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Old 02-02-2008, 10:49 AM
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What does white smoke mean?

83 300D with 277K the seller claims there is white smoke upon acceleration? WHat does that mean? Thanks

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Old 02-02-2008, 10:50 AM
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its burning water/coolant

is their anyway you can tell us how it smells?

try and look hardner next time.. If its grey its fuel
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Old 02-02-2008, 10:58 AM
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Wow

How diffricult would it be to replace the heat gtasket on these cars?
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Old 02-02-2008, 11:09 AM
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lets not point to that first.

But since you asked. It's fairly involved
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Old 02-02-2008, 05:20 PM
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> What does white smoke mean?

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Old 02-02-2008, 05:22 PM
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If it is the same color as the white smoke that came out of the car that I was behind 15 minutes ago, it's burning anti-freeze. I could smell it.

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