Hi there. The guts of this story is a 2002 3L Auto Camry Sportivo (120,000km), that started to blow a load of smoke when it went around corners (in particular turning off a freeway off ramp). Took it to Toyota and was basically told I was confusing smoke with steam )
After following their only suggestion I put oil cleaner in before each change and strangely enough the smoking around corners slowly subsided to nothing after 2 changes but was replaced with white smoke only on start up. But only when I go on the freeway or a 20min trip where speeds get over 60. Shorter trips/low lower speeds don't give me a smoking car.
Well sort of . My son checks the oil/sump for drips etc and strangely enough, more often than not if he checks the oil or wipes around the sump seal the car will blow a small amount of smoke when it would normally not smoke (after a short trip).
So as weird as it sounds, my questions are, could something be blocked ? Seeing the problem sort of got better could/would dropping the sump and cleaning it out help ?
Oh, the only thing I'm loosing (other than my mind :))is engine oil as the transmission oil is fine and coolant looks ok too.
Any insights at all will be appreciated.