Over filling with oil

[houston]

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!! 

That also wouldn't turn over surprise surprise   

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

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!

[golf-sib]

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.

[broken-passat]

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.