which is worrying seeing as it was garage serviced 1000 miles ago. I drove slowly home and decided to drain the oil to see what came out, not even 1 litre came out and it was as black as night. Also the drain plug was only finger tight. It took 3.5 litres of oil to get it up to the correct level. Now I either have a very sick engine that has used 3.5L in under 1K miles, (no visible smoke on start up, driving or when reved hard), a serious oil leak (not a sign of a drop under the car) or someone has been working on it, got called away and then forgot where they were or do you guys have any ideas. If say only a litre of oil was put in would the engine have survived doing 1K miles?
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What do you think??
by woodwizzard on Sat May 10, 2008 6:33 pm
Bit of a strange situation with our toyota avensis, would like some thoughts on. Its a 1.8vvti X reg with 80k on the clock. Runs sweet as a nut, starts straight up and returns close to 45mpg on a run, so to my mind the engine is sound. The thing is this, I checked the oil level today and nothing on the dip-stick which is worrying seeing as it was garage serviced 1000 miles ago. I drove slowly home and decided to drain the oil to see what came out, not even 1 litre came out and it was as black as night. Also the drain plug was only finger tight. It took 3.5 litres of oil to get it up to the correct level. Now I either have a very sick engine that has used 3.5L in under 1K miles, (no visible smoke on start up, driving or when reved hard), a serious oil leak (not a sign of a drop under the car) or someone has been working on it, got called away and then forgot where they were or do you guys have any ideas. If say only a litre of oil was put in would the engine have survived doing 1K miles?
which is worrying seeing as it was garage serviced 1000 miles ago. I drove slowly home and decided to drain the oil to see what came out, not even 1 litre came out and it was as black as night. Also the drain plug was only finger tight. It took 3.5 litres of oil to get it up to the correct level. Now I either have a very sick engine that has used 3.5L in under 1K miles, (no visible smoke on start up, driving or when reved hard), a serious oil leak (not a sign of a drop under the car) or someone has been working on it, got called away and then forgot where they were or do you guys have any ideas. If say only a litre of oil was put in would the engine have survived doing 1K miles?
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Re: What do you think??
by Rich2.4i on Sat May 10, 2008 6:47 pm
Myself would say that someone did not put enough oil in it when serviced as i am sure you would have seen some oil dripping from underneath or a bit of smock as the oil was burnt ....
as long as the oil light did not come on you may have got away with no damage to the engine ....
best thing to do is keep checking the oil level every day or two to see if it goes down again ....
as long as the oil light did not come on you may have got away with no damage to the engine ....
best thing to do is keep checking the oil level every day or two to see if it goes down again ....
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Re: What do you think??
by Drift on Sat May 10, 2008 6:53 pm
I think you have been lucky, I kniow this happened to someone else recently seems he was running on slick50 no oil, he replaced oil and its been fine 
Check it daily
no oil, he replaced oil and its been fine Check it daily
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Re: What do you think??
by woodwizzard on Sat May 10, 2008 6:57 pm
Yeah, going to check it daily, realy can't think it is anything other than human error. Will have to talk to the garage to see what they say. Just hope there is nothing wrong with the car.
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Re: What do you think??
by Drift on Sat May 10, 2008 6:59 pm
Are there no oil stains anywhere ?
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Re: What do you think??
by Rich2.4i on Sat May 10, 2008 7:01 pm
New slogan for the Toyota avensis ....
The car in front runs on only a litre of oil ...
The car in front runs on only a litre of oil ...
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Re: What do you think??
by woodwizzard on Sat May 10, 2008 7:24 pm
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Re: What do you think??
by Drift on Sat May 10, 2008 7:26 pm
Think your right in the human error thing then as you would have either a cloud of smoke or a trail of oil, you would have deffo noticed that much under the car.
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Re: What do you think??
by woodwizzard on Sat May 10, 2008 7:30 pm
Yep, if I change the oil and get a few drops on the drive it gets noticed, if you know what I mean , if there was 3.5litres on there I would be hanging from a tree and not by the neck
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Re: What do you think??
by Drift on Sat May 10, 2008 7:33 pm
My sump plug is dripping about 4 drops a day and Im getting funny looks, so it will be fixed in the morning
So yup I know what you mean, and mine is on the road
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Re: What do you think??
by Rich2.4i on Sat May 10, 2008 7:37 pm
I Like this Truck of mine, just like me it's well run in it's not old just older.
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Re: What do you think??
by woodwizzard on Sat May 10, 2008 7:40 pm
Walk it in through the house and see how popular you are then
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Re: What do you think??
by Drift on Sat May 10, 2008 7:40 pm
Ive done that Rich 
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Re: What do you think??
by Rifleman on Sat May 10, 2008 10:47 pm
Its deff human error, funny that the plug was only finger tight though????
I would go back and gee thum sum stick mate.
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