it appear, from where?

[civiceg9]

do an oil change first clean your sparks, see how the car smokes out then
white and black smoke is fine but if you get blue that would be bad news.

[bennjamin]

what colour smoke. when does it appear, from where?


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Does it smoke on fresh startup ( say , overnight parked - first thign when u trun the car on is alittle bit of white smoke ) OR during normal driving ? OR onyl at wide-open-throttle ( heavy acceleration ?
What colour is the smoke ? blue/grey or white etc ?

[BLKek]

OKy Dokey, no smoke when I got there so def was condensation, took it for a run to get the cobwebs out and its drives quite well, but, its got a hiss that sounds like a small air leak under load (not on idle) had a look at all the hoses and couldn't find a crack or missing clamp etc. Pop the hood and the engine sounds a touch rattlely so I said "book her in davo" as she couldn't remember when she last had a service, haha....