Hello, new guy here. I've owned my 2011 Accord for about 2 years, and have never had a problem with it until now. It only has 42K miles on it, and would appreciate some possible insight/advice on what this issue could possibly be.
My accord was sitting since monday evening. Yesterday evening (wednesday) I go to start her up because we were heading to my brothers birthday party. When I cranked it, it did not start, but kind of stumbled for a moment, then nothing, just cranked with no fire. I cranked for about 5 seconds with nothing happening. Then, I floored the gas pedal while cranking, and after about 15 seconds It started up. At the same moment it started, a quite large cloud of what looked like blue smoke to me came out of the exhaust. It seemed like it was idling fine. I shut her back off since I saw the blue smoke and checked the oil, nothing was on the dip stick. The next time I tried to start, she fired right up.
I then drive down to autozone and get a quart of oil to put in, put it in and now the dip stick reads most of the way to the top dot, so it seemed to be about a quart low on oil. I also noticed then that when the car is sitting at a stop I can smell what seems to be gasoline, but possibly burning oil, coming through the vents into the passenger compartment.
I was completely blown away that such a new car with only 43K miles would have a problem like this. There was no CEL, no oil lamp, nothing the entire time.
Has anyone experienced something like this? Is this something the dealership would be able to check into under the standard powertrain warranty, even though there is no CEL?
Thanks for your opinions.
My accord was sitting since monday evening. Yesterday evening (wednesday) I go to start her up because we were heading to my brothers birthday party. When I cranked it, it did not start, but kind of stumbled for a moment, then nothing, just cranked with no fire. I cranked for about 5 seconds with nothing happening. Then, I floored the gas pedal while cranking, and after about 15 seconds It started up. At the same moment it started, a quite large cloud of what looked like blue smoke to me came out of the exhaust. It seemed like it was idling fine. I shut her back off since I saw the blue smoke and checked the oil, nothing was on the dip stick. The next time I tried to start, she fired right up.
I then drive down to autozone and get a quart of oil to put in, put it in and now the dip stick reads most of the way to the top dot, so it seemed to be about a quart low on oil. I also noticed then that when the car is sitting at a stop I can smell what seems to be gasoline, but possibly burning oil, coming through the vents into the passenger compartment.
I was completely blown away that such a new car with only 43K miles would have a problem like this. There was no CEL, no oil lamp, nothing the entire time.
Has anyone experienced something like this? Is this something the dealership would be able to check into under the standard powertrain warranty, even though there is no CEL?
Thanks for your opinions.
