Thread: Quart of oil in 3 weeks

well is the motor burning the oil or leaking it?

Definitely burning it; I first noticed the smoke a month and a half ago. Took off from a left-turn light and there was a huge cloud of bluish-white smoke behind me.

The smoking is intermittent. It's also accompanied with the engine temperature increasing to a fully open thermostat, at which point the fan kicks in and keeps it at about 210. During this it smokes lightly during idle and dumps smoke during acceleration.

I just passed smog 4 weeks ago, and I'm fairly certain it wouldn't have passed if it was smoking at the time.