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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by bealljk
You are not turbo'd or supercharged are you?
How many miles are on the car?
Any coolant colored gunk in your exhaust?
If you open your oil filler cap is there anything white in there?
Is your car consuming coolant?

white smoke and your thermostat acting like it is may indicate blown headgaskets...Your combustion cycle is forcing air into the coolant passage and air pockets are building up behind your thermostat and restricting hot coolant from opening the bi-metical thermostat element.
not FI yet but looking at it this summer
75k miles
No coolant gunk anywhere
Nothing white in the filler cap
Never had a coolant consumption problem
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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 10:41 AM
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I said head gasket in my first post :3

Edit- apparently this is the wrong thread, could have sworn it was thus thread I said that on O.o

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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 10:50 AM
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I was right and wrong.
I did say that in my first post, but was on rembrandt's thread... Lol
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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by FOOKhonda
I was right and wrong.
I did say that in my first post, but was on rembrandt's thread... Lol
Get your chit together. I will be doing the thermostat tomorrow morning so we will see how that turns out
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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by craig12895
Get your chit together. I will be doing the thermostat tomorrow morning so we will see how that turns out
Lmao I know right! I apologize for the hahaha.

For your sake i hope its just the thermostat, headgaskets can be costly to replace if you can't do it yourself. Good luck!
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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 09:25 PM
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still thinking it's the thermo...
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Old Oct 26, 2014 | 01:34 PM
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The thermostat did the trick.
Thanks everybody!
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Old Oct 26, 2014 | 06:58 PM
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Thanks for updating with the fix, hopefully will cut down on similar questions about this problem.

Glad it did the trick though
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