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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruger" data-source="post: 1727080" data-attributes="member: 1594">White smoke means water in the combustion chamber, and that means a head gasket failure.  White = steam.  The pressure in the cooling system far exceeds that elsewhere in the engine, so that pressure forces coolant to go where it's not supposed to.  [USER=49121]@MurderedOutSVT[/USER] suggests you pop the oil cap and assess the condition of the oil.  I'd do that.  I think that will be most revealing when the engine is hot.  You might ask for a test drive, and then do that under the hood.  I'd take along a pistol or rifle cleaning rod with a small bit of clean rag on the end.That (above) is the traditional pre-magic-coolant, polyethylene glycol era.  I have no idea what color smoke the new orange coolant produces.  [USER=35543]@FordTechOne[/USER] probably knows.Blue smoke - and this is true whether it's dyno juice or synthetic oil - indicates the engine is burning oil.  That indicates a likely valve guide/valve seal problem, and less likely a piston ring problem.  With only 28K on the clock, this seems unlikely unless the engine has been run low on oil or otherwise abused.  I think that a compression test on each of the cylinders will reveal if this is the problem, but again this possibility seems unlikely given the relatively low mileage.  I have almost 94,000 miles on my 2011 and it makes no smoke.A head gasket replacement is less expensive than an engine rebuild.  If this engine needs anything beyond a head gasket, I wouldn't make the purchase.  Personally, I am adverse to spending my hard-earned money to buy somebody else's problem.</blockquote>

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