I have a 97 stratus es 2.5 V6. When the car gets hot it smokes and i get a knocking sound and than the car shuts off and the oil light comes on on the dash. Can anyone help me with this problem.

 

Welcome to the site. I will move this thread to the Stratus section,
FF

 

By "HOT" do you mean warmed up? Smokes from where?

 

pretty much no way to make you feel good about this. motor is shot and needs a rebuild.

 

yes i mean warmed up and first it starts smoking from the front right in front were you poor the oil and when it gets really warmed up it is smoking for the passenger side of the engine some where near the dash.

 

I had my Demon motor rebuilt as it started to blow blue smoke. Oil will get past the rings of the pistons and will burn in the cylinders. A good machine shop may charge you $1500.00 to completely rebuild the motor, but you may need new pistons if you need it bored out instead of honed from excessive wear,
FF

 

I changed the oil pressure switch and the knocking sound has went away and the car longer shut off. I hope that it is fixed.

 

Sounds like you have a lot of oil on the outside of your engine too. Having oil and dirt on an engine will act like an insulator so you need to wash all the oil on the engine. You won't get it looking like new but keeping an engine clean seems to increase their life. At least thats what I have discovered.