Oil Change Help Emergency!!!

I changed the oil on my friends Hatch 2004 AT this weekend. i originally though the oil plug was the plug on the alluminum pan in the middle, but the bolt was huge and on super tight. i tried to loosen it and couldn't. i worried that my guess was wrong and that it was the transmission, not the engine oil and looked. i found another bolt on a darker metal piece that was under the drivers side. it was vertical bolt. upon removal engine oil came out. a lot less than i had expected, but what i assumed was about 3 quarts. i removed the fileter and put on the new one, replaced the bolt and started putting in the new engine oil, right about 4 qts. this was saturday, the veh sat until today (monday). Upon starting the veh it ran fine, when after the first stop light it had trouble accelerating and had white smoke coming out of the exhaust (burrning oil?). I had to pick my friend up and bring her into work, and the veh is left in a home depot parking lot, but i don't know how to go from here. I think it's over full, but i don't know where to go from here.

This wasn't my first time changing oil, just my first time on this particular model ( i own my own aveo, and just going out of warranty was about to start changing my own oil as well) i actually did two oil changes on saturday and the one after this one was totally with out issue and i feel like crap both for my friend and for the fact that i cannot afford to make repairs on someone else's vehicle.


someone please help me.

If you can drive the car home put it on jack stands. Buy a haynes manual and drain the oil from the correct hole. Install new oil and filter. Use a flashlight and look at the oil pan on the bottom of the engine. Make sure you are draining the oil pan. Excessive oil is causing the smoke. It will probably need new plugs. Try running on an express way to clear the plugs. Excessive oil can blow a seal don't drive far. If you belong to AAA have it towed home.
You can take a floor jack and jack stands and do it at home depot. You may get asked to leave.

or just get it to ur nearest shop and have them drain a lil bit for ya. they shouldnt charge ya but iof they do its minimal. do hurry!

The engine oil plug is the one right in the middle of the car. IF your off to the driver side, then your doing the tranny. As they said above, remove the plug and drain the oil and remove the filter. Let it drain for about a good 2 hours and replace the plug. clean the area real well esp. around the oil filter. I use Fram on mine and it runs great. Then only use 4 qts of oil (5W-30). Mine always accepts 4 qts.

Good luck!

Last time there was too much oil in one of my engines, it basically fried the engine. Oil shot past all four cylinder heads (Mustang LT). And it smoked worse than a white smoke grenade. Loss of compression and all. Oil ended up in the exhaust system. The sad thing was that it was synthetic oil that I paid someone else (King Lube) to change. But as the change was done in Georgia and it blew up in Pennsylvania, where I just moved. It wouldn't have been cost effective to have to sue them in Georgia with a Georgian Attorney. So my car/engine with only 8K miles on it, 1.5K since the oil change needed a new engine. $3K down the toilet.

Or should I say one of the last times. WalMart put too much oil in my replacement engine. So much that it didn't want to start the next morning. Took it back to WalMart, they insisted they put the right amount in, had them physically go over and check it themselves. And they did a second oil change no charge. Only to be rear ended by a Ford F-350 and have the car totalled before I reached 37K miles(less than 29K on the new engine). Got really screwed over by the insurance company and will never live in Louisville, KY, or own another FORD, EVER AGAIN.

Basically if it's smoking as bad as you claim, you might need to replace the engine. And perhaps the exhaust system as well.

If it was tranny fluid it should have been red in color. Oil should be brown, until it's spent at which point it's black. But so is brake fluid. Anyway it should be fairly obvious what's wrong by the smell / symptoms of the car. The main one being the heat gauge. If the engine gets too hot it'll weld itself to itself. When my oil problem happened, it just lost compression and stalled. When I started it back up, it smoke like b..... So much for idling to stay warm at 20F while waiting for the apartment office to open.