View Full Version : 23000 miles overdue for oil change
This customer came in today for a knocking noise in her engine.Pulled oil pan and found this crap.The crap in the head was horrific as well.Feast on this
2loud2k2xd
12-08-2005, 08:50 PM
WTF was that? almost looks like the inside of a porta-john. lol
importdriver05
12-08-2005, 08:52 PM
can you say poor preventive maintence
2loud2k2xd
12-08-2005, 08:54 PM
can you say poor preventive maintence
poor preventive maitinence..there is NO maitinence. :D
robs02elantra
12-08-2005, 09:07 PM
When I moved back to Australia for a couple of years in 2002, my aunt gave me her 01 Mitsubishi Lancer, it was lowered, had a bodykit on it, 18inch rims and low profile tires...it was one piece of awesome car.
It was also 45,000kms overdue for oilchange and basic service. Took me forever to bring it back to how it was supposed to be.
Estopatitiana
12-08-2005, 09:13 PM
of course, women..jk testament to the beta ones durability is that my sister has 100k miles on her 2000 elantra, it and has only had the oil changed 6 times!!! had the tranny fluid changed once by yours truly, and it still has original plug wires and hoses, every time i see it i say, that things not dead yet?
their warranty should be voided.
robs02elantra
12-08-2005, 10:15 PM
of course, women..jk testament to the beta ones durability is that my sister has 100k miles on her 2000 elantra, it and has only had the oil changed 6 times!!! had the tranny fluid changed once by yours truly, and it still has original plug wires and hoses, every time i see it i say, that things not dead yet?
You're going to have xtrawild all over you for that one!!
I could also tell the story of my friend in Highschool who had an acura integra. Didn't know what an oil change was until I told him after he had the car for a year. I don't remember how it came up, but I made sure to give him hell for it. So basic, yet such a huge difference from if you do get it done or don't.
Soron
12-09-2005, 03:16 PM
im absolutely horrified by this, i'm surprised the engine was still running at all!
ba_feitl
12-09-2005, 03:38 PM
That's nutz ... so does she get a free engine out of the deal ??
Brad
droppedlikewhoa
12-09-2005, 03:42 PM
her car and license should be taken away
korai9989
12-09-2005, 03:43 PM
I was in advance one day and some guy was getting a part talking about the Expedition he bought new for his parents with a V8. He mentioned that they had it for 80,000 miles or so... never changed the oil... thus the engine has to be replaced, JOY!
droppedlikewhoa
12-09-2005, 04:10 PM
I was in advance one day and some guy was getting a part talking about the Expedition he bought new for his parents with a V8. He mentioned that they had it for 80,000 miles or so... never changed the oil... thus the engine has to be replaced, JOY!
thats nuts, im surprised it lasted that long
BobMs_wht2k2
12-09-2005, 04:27 PM
I do remember a beat down 01 GLS that was towed into the shop. Bottom end had siezed. Still wearing the original black filter and the paint mark on the drain plug. 62k miles. The just kept adding oil when it was low. When we pulled the valve cover, the sludge packed into the top hwld the shape of the inside of the valve cover. It almost looked like a mold. You couldn't see the cams at all.
Things like that make you want to slap the piss outta people.
their warranty should be voided.
Oh and it will be
Ba_feitl-
That's nutz ... so does she get a free engine out of the deal ??
Hell no,shes goin to have to pay cash for that bad boy
I "inherited" my Elantra when I got married. Her X (not to get into a huge rant) never maintained her car ("it's just a stupid Hyundai, who cares!") ONce I started taking care of it, the pix above are exactly what the motor looked like. (at 80K) My girl says she gave him $ many times for work that was supposedly done to it... jerk. These are extremely tuff little cars to take this kind of abuse without dying.
jeffv1970
12-10-2005, 02:15 AM
When i worked for a chrysle dealer we had a intrepid come in that had 28,000 miles on it. Motor was locked up, turns out it still had the original oil and filter.
We hot tanked the heads for 10 hours and still couldnt get all the sludge out of them. Best part is at the time this happened chrysler did not make replacement 2.7l motor. we had to peice motor together. parts and labor was 12,000. had to build it from scratch.
Some people just dont think about maintaining the car.
02xdGLS
12-10-2005, 02:21 AM
12,000 dollars??
and the owner paid that?? or was it covered somehow??
omg. if it cost me 12g to fix my intrepid... i'd go buy a new car.
jeffv1970
12-10-2005, 02:33 AM
It wasnt covered, she was forced to pay she just bought car.
Reason it cost so much, is we had to get each individual part by it self. Nothing was complete. Imagine all the parts in a motor, have to be all seperate then add in labor for assembly of it all. Not like pulling one motor then dropping a new one. It had a insane amount of labor involved.
02xdGLS
12-10-2005, 03:10 AM
i understand why it costed so much. but...
she just bought THAT car?? or she just bought another car??
either way doesn't make sense to me. maybe i'm just dumb but if she JUST bought it then is she still responsible for those 28k miles w/o an oil change?? or if she put 28k miles on it herself... she didn't exactly "just" buy it, did she?? i mean even if she put 200 miles on it EVERYDAY, it still comes out to be 140 days. almost 5 months.
if she just bought another car... ride that one and save 12,000 dollars!!
not trying to say that your story is false or anything like that but the owner's decision doesn't make sense to me... i wonder how much she still owed on that intrepid...
edit: hmmm i dunno how long ago this was but with a quick search i found the highest intrepid sale price at around 18k and that's 04 intrepid se with only 20k miles. a few others between 12k and 18k and most below 12k.
w/e. i give up trying to understand why she had to pay. :P
evan938
12-10-2005, 03:35 AM
maybe she liked the car?
she may have still owed on the loan she took out to buy it, and when she realized she was going to be paying 12-18k for the car, wether or not the engine is blown, she decided to replace the engine and pay on a working car, instead of a car that will sit while she pays on it
Estopatitiana
12-10-2005, 03:44 AM
hopefully they knocked some sense into that hollow cavity she calls a brain and it doesnt happen again...maybe she blew 12 grand becasue shes inbred and stupid...i mean she didnt change the oil once right? so chances are the only thing she literally did was put gas in it..if that..i wonder if shes ever seen a mobile one commercial or a valvoline commerical and wondered "gee what do they do with that stuff?"
02xdGLS
12-10-2005, 04:41 AM
maybe she liked the car?
she may have still owed on the loan she took out to buy it, and when she realized she was going to be paying 12-18k for the car, wether or not the engine is blown, she decided to replace the engine and pay on a working car, instead of a car that will sit while she pays on it
i wonder how much she still owed on that intrepid...
w/e. i think there are still better choices than paying 12k to fix a car for which she still owes another 12k. but i'm not gonna take this thread that far off topic.
w/e her reason for paying 12k to fix it may be, i just hope she learned her lesson about regular oil change.
Vampyrate
12-10-2005, 04:47 AM
its not that hard to spend about 20mins (up to 5 hours as some posts have said) but come one, even in the owner's manual it says to change at least every 3k miles ( try to do it at least 2500 miles into it)
Soron
12-10-2005, 05:39 AM
Vampy, aparently you don't know that there really are absolute morons in the world, the owner of bakery I work for is one of them lol! You would think it would be common sense that ANY car needs an oil change/maintenance after a certain period of time or milage but some people just don't have any common sense at all! (I know I have worked with a few in the past)
Vampyrate
12-10-2005, 06:08 PM
dont get me wrong, i know there are idiots in the world... but i assumed that they were also too dumb to know how to turn it on and prolly skimmed over it in teh owner's manual on how to put the key in the hole. not only that, but dont some dealers tell you when you should get oil changes. i swear, people this dumb should be shot.....twice
cclngthr
12-10-2005, 07:10 PM
I had a 04 Elantra in my shop with a similar issue. The car had 35K miles and was serviced by the dealer regularly. There was enough sludge built up that it took a while to clean it out. I found the problem to be 2 things. 1. the oil passages are very small on our engines and 2. the oil pump on the car apparently was not primed right or was run dry. The oil pressure when I got the car was 30, but dropped to 18 when I cleaned out the sludge.
I ended up replacing the oil pump, crank and rod bearings, the rings and making the oil passages larger in the bearings. I also balanced the engine while I was at it. I engine dynoed the final product and got 152 hp at the crank and the oil pressure was 40 at idle.
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