Started smoking out the exhaust

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Didn't you use a quart of ATF during that oil change? When does it smoke- at startup? When accelerating? All the time? After it has been running for a few minutes?
 
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No atf, start up smokes, maybe at take off, when stop its there, ill watch better tomorrow
 

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What color smoke?
White - antifreeze (likely bad head gasket)
Blue - oil - bad rings
Black - fuel - bad/stuck injectors, running too rich, etc.
 

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What color smoke?
White - antifreeze (likely bad head gasket)
Blue - oil - bad rings
Black - fuel - bad/stuck injectors, running too rich, etc.

To add to this, it may be easier to identify by smell:

"Sweet" - Antifreeze

"Kinda like diesel exhaust" - Oil

"Gasoline and charcoal" - Raw/unburnt fuel

Not questioning your intelligence, but many refer to vapor (steam) as "smoke". Verify that it is or isn't vapor. Also, it's normal for engines to blow water out of the exhaust right after startup which then produces vapor after the engine and exhaust is warmed up. This is more prevalent in cold weather.
 

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Startup, deceleration or idle can be valve guides/seals.
WOT usually rings.
 
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Well guys, it literally stop, I havent seen it the last 2 times driving!
Merry Christmas and thank u for every1 advice I will remember if it happens again
 
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Well today my oil light came on, I check the dip stick, I having to add oil? ?
Just changed it 3 weeks ago 0w 30 high millage synthetic
What's Goin on
 

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Well today my oil light came on, I check the dip stick, I having to add oil? ?
Just changed it 3 weeks ago 0w 30 high millage synthetic
What's Goin on

I had a V6 that every once a blue moon would consume all of its oil and then never lose a drop for another couple of years. Must've happened when all the ring gaps lined up or something.

Motor ran fine.
 

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