# White smoke, ahhhhh

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/white-smoke-ahhhhh/21240>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [October 26, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/white-smoke-ahhhhh/21240 "2008-10-26T00:52:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![xandernlaura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/13edae/32.png) [@xandernlaura](https://community.cartalk.com/u/xandernlaura)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/white-smoke-ahhhhh/21240/1 "2008-10-26T00:52:46Z")

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My husband just changed the oil on our 2003 Subaru Forester, and now when we go to drive it, white smoke billows out of the exhaust pipe, and the gears are not engaging properly, and we do not have as much power when they do, WHAT DID HE DO???

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**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/white-smoke-ahhhhh/21240/2 "2008-10-26T01:18:32Z")

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See my answer to your other post.