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Title: Over filling with oil
Post by: Gavo1989 on 22 March 2011, 17:09

Hi all has anyone ever over filled thier car with oil to the extent the car wont run?

if so what did you have to do to fix it?
Gav

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: rio_gti on 22 March 2011, 17:11

cant say i have but have you drained some out yet?

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: Wayne on 22 March 2011, 17:15

Drain it out quick you will cause damage to the cat if your not carefull.

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: Gavo1989 on 22 March 2011, 17:18

Its not mine. Someone is selling one and he sais he over filled it with oil. Drove it about a mile and then it wont start. I assume he hasnt drained it.

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: Wazzzer on 22 March 2011, 17:21

is this the one on ebay? How much is it going for?

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: snifferdog on 22 March 2011, 17:22

I think I overfilled mine to the point that a seal gave way and caused oil to leak onto the clutch  :undecided: :lipsrsealed: Id get some drained out before anything else.

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: Gavo1989 on 22 March 2011, 17:40

no was on gumtree. wheres the one on ebay at mate?

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: Wazzzer on 22 March 2011, 17:49

ah you might be right actually, I just remember seeing it somewhere

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: houston on 22 March 2011, 20:23

when you mean wont start, do you mean itll still turn over?

extra oil = extra pressure, not good for any seals. and it damages the cat

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: richw911 on 22 March 2011, 20:28

I worked with someone once who overfilled his car with oil - he put enough in to reach the top of the dipstick i dont mean the max level - up to the loop where you pull it out!!  :shocked: :grin:

That also wouldn't turn over surprise surprise  :grin:  :lipsrsealed:

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: houston on 22 March 2011, 20:45

Quote from: richw911 on 22 March 2011, 20:28

I worked with someone once who overfilled his car with oil - he put enough in to reach the top of the dipstick i dont mean the max level - up to the loop where you pull it out!!  :shocked: :grin:

That also wouldn't turn over surprise surprise  :grin:  :lipsrsealed:

my girlfriends cosuin done that on his mazda 3 sport, took it to garage and they said it was wrecked and need a new engine (4k) so i bought the car off him extremely cheap, rebuilt the engine and made a tidy profit :smiley:

moral of the story, dont overfill your engine, and dont trust the first garage you drop it at or youll end up selling your 10k car for less than 1k!

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: golf-sib on 22 March 2011, 20:54

Block the breather then start it up, as the engine cant breath and heat causes an expansion then all the oil will piss out of the dipstick due to the pressure and expansion... Found this out on my polo in my silly days when I thought I'd eliminate a breather as it was another pointless feature put there. Mind you it was still fine after and did 130k before I got rid of it.

Title: Re: Over filling with oil
Post by: broken-passat on 23 March 2011, 08:00

maybe over filling with oil stopped the bottom end knocking , and then the con rod popped off. never known an engine to stop running after to much oil put in . only if it was parked up for some time , and the oil gets passed the rings
an apprentice i know filled the engine to the top of the rocker cover and it ran fine..... until all the bottom end seals went 30 seconds later.