ZSHO, i understand what your saying but the car usually get a wash every week. I personally think there is a serious problem because the car has done its smoking out the exhaust 3 times now since the car wash incident and if a little water got in anywhere it would have been gone by now. I went to the dealer this morning on the way to work, i'm going to drop it off in the next couple days, since it also has the timing chain rattle on a cold start so i'm thinking we can kill two birds with one stone. I think i'm going to push hard for a new engine, we will see how that go's......