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White smoke when starting the engine. the engine

White smoke when the engine is cold. while the engine is hot no problem or smoke.

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This is fine, the smoke is caused by oil flowing pass the piston rings when the engine is shutdown. its not an issue

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This is probably just condensation in the exhaust, if you are not loosing coolant that would be me guess.

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  • Posted on May 28, 2009

SOURCE: white smoke wen starts from cold an hunts 20 secs.

sounds to me like your idiling too high

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SOURCE: scudowhite smoke

white smoke is water being burnt ,head gasket or inlet manifold gasket leaking if it has a water heated inlet manifold that is ..

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  • Posted on Jun 14, 2009

SOURCE: 2001 Jetta 1.8T, 100K miles. Smokes when hot.

Ouch! you've got engine coolant in the exhaust from a leak somewhere...DO NOT run this engine until you get someone (dealer is best in this instance) to diagnose ($50-125)

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  • Posted on Jun 06, 2010

SOURCE: Suzuki Vitara V6, MAF sensor, white smoke.

i have a simialer problem but i was getting neat fuel out the exhaust as well . i removed the engine because id got a replacement then stripped the old one and as i thought it was a valve timing problem.looking at the engine from the front the cams on the left bank had jumped one tooth out of time so fuel was not being burnt and coming straight through the exhaust.strangely it didnt seem to have a big missfire and idling and smoke got worse when warm.

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SOURCE: 1996 peugeot 406 1.9 TD

Injector leak down problem.

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What does white smoke mean?

I seem to be answering a bunch of your questions today. Really hope they are helping in some way. White smoke can be lots of things. I little white smoke on a cool morning or a cold day when you first start the car is completely normal. Its just condensation inside the exhaust and cylinders themselves burning off. Lots of white smoke or smoking on a continual basis is not normal...and bad. Usually white smoke on a hot day, or white smoke after more than a few minutes of running the engine is a sign of coolant burn off. Most common causes there are either a warped or cracked head, or a bad head gasket. Again, hope that helps. I do hope all of these questions are in regards to a single car...if they are...it really might be time to consider either an engine swap or giving it up to the scrap yard...blue smoke AND white smoke add up to big problems. Both at the same time out of the same engine on a regular basis, really sounds like a cracked head in my opinion. Either way, good luck man!
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This seems to be a symptom of a blown head gasket.
White exhaust smoke is an indication of water / coolant in the exhaust. The car running sluggish and using lots of fuel can be caused by compression loss.

Look at the coolant level color and smell (with cold engine - don't open the high pressure reservoir with engine hot as hot coolant may spray you in the face). If you have a blown gasket, the coolant color may become brownish and it may smell bad or the level will get lower even if you have just refilled the cooling system.

What you can also check for is bubbles in the reservoir. With engine cold, remove the reservoir cap. Start the engine. Try to rev the engine (or have someone do it) and observe if there are bubbles in the reservoir tank. If you see lots of bubbles, you have a blown gasket.
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if it is oil , its most likely bad valve guides and seals, or both.
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