Let me start from the beginning. I let a friend do an oil change and he put in an oil treatment after the change. The car started blowing massive amounts of white smoke. Took it to Honda and they flushed the engine, but instead of 100% of smoke, they got it down to 20%. They said the pressure in the…

I forgot the name of the oil treatment he put it. I do know that I haven’t been able to find him since all this happened. And tt took about 15 minutes before it started blowing smoke. And they flushed the engine and changed the oil. That was the first thing I checked when I noticed that the light wa…

Model year?? Mileage?? Did the car do ANY of this BEFORE you changed the oil??

2003 Civic EX, and it has 72,000 miles. And it did none of that at all.

I’m not an expert on this, but I think your problem might be low oil pressure. That would turn on the Oil light. Oil pressure is also used, I believe, to activate the variable valve timing and failure to do that properly might be what the check engine light is about. I think that your next step m…

It sounds like your friend put in too much oil in addition to the oil treatment (always a bad idea). The too much oil way be what has done the real damage. I suspect that at this point (after driving with those problems), you need a new engine.

What brand / type of “Treatment”??

Was there any special reason the oil was being changed? How long ago (miles and months) was the last oil change? I suggest that you don’t use any additives, unless there is a reason. Oils and other engine fluids are really good right out of the can. Additives can cause as many problems as they f…

The car started blowing massive amounts of white smoke. Took it to Honda and they flushed the engine, but instead of 100% of smoke, they got it down to 20%. They said the pressure in the engine was fine and didn’t know where the fumes could be coming from. This is astounding. Massive amounts of w…

In addition to overfilling it, if the additive was sea foam it would have thinned out the oil. You aren’t supposed to drive more than 10 miles with that stuff in there before changing the oil out. That could have done permanent damage as well.

My oil light and engine lights are on :(

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shadowfax July 26, 2010, 1:25pm 2

what kind of oil treatment did he put in there? How long had you driven it before it started blowing the smoke? When they flushed the engine, did they also change the oil?

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My oil light and engine lights are on :(

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