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if they used a flush, or really thin oil, and removed some grime which may have built up and kept the oil where it should have been, then it's a problem.

If you have smoke, it may mean you're burning oil, or coolant.

Here's my point: It doesnt hurt to change oil to whatever you want, but it does hurt the engine if they used something really thin in the oil, some type of additive or something, that may have cleaned your engine. The burned in oil sometimes helps to protect the engine, it fills in part where metal should be, but was scraped away, or whatever.

This happened to my friend when he put in some TB cleaner or something.. it was so thin, it literally cleaned up his whole engine (like engine flush -- kerosine), but it removed the burnt in oil, and his bearing went.

Anyway, I hope that's not the case with you. You maybe leaking coolant into the combustion chamber... duno

Boris

Is this a problem... The dealer put in regular oil again by mistake and said it wouldn't be a problem. I've noticed the exhaust smoke is always white now despite the car being warm on not a particularily cold day. Any opinions?

Any comments or suggestions will help.

Thanks.

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