Q: Blew whitish smoke out both ends and dead
Husband was driving and said it acted like it wanted to go dead turning but when he was coming to a stop, whitish smoke blew from under the hood and out the tailpipe and went dead. Couldn't get it to turn over. Oil still in.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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