Why is my car losing oil but no leak or smoke?
Your vehicle’s engine requires oil to lubricate the moving parts and prevent engine overheating due to friction. If your car is losing oil but no leak or smoke, the problem is usually related to an internal oil leak that you don’t notice or important faulty components in your engine.
Can a car use oil and not smoke?
Even without blue smoke or a burning oil smell, you could have a car burning oil but not leaking. Oil consumption is a normal part of engine operation, with normal oil consumption averaging up to a quart per 2,000 miles.
What can I put in my engine to stop it from burning oil?
In addition to using HIGH MILEAGE, you can run Sea Foam Spray through your engine’s intake or spray it directly into cylinder cavities to let pistons soak, cleaning rings from the top end. It will also clean intake valves, which is particularly important on gasoline direct injection engines.
Why is my engine burning so much oil?
Burning oil is often the result of worn out parts. For example, worn valve seals and/or piston rings could lead to your car burning oil. With worn parts, engine oil can leak into this mixture, which leads to an internal burning of oil. …
What makes an oil leak in a Toyota Highlander?
There is a difference between an engine using oil and and leaking oil. If there is no oil visibly leaking from your Highlander’s engine, but the oil level is dropping, your engine is “using” oil. That means that it is finding its way into the combustion chamber and out of the tailpipe. Here are the most common oil leak symptoms:
Is the Toyota extended cab losing or burning oil?
I just recently bought a 1992 4- cylinder, toyota extended cab 4×4 and love it! It is losing/burning oil somewhere. ZERO leaks and ZERO smoke! I do notice a little burning smell when I back up into the exhaust. It has 115,000 miles on it and is in excellent condition.
What happens if you have an oil leak under the hood?
Smoke Under the Hood – If oil is leaking from the right spot, it can leak onto the exhaust manifold (s) and it gets smokey. It’s not nearly as flammable as transmission fluid. All it usually does is smoke and stink. Fixing an oil leak means determining where it is coming from and repairing the issues.
What does Toyota say about no leaks and no smoke?
He says ZERO leaks and ZERO smoke! That is what they are saying until they have someone start the car up first time of the day and themselves went to the back to look at the exhaust coming out from the tail-pipe.