Yea I’m so glad your suspicions were based. I drove about 150 miles after the car was initially smoking. If damage to the engine was done, is there a way to tell to what extent? Should I be asking them to check certain things?
No it shouldn't have damaged anything. I've driven cars for years with leaking rocker cover gaskets that smoked regularly no dramas. Of course the devil is in the details but should be fine.
Gotcha. Thanks for your help as well as everyone who chimed in on this post. Is this something they should have caught at inspection? I’m no expert but I feel like a car with 10k miles and no accidents that produces smoke from the engine the day of purchase had to not have been thoroughly inspected.
Depends who inspected it. A pre purchase independent inspection should have picked it up for sure. A dealer inspection, probably not.
