I have a 92 accord ex with 195k miles on it and everytime I start it up in the morning and some other times, it shoots greyish smoke out of the exhaust for a few seconds. I did a search and I couldn't find anyone having this problem. Is this normal?

 

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Well every car spews out smoke when you first start it. It's because the motor is still cold and is not combusting correctly yet. After a couple minutes of warming up it shouldn't burn anymore white smoke, unless its really cold out.

 

What does it smell like? If it smells like oil (& strong), then it's probably not the normal stuff that Spankey's talking about.

 

It will sometimes smoke even after the engine is warm. It does smell like oil burning but I don't know the cause of it.

 

the ice cold engine wont start with 14.7 A/F ratio, when you first fire it up cold in the morning, your a/f ratio is about 8:1(running rich)and the cooling system is trying hard to get the motor in operational temp.

it's all normal.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by iam7head &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">... it's all normal.</TD></TR></TABLE>Yes, but that doesn't smell like oil. That's all I meant.

To bad we can't smell it firsthand to see for ourselves.

 

with that kind of millage, it's very likely that you have some small oil control issues, not a big deal at that millage.

- Nathn