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Old 05-06-2019, 06:04 AM
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Help needed: White smoke and burning smell 4.8 is

Hi guys,

Just observed a white smoke and burning smell from right side of exhaust pipe. Is it safe to drive around 30km more to get it to home? Or towing?!

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Old 05-06-2019, 06:09 AM
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Check your expansion tank and make sure you have coolant. White is usually from burning coolant and you could have the making of a blown head gasket. If your coolant level is ok and you have cooled down then a short 30 km trip should be possible but the risk is up to you.

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After stopping 2-3 hours at my friends place, I managed to drive her to home EODguy all safe and sound. And no smoke observed this time except little burn smell. Need to figure out what is or was wrong.




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Old 05-06-2019, 09:06 AM
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Great. Now it's time to start with scanning for codes and running all live data with a good scanner.

Best of luck!!

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