Somebody please! help me..!

[ZB00B00LSv8]

Oh

And I have ESP for my car through Ford. Say I change my AC filter (which isnt covered under my warranty like wtf???) and theres still something wrong.. They can get into a lot of trouble right? haha cause my car has over 100 components covered like all my gaskets engine pieces brakes, etc, so that might have to do with whats going on right?

And Im covered under ESP til 110,000/5 years and I just got it in Jan at 80,000

 

[Andrizzle]

If the smoke was white, its possible it was steam coming off the manifold from the rain... But that seems weird for 'a few drops'.

Like others have said, check the coils. I would take it to the dealer and tell them to take a look at the coils since its under warranty for that.

 

[Alax7]

Ready to over heat? Does it have enough coolant?

 

[ToeCutter]

listen to me very carefully...not changing your AC filter when the car says to can be very dangerous..I don't want you to get hurt

since your having a problem doing it yourself... give me your addy and I'll drive out to Cali and help you out

I won't even charge you...............well........... we'll work things out

 

[pektel]

AFter reading all that, I want to say it's valve cover gaskets. The running rough is from oil getting into your spark plug wells, and killing the coils. Maybe it's leaking bad enough that you are getting oil onto the manifold, and the smoke is it burning off.

Are you losing oil?

Also, is the car actually getting up to max on the temp guage, or are you just assuming it's overheating because of the smoke?

If it is overheating, it could be something as simple as air in the cooling system, and it just needs to be bled properly.

 

[pektel]

Oh, and thanks for keeping up your end of the bargain with the pics lol

 

[05 LS8]

Here is a picture.

By the way, those look inviting...

 

[tagliato22]

welcome. hope you get the problems sorted out quickly.

lovely pictures, by the way. you remind me of a girl i knew in high school in the one where youre leaning on the hood.

 

[ZB00B00LSv8]

Sooo..

I took my car to my mechanic and come to find out my car ISNT messing up because my A/C filter.. its being retarded because both of my catalytic converters are shot. Now somebody please.. could you tell me what would cause that? My car misfiring right? Due to my coils? So this should all be covered.. right? I sure hope so.. under my ESP warranty. And they said theyre still looking for other mishaps but he said its my cats because my car temp gauge hit hot and my car was smoking, stalling, and would go to reduced power mode. Ill be calling him tomorrow to find out the rest of my problems.. ;[

 

[joegr]

I took my car to my mechanic and come to find out my car ISNT messing up because my A/C filter.. its being retarded because both of my catalytic converters are shot. Now somebody please.. could you tell me what would cause that? My car misfiring right? Due to my coils? So this should all be covered.. right? I sure hope so.. under my ESP warranty. And they said theyre still looking for other mishaps but he said its my cats because my car temp gauge hit hot and my car was smoking, stalling, and would go to reduced power mode. Ill be calling him tomorrow to find out the rest of my problems.. ;[

Your catalytic converters are failing because your car has been misfiring for a while. Misfires = raw gas going into the catalytic converters. Raw gas into catalytic converters = ruined converters.
Coverage completely depends on the terms of your particular warranty.
If you don't completely correct the misfire problem(s), then the replacement converters will quickly fail too.

 

[Alax7]

And get your coils fixed first because if you fix the cats first and then decide to do coils a little later, you're going to mess up your cats again. Probably should do both at the same time asap but coils first to not damage new cats.

 

[Alax7]

OOPS, guess I missed the last sentence sorry for the repeat

If you don't completely correct the misfire problem(s), then the replacement converters will quickly fail too.

Like joegr said