White smoke from the exhaust

[alexc0814]

Hello!

Yesterday I had a slow blinking coolant light which stopped itself after a minute or so. I carefully monitored temps and took it easy but figured it was just a wonky sensor since it went away and my car wasn’t overheating.

This morning the light was not blinking, car didn’t overheat but when I was about to pull up to work I noticed a huge plume of smoke out of the back after taking off from the stop light. I parked at work and sniffed what was coming out of the tailpipe. It didn’t smell sweet but just kind of hot and burnt? I shutoff the engine and checked the oil which looked fresh and not milky. I got the coolant cap off and noticed the level was lower but it’s been a while since I’ve seen it too since the container is so opaqu.

Unfortunately had to leave the car at work and it’s being towed to the shop on Monday. I am hoping for AOS failure of course, which I normally wouldn’t think twice about as I have no record of it ever being done on the car- except for the timing with the coolant light flashing yesterday.

Has anyone experienced something similar? I would be shocked if it was a cracked head considering the engine didn’t appear to overheat and even though the coolant was low it was still visible in the overflow tank.