Your vehicle’s health systems are a lot like our own personal health. Really!
Clogged Filters – When your filters get full of debris, they can’t do their job. Like how a person with asthma must feel. Cabin air filters protect you and your passengers from contaminants such as pollen, mold spores, dust and other small and annoying particles. Oil filters extend the life of your engine, transmission and differential fluids.
Sludge – This is actually a gooey, tar like substance that deposits itself inside your car’s engine, similar to a clogged artery. Motor oil, in addition to lubrication, protects your engine from excessive heat. When engine oil fails, sludge deposits are the result. Some engines have more trouble than others due to poor design. Their passages are smaller and oil actually bakes inside the engine.
Smoke – We all know by now how bad smoking is for us. When your car has a smoking issue, it is actually sending you an SOS – “Help me!”
Black exhaust smoke means the engine is burning too much fuel. The first thing we check is the air-filter and other intake components like sensors, fuel injectors and the fuel-pressure regulator.
Blue smoke is a clear sign that the engine is burning oil. Likely the valve guide seals or piston rings are worn out, and oil is penetrating beyond the moving parts being lubricated, into the combustion chamber where it’s being burned up with fuel.
Gray smoke can mean that your car is burning oil or suffering from a bad turbocharger. With older cars, automatic transmission fluid can get sucked into the engine through the vacuum modular or could simply mean a stuck PCV (positive crankcase ventilation) valve.
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