Thread: motor oil level
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Old 04-27-2007, 03:21 PM   #24
eslai
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Originally Posted by n4ally2
okay guys. I have taken out the excess oil and the car is running fine. Now, for my original question. I found the answer. If you look at the original thread, i asked if smoke would come out if there is excess motor oil in the engine. That is true. When I started the car, a cloud of white smoke came out of the exhaust pipe. So I think that is the smoke. From now on, I will be real careful putting fluid in my car.
I doubt that was the excess oil that made that white puff of smoke, unless you're talking about a HUGE cloud. Generally oil smoke is black, not white, and it would smell like burning oil.

I would expect that you'd see the effects of an overfill more during hard driving.
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