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White smoke coming from my tail pipe when I accelerate

As I was driving on the highway my car started loosing power suddenly and then a lot of white smoke started coming out of my tail pipe. The car is a 07’ Mazda 3 with about 40k miles. I did add oil to it (50-30) the night before and I can only think I may have added too much since I did not loose any coolant and the car is not overheating. What would be the fix?

  • rodrigojimen Sep 15, 2009

    Had two extra quarters of oil. After draining the extra oil the car works great.

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You may have a blown piston ring, valve seals, valve guides, cracked head gasket or a cracked block, etc... It sounds major though for you to lose power suddenly and have all that smoke...

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