trogdor
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 04:29 PM |
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Lucky Escape......
Right i have meant to post this awhile ago,
Recently i was driving in my work van to London from the North West.
On the way down when i stopped at the M6 Toll Booth I found that when i pulled away that the van would not go faster than 45mph.
So i pulled over and found on opening the bonnet the oil filler cap had come off and there was oil everywhere!
What had happened was that when i topped up the oil before going i had not put it back right and when i stopped at the toll it came off.
I was so lucky that it jammed the throttle linkage meaning that the car only had a fraction of throttle travel making me pull over.
If it had not jammed then I would of being doing 70-80 mph when the oil ran out. 
I think i had only a minute or two before i would of caused damage as the sump was totally empty.
Luckily the AA didn't take too long to get to me and refill the engine with oil.
So this makes me wonder, has anyone else had a lucky escape?
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omega0684
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 04:36 PM |
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my old boss filled up her company passat will oil and forgot to put the filler cap back on, she rang me at 9pm from the side of the road saying that
the engine was smoking, i was 70 odd miles away at the time and she wanted me to go and fix the car!!!!!!
bloody ring the AA i said, its covered by the company!!
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mad_dogpompey
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 04:43 PM |
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im in the raf and work on chinook helicopters. one of my mates was changing his oil at work. was talking to him when he was doing it. as he was
pouring the oil in he was gobbing of that because he s got a new golf and the oil is long life stuff he won t have to change it for another 30 000
miles bla bla and then he was going on about how much the oil had cost. and then he realised he hadn t put his sump plug in and the 'shit hot
oil' was all over the floor! and this guy puts helicopters together!!! mint
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mcerd1
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 04:51 PM |
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a mate of mine (who knows nothing about cars) filled up the oil when the preasure warning light came on then called the AA when it wouldn't
start..... but he kept tring till the battery was flat
AA: 'how much oil did you put in?'
my mate: 'a bottle'
AA: 'how big a bottle, a 500ml coke bottle size or bigger?'
my mate: 'no much, much bigger than that'
the AA boy drained it off to the correct level and jump started it - and it seams ok
as for myself, my old fiesta at 70mph suddenly (like instantly) started making a very load tappety rattling sound - so I pulled over strait away and
got a tow home
the centre rocker shaft bolt had sheared, but somehow nothing else was bent or damaged (not even the rocker gasket) so it cost me one M12 bolt - not
bad for a 23 year old car that had never had any work done 
[Edited on 16/4/09 by mcerd1]
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mr_pr
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 04:56 PM |
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First time I worked on my car (Defender when I was a sprite 17) I changed the front discs and pads. Didn't realise I had to 'bed in'
the brakes.
Picture me trying to stop a 1.75 Ton Defender from 70mph with effectively only rear drum brakes on a motorway exit slip road. It is fair to say I
absolutely poo my pants.
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MikeR
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 05:10 PM |
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Lad in the office added an oil cooler to his range rover. Oil cooler fitting leaked and sprayed oil everywhere.
He found out when he tried to slow down from 70 on a slip road !!!!!
Another lad's brother ran a business. Never serviced the van, just topped it up with oil. Lad from office borrowed it and went down motorway.
Noticed it was smoking a little out the back. A little later he noticed it was accelerating on its own. He couldn't slow it down, knocked it out
of gear and stopped on the hard shoulder. Engine is reving its bits off. Took the key out and still doing it. Lots of smoke drifting over the
motorway. Phoned for assistance, by the time peeps arrived their had been a loud bang and the engine had stopped. Seems the oil filter had become
covered in oil and was feeding the engine.
Me, i've never done anything wrong or had any disasters ......... yet.
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blakep82
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 05:15 PM |
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girl at work asked me to check her oil one day, which was fine, it just needed a little top up. she told me she doesn't touch engines now since
her first car, when she decided to do it, and filled the oil right up to the top of the filler hole. immediately blew all the seals in the engine when
she tried to start it
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 05:27 PM |
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bloke i know used to work on John Deere combines,he drained the engine oil and went to tea,came back and there was 25 gallons of transmission oil
inches deep on the workshop floor...me,i never make mistakes
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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greggors84
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 05:39 PM |
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Girl I know stopped at a services are oil warning light came on. She topped it up but manage to get oil all over the manifold and the engine went up
in flames!
I borrowed my brothers fiesta one day. I was coming off the motorway on a fast left sliproad. Oil light flashed on as the oil surged and the engine
stopped and the car slowed very quickly! Dipped the clutch and pulled over and tried to restart but the engine was seized. Was going away for the
weekend so got a tow back home and left it there for the weekend. By the time i got home it started fine and lasted another year or so. Just around
the time he part exchanged it, it started making a lovely noise under load.
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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blakep82
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 05:39 PM |
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^ didn't you manage to build your truck into a housing estate with no way out?
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Gazeddy
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 06:12 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
Lad in the office added an oil cooler to his range rover. Oil cooler fitting leaked and sprayed oil everywhere.
He found out when he tried to slow down from 70 on a slip road !!!!!
Another lad's brother ran a business. Never serviced the van, just topped it up with oil. Lad from office borrowed it and went down motorway.
Noticed it was smoking a little out the back. A little later he noticed it was accelerating on its own. He couldn't slow it down, knocked it out
of gear and stopped on the hard shoulder. Engine is reving its bits off. Took the key out and still doing it. Lots of smoke drifting over the
motorway. Phoned for assistance, by the time peeps arrived their had been a loud bang and the engine had stopped. Seems the oil filter had become
covered in oil and was feeding the engine.
Me, i've never done anything wrong or had any disasters ......... yet.
nah mate your slightly off the mark there its normally the turbo oil seals that fail letting the engine run on the oil. had a few cars do that to me
scares the crap out of you when all of a sudden the car decides 70 is too slow
[Edited on 16/4/09 by Gazeddy]
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iank
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 06:36 PM |
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On the way to the pending inlaws the day before my wedding. I'd hired a brand new Orion (ooooh ahhhh) for the trip. Leaving the A1M, at speed,
the brakes failed (all hydraulics gone), as luck would have it I'd come off at the wrong exit which was a steep uphill (the correct one is steep
downhill onto a roundabout!) Smoked the rear shoes and stretched the handbrake cables getting the damn thing stopped.
Limped into the metro centre car park and called the AA. He looked under the bonnet and replaced an R-clip that had apparently come off and asked me
to pump the brakes to see if that had fixed it. Brake fluid then p*ssed out of the rear cylinder all over the shiny new alloy where the seal had
popped as I'd been pressing the peddle so hard according to the man in yellow.
Best man played the last post on his cornet as the car was loaded on the trailer. Marvellous end to a possible disaster.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 07:28 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mad_dogpompey
im in the raf and work on chinook helicopters. one of my mates was changing his oil at work. was talking to him when he was doing it. as he was
pouring the oil in he was gobbing of that because he s got a new golf and the oil is long life stuff he won t have to change it for another 30 000
miles bla bla and then he was going on about how much the oil had cost. and then he realised he hadn t put his sump plug in and the 'shit hot
oil' was all over the floor! and this guy puts helicopters together!!! mint
No wonder they keep crashing!!
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clairetoo
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| posted on 16/4/09 at 07:50 PM |
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My first van (1978 x-flow x-scrapyard Transit ) started to make a strange rattle on left hand bend's , which slowly got worse (wobbling on
right handers , wondering a bit in a `straight` line , and rattling all the time from somewhere at the back.....)
I got fed up with the noise so I went to the rear right corner , and pushed/pulled ......... and the rh wheel seemed to move . So I pulled the hub cap
off - and out fell three wheel nuts
And the last one on the hub was nearly off as well !
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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