Q: My car is smoking and i sew a little oil dripping on the exhaust but its not dripping on ground.

asked by on January 25, 2017

I don't know why my car is smoking. And dripping oil but not on ground

My car has 151789 miles.
My car's transmission is unknown to me.

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