My car is .....smoking, i have withe smoke coming out of my left passenger side (when i accelerate fast in the highway) so i think it might be an injector.... how do i know if one is leaking

 

Left and passenger side are two different sides of the car. Leaking injectors would smoke black if at all, but not white. Where exactly is it coming from?

 

sorry.... right passenger side, is withe smoke

 

I doubt it's an injector or you are lucky you haven't gone up in flames. Check your coolant level.

 

my reservoir bottle is empty but my radiator has coolant left

 

Top up the rad and fill the coolant reservoir bottle to the cold fill mark when the engine is cold, in the morning or after the car has been setting for a while. Re-check every morning to see if you have a leak.

 

might be an oil leak.

 

White is Coolant Burning. Find the source and fix it. If it were gas youd be able to smell it LONG before it started smoking and it would most likely burn, before smoking.

-matt

 

is there anyway to check for a coolant leak?

 

i would suggest looking under radiator in yellow pages, they should only do radiators. don't go to midas, or tires plus, or jiffy lube, make sure the shop does rads only if possible. be careful, that smoke could be a head gasket going bad, which could blow the engine and/or cost you a fortune for a new head. you might also have water in your fuel, that happened to me once, generally early in the morning after it sat for a few days. good luck

 

I have to agree with the head gasket failing as the cause of the white smoke . I have another car that did the same thing once.

 

my car is leaking oil somewhere an i don't know where it is. usually starts when i finish driving. could this be associated with the smoke?

 

nope. oil smokes blue. coolant smokes white. my guess is that you have a coolant thats leaking onto something hot and producing the smoke.

 

check coolant level and overflow resevoir. if either is low or the coolant has'nt been changed in 30,000 than change or add as needed. coolant should be a bright green and have no smell. ( burnt and or metal )

 

my car has a mistery oil leak, think maybe that could be the problem?