Turn on my car to show my neice, she hasn't seen it yet. Well I turn the key, exhaust as always makes its perty noise. But sadly, blue smoke comes out the back, you could smell the oil in the air. I got my oil changed a week ago so that counts out overspill, sigh, don't know what to do. Sent my Scion dealer an email since there phones just direct to service and no one is there. Booooo!!!...not what I wanted for Christmas. The engine temp is fine thank god, but I'm watching my display extra careful. I checked the oil and was less than half filled, so I put a bit more in, just incase, now I gotta wait to get a reply of what to do. Ugh...shoulda gone to someone I trust...oh well.

blue smoke? dam, sounds like you got a bad car out of the batch. That really sucks considering its new. You have my sympathy. :cry:

I checked the oil and was less than half filled, so I put a bit more in, just incase,
did you check the oil level before or after you started your tC? if you checked after you started your tC, you may not get a correct reading since all your oil is not sitting in the pan.

Was it just one poff of smoke or was it constant?? and how long was the car running?
maybe the car was having a drag!! lol j/k i know how u feel. My old talon did that a lot when i would be driving and then site for a while in a drive-up window and the temp guage would start to go up and blue smoke would come out of the exhaust. Huh :lol: :cry:

Pull the dipstick.

If the oil on the dipstick looks like chocolate milk, then you know you have a blown head gasket.

Pull the dipstick.

If the oil on the dipstick looks like chocolate milk, then you know you have a blown head gasket.

I'm just gonna pummel someone at my dealership because it makes me feel good :P...hehe....the service guy hurt my baby and I will be forced to throw something at him, whatever is in grasp, presently I have one of the stock wheels in my trunk so we'll see how he likes that dropped on him, or I can hit him with the rear sway bar sitting next to it...hehe

sorry will....
but hey... i got blue fog lights if that makes u feel any better..
they dont seem to match the head lights.. but ill get the fogs smoked and
put them off sometime this week
if you wanna help?!>.. later will

um a blown hg wont be blue smoke. normally white cuz the wates is way more visible in smoke. either way . not goods. how did u break in the motor? take it back it very well could be a motor with improperly installed rings , or intake valve seat seals.

don't feel bad my blue tc had to have to fender repainted already, it only has 1500 miles on it talk to your dealer and call scion directly they helped me alot.They dealer aslo sent in a scion factory rep to look at it and take pitcures.They took down everything to sent back to the factory. CALL SCION THEY WILL HELP THEY WANT A GOOD NAME STARTING A NEW BRAND.

Happened only after the oil change, so its nothing wrong with the car, until the service tech touched it.

im shure it had nothing to do with the oil change or the tech
i will howerver recc you just take the vehicle in for repair and after repairs if any start bringing your own oil the stuff they make the dealers buy (penzoil) is crap! or you can request they use "toyota" brand oil they have to stock this
oil for warr repairs

um a blown hg wont be blue smoke. normally white cuz the wates is way more visible in smoke. either way . not goods. how did u break in the motor? take it back it very well could be a motor with improperly installed rings , or intake valve seat seals.

Sorry. Just speaking from experience. I blew two Celica motors and both times, it was head gaskets and blue smoke.

Blue smoke usually means it is fuel related possibly running too rich, Black smoke is oil and white smoke like the clouds in the sky is water.

Man that is not cool....hoepfully your scion dealer will help you out...which they should...keep us posted on what happens...

Blue smoke usually means it is fuel related possibly running too rich, Black smoke is oil and white smoke like the clouds in the sky is water.

you got one of those right

blue is oil

black is running rich

i learned that on my old car that was carburated always ran rich and left black soot in the snow, the driveway when i let it idle long enough too little black marks left on the drive way that was cool kind of like leaving my mark every where i go :twisted:

Got an email back from my dealer, its going to the General Manager...

Somehow I don't see him being useful. Maybe the Service Manager, but the GM...don't think so...sigh...what sucks is my dealer isn't exactly close by, its an hour away, and with me having no free time (I work at Ford ironically enough) I don't get much time to go there. I might just get my oil changes at ford, at least I know what oil they use and who will work on my car. This sucks, it happened right after the tech worked on my car, so don't tell me it can't be related to him working on it. I see techs all day, they make all kinds of weird ___ blunders when they're with a car.

Did they over fill the engine with oil?

don't feel bad my blue tc had to have to fender repainted already, it only has 1500 miles on it talk to your dealer and call scion directly they helped me alot.They dealer aslo sent in a scion factory rep to look at it and take pitcures.They took down everything to sent back to the factory. CALL SCION THEY WILL HELP THEY WANT A GOOD NAME STARTING A NEW BRAND.

They actually sent someone out? The normal respons would be, "you did it yourself, its not a manufacterers problem".

So what exactly did they do for you?

Have em check the seals, blue smoke can mean that oil leaks through due to a loose seal of the rings.

Blue smoke usually means it is fuel related possibly running too rich, Black smoke is oil and white smoke like the clouds in the sky is water.

you got one of those right

blue is oil

black is running rich

i learned that on my old car that was carburated always ran rich and left black soot in the snow, the driveway when i let it idle long enough too little black marks left on the drive way that was cool kind of like leaving my mark every where i go :twisted:

Oops backwards again. I knew it did'nt seem right when I wrote it. Thanks.

no problem :)

Check the oil first thing in the morning before you start the car. Is it overfilled? Often if too much oil, some will be sucked up in the crankcase venting and be burned in combustion.
I had this happen on an old HiLux, and it scared me near to death.

Alright, set up an appointment in two weeks, holidays suck ___. So I'm just gonna be real gentle, and I have a bottle of oil sitting in my passenger seat buckled up and put in a plastic bag just incase. I might pick up a oil filter while I'm at it, and find my oil pan...hehe...the Service Manager was cool, sadly they're closed this weekend, so I have to wait which really sucks ___, but he told me they would check over everything. I'm basically gonna make em do a check over all my fluids, seals, gaskets, hell my valve cover...I'll sit there and wait. I know what every part looks like. I'll buy a soda and pull up a seat. :P...

yeah my dealer crushed my rocker panel with the lift when i went to get the mudguards installed they fixed it the next day but wouldnt replace it. the tech totally noticed the dent cuz there was a clean sport over the dent and he tried to give it back without telling me its not the dealers fault its the dumbass techs there _______s that think there special cuz they know more than my dog about cars.