For those unsure how to do an oil change

Haha what a plonker goes to show not to always listen to advice your given :nono:

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i'm no petrol head but i knew that was bad advise. I thought he was flushing it with some more oil not actual water- why didnt he just use some fairy liquid at the same time to clean it all!
 
33L said:
i'm no petrol head but i knew that was bad advise. I thought he was flushing it with some more oil not actual water- why didnt he just use some fairy liquid at the same time to clean it all!
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:lol: He should of use proper engine flush you mix it with the old oil run engine for 20 mins then change the oil :bonk:
 
I knew a supposedly intelligent bloke that seized his car solid on the way to work, garage towed it away then called him to say that it was out of oil.

I said :-
"the oil level sensor must have been knackered otherwise the warning light would have come on"


He replied :-
"oh, is that a red light with a can thingy on , it's been shinning for a month"


:bang:


* Luckily He's moved to America :thumbs:
 
:bang: I think the below quote was a very useful and sympathetic peice of advice :thumbs:
PLEASE FIND ANOTHER HOBBY BECAUSE YOU SUCK AT THIS ONE!!!
 
Cobra said:
:bang: I think the below quote was a very useful and sympathetic peice of advice :thumbs:
PLEASE FIND ANOTHER HOBBY BECAUSE YOU SUCK AT THIS ONE!!!
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could we use that in the "Photo Critique & Sharing" threads or would it be too subtle :lol:
 
I had to go out and recover a car off the motorway a few years back, after it's new owner had decided to check the oil and, noticing that it didn't reach right up to the filler cap, decided to top his Metro up with five gallonsof oil.

Amazingly it still started and ran, but not for long, the crankcase pressure was so great that it snapped a conrod, which then exited straight through the side of the gearbox casing, instantly writing the car off :bonk:
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I had to go out and recover a car off the motorway a few years back, after it's new owner had decided to check the oil and, noticing that it didn't reach right up to the filler cap, decided to top his Metro up with five gallonsof oil.

Amazingly it still started and ran, but not for long, the crankcase pressure was so great that it snapped a conrod, which then exited straight through the side of the gearbox casing, instantly writing the car off :bonk:
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Oh dear :lol: I guess thats why now to pass your driving test you need to show how to top the oil up and things.
 
Cobra said:
:bang: I think the below quote was a very useful and sympathetic peice of advice :thumbs:
PLEASE FIND ANOTHER HOBBY BECAUSE YOU SUCK AT THIS ONE!!!
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mrgubby said:
could we use that in the "Photo Critique & Sharing" threads or would it be too subtle :lol:
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A bit subtle mayhap :shrug:
 
what a muppet, it shows that if you dont understand, ASK!


saying that we get some breeds of ****ing moron at work who've wrecked our engines, £75k down the spout because they havent put oil back in once they've drained it, or because they've paid no attention to the oil warning light (and alarm) on the dash.....

i notice that reading that thread (similar to the 106 thread) theres plenty of people dishing out advice when they know about as much as the original poster...
 
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hmm. An ex boyfriend of mine once managed to seize the engine on his car coming home from his parents. He drove over someones exhaust in Oxford, unknowingly cracking his sump in the process. When the warning light came on he thought he could limp the car home. He managed 35 miles before the car gave up just 10 miles from his home.
He actually managed to get his insurance company to pay for half the cost of a refurb engine because the police found the exhaust in the gutter the following day!
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I had to go out and recover a car off the motorway a few years back, after it's new owner had decided to check the oil and, noticing that it didn't reach right up to the filler cap, decided to top his Metro up with five gallonsof oil.
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a guy I work with had a old renault espace, the oil warning light came on so he topped it up, it didn't go out so he bought it to work to let the maintence guy have a look at it.

when he took the oil filler cap off he could see a pool of oil just under the rocker cover, he asked how much oil he'd put in it, a can and a half :eek: 6 litres

he reasoning was he kept topping it up bacause the red light didn't go out, he only stopped topping it up because he ran out of oil.

amazingly he'd driven it 15 miles to work and it was fine once the excess oil had been removed.

another guy serviced his Honda motorbike at work, he paid £40 for 4 litres of fully synthetic oil, he was carefully tipping it in so as not to spill any, unfortunately he hadn't put the sump plug back in and the bike was on a slight hill so all the oil was running down the road away from him, he didn't notice until he'd poured all 4 litres in and it still wasn't showing in the oil level window :bonk:
 
:bonk: I admit on reading first few pages I did wonder if it was a wind up, but on reading teh entire thread I am convinced there are such stupid people around. What amazed me was his comment, after several pages of 'you utter moron, you have totally siezed your engine and its time for a new /rebuild' that he still couldn't quit ebelieve he could have done that much damage! :lol:


Many years ago I owned a Golf, which needed the water topping up. My flatmate insisted she knew how to do it, the boyfriend had been teaching her. So, with the brash confidence of youth, I pulled into the carpark/forecourt at work, swanned off into the petrol station to scrounge a coffee from the manager [who i knew] and left her to it. STOOPID STOOPID move....her boyfriends old wreck had a rad filler cap, the golf was an expansion bottle....no prizes for guessing what happened next :bonk: It was fortunate that it was parked on my works carpark so I just left it there till the boys got in the following morning and drained it, flushed and refilled.
 
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