Hey everyone, i have an '04 Coupe 5AT that i bought brand new and it has only about 16,000 miles on it. Please listen to this situation im trying to be as detailed as possible and i would appreciate anyones advice.. Yesterday i picked my car up from the dealership (Miller Infiniti) because my brakes were squeaking really bad, and mind you i had them replaced only 6k miles ago. So anyway they replaced the pads and the discs, and fixed my other problems like the window motor thats loose making the window rattle, the rearview mirror that tends to rattle under vibration, just little things all covered under warranty. Now here is the issue.. I drove the car maybe 30 miles since i got it back including the drive back from the dealership. I got an oil change at around 3k miles and i havent had to fill up gas since i picked it up. Today after class i came home and pulled into my driveway, put the car in Park and my friends alerts me that he smells something. When i looked behind me there were thick grey clouds of smoke coming out. I turned the car off and we figured something is wrong with the brakes even though this is very odd, but this was the only thing i could think since its been recently serviced. So i turned the car back on and he saw the smoke was actually coming out from both exhaust pipes and increasingly when i rev the car. I tried it later on in the day and it was still doing it and around 20 minutes ago i tried it but it was much much less but still fumes and smoke coming out minimal though. What kind of problem do you guys think this is? The guy at the dealer said something about throttle failure which is "a very common problem" BS!.. what do u all think?

 

Have you checked the oil level? No way it's related simply to brakes.

 

yeah, its not the brakes at all, definately not, thats just what they worked on, so im confused as to if this is coincidental or if it really is something the dealer could have done

 

so no one has any idea what this could be..? i would really appreciate any feedback

 

After the oil change make sure the dip stick is all the way in, mine was left out causing my car to smoke on the way home, Turned back and we found out what the issue was.

 

i didnt get an oil change though =/

 

Sorry misread...what color is the smoke and does it smell of anything i.e sweet smell could be coolant, or you could be burning oil....first things to check for.

 

it definately smells like something is burning kind of oil'y smell, when i just took the dip stick out right now, cleaned it, and reinserted it the oil went way past the "L to H" segment, as in higher then the H, i had the dealer fill up my oil fyi

 

but this was like 2 months ago, and the smoke is like white-grey

 

Cannot rely on the dip stick as they are so hard to read but if I remember correctly you should not fill past H but again you had it done awhile back so why did it start smoking now If it is still under warrenty then I would def. take it back and get it checked out.

 

id be willing to bet someone forgot to put the oil back in after the change...

 

Is your service guy John Flannigan? If not then maybe you should try to talk to him. Different service people help customers differently. John is the most helpful I have ever seen, whether it be Infiniti or any other dealership. He gets stuff done, and he actually does his best to get stuff done right.

 

Having that been said, he might be able to help you, in a way that your service guy may have missed something.. sorry, I left that part out lol

 

I just checked the car right now after waking up and the exhaust is still letting off what looks like white smoke, but its very minimal now, and inside the exhaust is like a white residue. I dunno if its because its a little cold out or because i just turned the car on. If i rev the car it increases the amount of smoke.

 

just bring it to the dealer, cant hurt...