Blue Smoke

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Good Day, Everyone!

I received a call from a friend to say that he saw a puff of blue smoke come out of the exhaust pipe of my Ion as I left the parking lot (I did goose it a bit ). I checked the oil, which reads full, to see if I was burning oil. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have an explanation?

I'm not due to bring in the vehicle for service for another 8000km (I have 2000km already), other than for the free car washes , but if it's something that could hurt the engine , I'd like to get it looked at ASAP.

Thanks and Best Regards!

[geokots]

It hasn't happened to me. With my limited knowledge it most likely is oil burning off. It doesn't take a lot of oil and it just started happening you oil level could still show as full. I was burning oil in my old 300ZX but I only had to top-off the oil once a month so it can be very slow.

Have you done any changes to it? Any other leaks that you're aware of?

Let someone else take it for a drive where you can watch it and if there is smoke on accelleration and shifting then take it to the dealer.

[rlinbatonrouge]

Are you sure it was blue? I have generated some black smoke from the exhaust when hitting the gas really hard, but that's just carbon and is normal.

[XeroState]

It probably was just a little oil being burnt. Though the absolute worse thing it could be was that you didn't have it fully in gear (which you would know as you can feel/hear/know if it is or isn't). I missed 3rd in my old tercel...nottin but a blue cloud behind me...it was actually kinda of funny (i didn't care about the car) as i knew the people behind and their car stunk like a burnt clutch smell for a week...lol.

[barefootrl]

Funny this comes up because just Tuesday my son was behind my car and he told me he saw a puff of smoke when I started the car. It had been sitting all day. Never noticed it before or since.

[Signals]

I thought blue smoke was too much fuel in the mixture (running rich) and black smoke was burning oil.

[goofyguy]

as long as its not WHITE. nothing like a headgasket.

[Little RED]

They Say Some Cars Do That, When I Worked For A Dealership I Would Start Up 60k Navigators And Ls Lincoln And They Puffed Out Smoke, And They Only Had Like 1 or 2 Miles On Them. I Think They Say They Do That For A Reason But I Have No Idea Why.