My Evo threw its toys out of the pram last night..

[Wicked Neo]

Well just filled up with petrol and drove off onto the main road when the oil light came on.
So I pulled over to the side of the road and shut the engine off, popped the bonnet and checked the dip stick....nothing on it!
Strange as only that morning I had carried out all the routine checks on it and the dip stick was showing just under max.
Looked back up the road and there was loads of oil on the road behind me though, starting just after I had pulled out of the garage.
Checked under the car and oil was just dripping off the underside, was also all over the front splitter right about where the oil cooler sits just behind the bumper..

So called out the AA and was told it was suspected oil cooler failure, it was possibly punctured, nothing they could do on the side of the road and ordered up a recovery truck.

Full marks to the AA for how quick they turned up, it was 100pm when I called them and the first guy was with me in 25 minutes, the recovery truck was another 30 minutes from when they was called :smthumbup

So today I started to take the car apart to check the oil cooler, once i had got the inner wheel arch plastic and brake duct plastic off, it was obvious why the car had dumped all its oil

one of the oil lines to the oil cooler had come away from the oil filter housing and this is why

Not sure how that could have happened? any ideas?

At least its a cheap fix.

 

[Neal R19]

cool, so you reckon you caught it before any actual damage was done?

Bloody unreliable jap cars

 

[minichapperz]

manufacturing problem that has taken years to come forwth? thats after market yea?

 

[minichapperz]

cool, so you reckon you caught it before any actual damage was done?

Bloody unreliable jap cars

yea not french eh!

 

[Wicked Neo]

cool, so you reckon you caught it before any actual damage was done?

Bloody unreliable jap cars

I do hope so, i shut it off as soon as the oil light came on even though the dip stick showed nothing in the sump, it still had some oil left in it, as the deck of the recovery truck must have had about a litre of oil on it when we got the car off and the plastic sheeting i put under the car last night to save the driveway getting stained had a good covering of oil on it as well this morning.

I wont know until I have a new fixing put onto the oil line and have refilled the car with oil.. my fingers are crossed lol

 

[minichapperz]

i reckon it will be fine mate it would have still had oil in the head etc i can remember doing a oil change on a punto at work once, took the bung out and all that came out was drips lol

 

[f7r]

surely thats an aftermarket hose it looks to pretty to be standard. If it where me I'd retrofit standard hoses.

 

[Chris H]

I have seen a lot of failures like that.

I'd get a decent pipe made up at Pirtek.

As for the engine as long as you weren't boosting fully in 5th gear at 140 it'll be fine.

Engines can go a while with no oil if they are not heavily loaded.

 

[psgold67]

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As for the engine as long as you weren't boosting fully in 5th gear at 140 it'll be fine.

this is Simon we are talking about and as he had only just pulled out of the garage the chances are - HE WAS at 140mph :lol:

hope its all okay mate

 

[Wicked Neo]

my thoughts exactly about pirtek Chris, going to be visiting them this week to get a new hose made up.

lol Paul, nah I was at 30 mph and off boost.

 

[Chris H]

they should knock one up quicker than you can say 'rock me Amadeus'

 

[The T.I.B.]

Well good luck with that. Need to get the 19 back up and running as backup

 

[mals]

Well just filled up with petrol and drove off onto the main road when the oil light came on.
So I pulled over to the side of the road and shut the engine off, popped the bonnet and checked the dip stick....nothing on it!
Strange as only that morning I had carried out all the routine checks on it and the dip stick was showing just under max.
Looked back up the road and there was loads of oil on the road behind me though, starting just after I had pulled out of the garage.
Checked under the car and oil was just dripping off the underside, was also all over the front splitter right about where the oil cooler sits just behind the bumper..

So called out the AA and was told it was suspected oil cooler failure, it was possibly punctured, nothing they could do on the side of the road and ordered up a recovery truck.

Full marks to the AA for how quick they turned up, it was 100pm when I called them and the first guy was with me in 25 minutes, the recovery truck was another 30 minutes from when they was called :smthumbup

So today I started to take the car apart to check the oil cooler, once i had got the inner wheel arch plastic and brake duct plastic off, it was obvious why the car had dumped all its oil

one of the oil lines to the oil cooler had come away from the oil filter housing and this is why

Not sure how that could have happened? any ideas?

At least its a cheap fix.

Did the AA man have light blonde hair and a permanent Drunk expression on his face?

 

[minichapperz]

LMFAO excelent mals