Q: My oil bolt came off and I fixed it and put new oil, now car is smoking by the engine
I was driving and then all of a sudden my car was telling me that my oil pressure is low. I went to check and noticed that there was no oil bolt connected to my pan and I have zero oil so I put a new bolt on and I put oil in and now my car starts to smoke when I drive it
My car has 51000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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