renault scenic 1.4 petrol - White smoke burning oil?? help - Lindoo77

Hi there, hope someone can help.

We appear to have white smoke coming out of out exhaust, It didnt do this until our friend topped up the oil. Is it possible its been overfilled? the dipstick level appears higher than usual. can we drain it without any problems via the dip stick? Or is it likely there could be another problem.

Any help would be great.

renault scenic 1.4 petrol - White smoke burning oil?? help - Fernando P

Check the oil level when the engine is cold and the car parked on a level base. If the oil level is materially higher than the "max" marking you must drain some oil out by releasing the oil drain nut in the sump for a short time (and catching the oil in a container!) unless you have access to a siphon facility to use via the dipstick. If the oil level is correct, it could be the normal water condensation evaporating to steam that you see, especially in colder weather. But this should diminish/disappear when the engine is at working temperature.
You should not keep running the engine when the oil level is showing materially above the max as other problems are likely to occur ie crankshaft seals starting to leak oil, that are costly to fix.