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How normal is blueish smoke on revs or startup?

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Good thing that CPO has a warranty on it, and seeing that OP purchased it as a CPO vehicle, there are grounds to be shaking the dealer's cage here. It's a hassle, but OP has every right.

I personally know folks who work in dealers, and hearing from their side of multiple "stories" over the years, I can say this problem is mostly with the dealer as I'm sure most agree. This is a perfect example for why dealers will usually not take in any car that has been modified on trade. It's so much hassle to deal with as a dealer, and this situation shows it. That's why (usually, in the vast majority of cases) in the mass resale market, mods do nothing but hurt value.

The issue here is that this dealer should have never taken this car in on trade.
The other issue is that many CPO programs / vehicles across the board from any OEM never always go through each and every single check they're supposed to.

How it works is that since a car is CPO'd, it needs to obviously go through more thorough set of checks. This takes time, a technician's time to look over and check out. The dealer has to pay the tech labour on the ticket to inspect and write it up. This is somewhat the reason for the increased cost of a CPO vehicle.

The issue arises when you have a busy service dept at a dealer, some where they have the luxury of actually turning away jobs, or scheduling them weeks out. You have pressure from the Service Mgr to get all the Customer Pay jobs and Warranty Jobs out of the way, you're under pressure as a tech to get jobs done quick. In the meantime, CPO-ing a trade-in? Though wrong, many times, the tech will literally not check half the things on the list, and barely give it cursory visual check, and check off the box. Things like brake pad wear? Require the vehicle on the lift, and wheels to come off. Easy items to just check off and never inspect. Verifying that a car has a stock tune? Not even an item to be checked in the first place.

Further compounding things is the covid19, situation and lack of used vehicle inventory, due to demand in many markets. Used cars as most know, generate more revenue on the actual vehicle than new cars, and some markets have been seeing a lack of new car sales, not because of interest in them or cost (as we know, assuming good credit, most buyers can get the lower interest rates on a new vehicle, vs the usual 5 or 6% on used.)
It`s a lack of inventory of desired pkgs and trims, and many buyers are looking to slightly used units that may be closer to the customer`s preferences.
So overall, there was even more appetite than usual to take this vehicle in on trade, when it shouldn;t have been.

There's a lot of systemic issues that have likely factored and trickled down into OP`s problem, but either way, wishing you luck on getting this resolved!
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Blue smoke is definitely oil burning. Car should not have been CPO if it had a tune on it when they took it in. The tune should have voided the warranty.
 
 




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