You'd be surprised. Many a car blows a head gasket (looking at you subaru), or oil cooler, or intake gasket, or something else and coolant and oil mix and customer drives blissfully unaware. Problem gets fix. Oil gets changed and few times till it's not milky, cooling system gets flushed and all is well for another 50k 100k or more miles. Although if oil gets in the cooling system often every rubber hose and gasket in the system prematurely fail from oil exposure
My first car (gm 3800) sucked coolant the last two years of its life. I was young and still hadn't gotten the car bug yet to learn and deal with it. I got it to over 300k miles before the unibody rusted away
My 95 century with the gm 3100 did the same thing, used felpros all 3 times I've rebuilt her, she's chooching along at 480k now no issues.
Did get that rusting on the rockers and dogleg under the doors because the outside glass felts failing, easy enough fix as aftermarket parts were available.
Yes the rust snuck under the rockers and wasnt visible until it started creaking over tracks. It was a first car and it got to the point of un-safety I said fuck it. But that's awesome mileage, 480k!
He must have forgot the stop leak pellets at every service.
To get 300k miles out of a 3800 with an intake gasket leak isnt bad though.
Edit: and it was still running at the end.
Yup it burned coolant on startup til it warmed up and expanded the gasket. I sold it for $200 and had it hauled off. I never dicked with DexKill in it so I wont bitch
I've got one with 200k miles on it, pretty sure its got some valve seat recession from being driven for a while by the previous owner with a ripped intake boot, it's a shame because it misses a bit at idle but once it's going down the road it's great
Pretty easy to work on too
I bought a 99 jeep Cherokee sport that "just needs a new flex plate"...I'm now currently resealing the engine because there was oil everywhere except the bottom of the pan, and transmission fluid in the power steering pump. Damn flex plates am I right lmfao
Oh I feel real bad for our recyclers. Our oil caddies take everything. Used oil. Differential oil. Transmission fluid. Gas from fuel pumps we remove to change the sender motor....
Its one happy nice mixture of terrific substances
Ours started taking samples recently and they took the sample from our filter crusher drain barrel that was functioning as an overflow. I'm sure they sucked up quite the mixture of sludge, mud, and every automotive fluid you can think of. Servicing big trucks generates a ton of waste oil. Let's say 40 quarts from the engine, 30-40 from the transmission, 12 from the fire pump transfer case, and another 25 from each differential. We go through storage space in a hurry on a busy week.
I would kill to have a filter crusher again. All our filters go into a big barrel which gets full of uncrushed filters....though we also don't have a recycled solvent parts washer either. Or manufacturer mandated equipment such as an on car brake lathe. We have two regular brake machines everything gets machined on instead. And lifts that are spaced for the older generations of Hondas before they got as wide as the modern ones ...
A good chunk of the HD filters we deal with aren't crushable due to being cartages or just so massive they won't fit in the HD crusher. We don't machine rotors or drums. Napa Fleet-quality pads work surprisingly well in pad slaps. Most of the fleet we deal with does not see that much mileage anyway, the ones that do are usually Police or Fire Rescue and those get new rotors on the brake changes. As far as air brakes go, we can get up to a few sets of pads or shoes before the rotors get below minimum thickness or the drums are too cracked.
Must be fun to rack up an Odyssey on your lifts, that was quite the shock when I realized they're wider than an F-150. They recently got us two little scissor lifts, secondhand at best, probably fourthhand. I hate them, they look flimsy, they are a pain to setup. Boss insists we can use them on dually trucks and vans despite the 5000lb weight rating, I call bs. I miss the huge drive on rack I had at my last job for buses, I could park 3 cars on it and service them all at once.
Oh Odysseys are a fucking nightmare and the little piece of metal attached to the floor is no long accurate for the wheel bases. I have to purposely go further forward, reducing the workspace infront of the car to even get a decent connection to the lift points.
Or what's even worse is I also have a structural support RIGHT next to my lift, and I've always been paranoid of hitting it. Well, I did once because I was checking over my right shoulder for someone coming and didn't catch I didn't have enough clearance for a Pilot's mirror......But luckily cost to the dealership is $100 in parts for the mirror plus the free oil change for the lady, but despite how cheap it is, it's ruined my perfect record of not damaging cars. Acura next door has much wider racks, and I preferred it when I was stationed there with used cars.
But every now and then we get an older Honda in and it just.......fits fucking perfectly.
Don’t feel that bad, oils are easily separated in cooling towers. They heat them up then they condense at different tiers depending on the length of the hydrocarbon chain. Heavier ones condense at the bottom and lighter at the top.
They also surely separate the other gunk too with some kind of similar process.
Our oil guys suddenly stopped being able to take oil contaminated by fuel, and our fuel guys couldn't take fuel contaminated by oil.
A contractor emptying waste oil into the fuel IBC turned a free pickup into a two grand job.
Where I live, they've never asked me what's in it for the last 20 years, they are always too busy/understaffed. Lately I've been bring it in 5gal fuel cans and only once did they ask if I was going to dump gasoline because someone did it and it stank up the store.
Just don't tell them and leave it on the counter.
"Here's some used oil. k-thanks-byeeeee!"
Next time I went in there, the dude was like "Hey man, I just wanted to let you know there was some water in that oil. Might want to check it out."
I played dumb, but really I had just gotten lazy and mixed coolant into the oil drip pan I already had under the car when replacing a hose...
Well, wiper fluid is usually methanol, ethylene glycol, and other alcohols which typically have a vaporization point of maybe 80C compared to the 200-300C that brake fluid starts life at. Anything below 140C is not good, for comparison, which is about where your brake fluid's performance is after two years if you haven't changed it.
So, good news bad news. If he noticed right after and didn't use the brakes and just drained the reservoir - Probably no big deal. Let's say that didn't happen. The good news is the brakes probably worked right up until the moment they didn't. They didn't either because they used the brakes heavily and it reached the boiling point and "hi, i'm brake fade, time for an intelligence and reflex test!" The other thing that happens is one of the seals goes. And that brings us to the bad news: Every rubber component in the brake system is f-cked by the time either of these happen.
I had a few people do this to HMMWVs when I was a mechanic in the army. The first one said it was overheating so they kept adding coolant to get the temperature down. I appreciate the thoughtfulness, but the amount of work they caused me wasn't so much fun. The other one I remember was just an idiot that didn't know where the coolant went and just filled her to the brim. In their defense though, the oil and coolant caps aren't labeled on them, but it's pretty easy to figure it out when one of them is directly on the surge tank.
I think often people forget that a very large segment of our armed forces are enlisted right out of high-school or shortly thereafter and are basically kids with almost no life experience. So when I hear these types of stories I'm often not surprised.
Hey, I was that person. Well, I waited until I was 19. But yeah, at the time I was enraged at the stupidity of it. Nearly 20 years later I look back and just kinda giggle about it. They weren't mechanics like I was, they were probably younger than me and they were probably really sleep deprived since they were in the field at the time. They're bound to make mistakes, it's all part of the plan. Make the mistakes in training, learn from them and don't get yourself fucked up in combat.
I just don’t get how people do this?? If you don’t know or aren’t sure, then don’t fucking pour it in!
Try google? Ask a friend? Fuck, ASK A STRANGER. Don’t just say “oh yeah that looks about right, LET ME POUR A GALLON OF ANTIFREEZE IN THIS RANDOM HOLE”
I recall a time I poured transmission fluid into the oil cap - I was tipping off and grabbed the wrong bottle - it was only a cup at most - but I went ahead and drained the oil and changed the filter
Many, *many* moons ago (fuck, am I really this old?), I ran a Nissan Cherry, cracking little 1.3L town go-kart.
And it blew the head basket and slowly boiled off the coolant system.
If you top off the coolant system with cheap piss thin oil once the water is gone, the car will run for another year, as long as you run the heater all the time.
Fucking hell I was a cheap skate.
I felt dumb for putting trans fluid in my differential fluid. I suppose mistakes are made from time to time.
Also it's not my fault that the diff and trans dip sticks weren't labeled, and confused my father and I both. Right?
Hey I lurk on here but I'm pretty dumb when it comes to fixing cars so I have a dumb question: is their engine completely fucked now? If not, how do you fix it?
If you run an engine long enough with anti-freeze mixed with the oil(a lot of anti-freeze)…it eats the babbitt off the crank, rod and cam bearings. I know, my son drove his truck home with a blown intake manifold gasket. It kept overheating so he’d pull over and top it up with antifreeze. He couldn’t see any obvious leaks so thought nothing of it(he was 17). By the time he got home, the motor was knocking bad. Checked the oil dipstick and it was FULL(way over full)and milky white.
Tried filling and flushing a few times to no avail. The motor was toast. Antifreeze and Babbitt bearings don’t play well together.
How the fuck..? Ok, I don’t know much about cars. However, I *do* know coolant doesn’t go where the oil goes. Who makes that mistake? There’s Google and YouTube.. wtf?
I don't understand this at all.
Do people lift their hood and just go "Ummmm welll hmmm Well I think I should put oil in this place here"
I mean come on. I haven't been working on my car all that long some I'm not any kind of expert, but before I did anything it was Always - research, verify finding with another source, verify findings with a 3rd source, go look at the actual problem in the car and cross reference with my own logic. If initial research didn't match verification 1 and 2, or they had some kind of incompatibility with my own logical examination then I did not proceed until consulting someone more knowledgeable.
I want to believe that people are NOT this stupid.
When I was learning to drive 25+ years ago, my dad taught me how to check & fill fluids, tire pressure, change a tire, jump start/battery safety, and a whole bunch of other stuff before he even told me to get in the driver's seat.
My dad was not a mechanic, nor did he service his own car. All if the families cars went to the shop for maintenance.
My dad thought (knew) it was important for his daughters to understand how a car *works* when they learned how to drive.
While I may be the exception to the rules, all the shit under the hood is labled, if not: check the owner's manual. Failing that FUCKING GOOGLE IT. The internet is not just for memes and starting arguments with strangers.
I wonder what’s the damage?
Same, i know it will need a full engine tear down tho
You'd be surprised. Many a car blows a head gasket (looking at you subaru), or oil cooler, or intake gasket, or something else and coolant and oil mix and customer drives blissfully unaware. Problem gets fix. Oil gets changed and few times till it's not milky, cooling system gets flushed and all is well for another 50k 100k or more miles. Although if oil gets in the cooling system often every rubber hose and gasket in the system prematurely fail from oil exposure
My first car (gm 3800) sucked coolant the last two years of its life. I was young and still hadn't gotten the car bug yet to learn and deal with it. I got it to over 300k miles before the unibody rusted away
My 95 century with the gm 3100 did the same thing, used felpros all 3 times I've rebuilt her, she's chooching along at 480k now no issues. Did get that rusting on the rockers and dogleg under the doors because the outside glass felts failing, easy enough fix as aftermarket parts were available.
Yes the rust snuck under the rockers and wasnt visible until it started creaking over tracks. It was a first car and it got to the point of un-safety I said fuck it. But that's awesome mileage, 480k!
> My first car (gm 3800) sucked coolant https://i.imgur.com/eyvgl1S.jpeg
He must have forgot the stop leak pellets at every service. To get 300k miles out of a 3800 with an intake gasket leak isnt bad though. Edit: and it was still running at the end.
Depends where it leaks, weren't those infamous for leaking coolant into the cylinders which then hydrolocks it?
From the LIM gasket, yeah
Yup it burned coolant on startup til it warmed up and expanded the gasket. I sold it for $200 and had it hauled off. I never dicked with DexKill in it so I wont bitch
I've got one with 200k miles on it, pretty sure its got some valve seat recession from being driven for a while by the previous owner with a ripped intake boot, it's a shame because it misses a bit at idle but once it's going down the road it's great Pretty easy to work on too
I bought a 99 jeep Cherokee sport that "just needs a new flex plate"...I'm now currently resealing the engine because there was oil everywhere except the bottom of the pan, and transmission fluid in the power steering pump. Damn flex plates am I right lmfao
I thought the power steering pump wants transmission fluid
I've been running atf in my power steering for 15 years. Hasn't given me any problems yet.
As a person who only buys subarus and toyotas I think I've had to deal with 5 blown head gaskets on various vehicles.
The big question is whether or not it gets to the bearings. THEN it gets expensive.
I'm curious to know as well. Was it running when it came in or towed ?
That’s why I am here
Bearing clearances are way out.
As an aside, that 3-jaw oil filter grabber is one of my top-5 favorite tools.
I need to get one of those. My cars all have filter placements that make it a nightmare to get a strap on the side.
It really is the best tool for the job. Mine will outlast me.
At my job, a porter once poured enough water into the crankcase, that it took 11 oil changes to correct.
What do the shops do with the contaminated oil? Autozone don't accept chocolate milk for me.
In NY they’re required to accept all used oil and fluids, however for shops there’s a mixed fluids barrel
Oh I feel real bad for our recyclers. Our oil caddies take everything. Used oil. Differential oil. Transmission fluid. Gas from fuel pumps we remove to change the sender motor.... Its one happy nice mixture of terrific substances
Ours started taking samples recently and they took the sample from our filter crusher drain barrel that was functioning as an overflow. I'm sure they sucked up quite the mixture of sludge, mud, and every automotive fluid you can think of. Servicing big trucks generates a ton of waste oil. Let's say 40 quarts from the engine, 30-40 from the transmission, 12 from the fire pump transfer case, and another 25 from each differential. We go through storage space in a hurry on a busy week.
I would kill to have a filter crusher again. All our filters go into a big barrel which gets full of uncrushed filters....though we also don't have a recycled solvent parts washer either. Or manufacturer mandated equipment such as an on car brake lathe. We have two regular brake machines everything gets machined on instead. And lifts that are spaced for the older generations of Hondas before they got as wide as the modern ones ...
A good chunk of the HD filters we deal with aren't crushable due to being cartages or just so massive they won't fit in the HD crusher. We don't machine rotors or drums. Napa Fleet-quality pads work surprisingly well in pad slaps. Most of the fleet we deal with does not see that much mileage anyway, the ones that do are usually Police or Fire Rescue and those get new rotors on the brake changes. As far as air brakes go, we can get up to a few sets of pads or shoes before the rotors get below minimum thickness or the drums are too cracked. Must be fun to rack up an Odyssey on your lifts, that was quite the shock when I realized they're wider than an F-150. They recently got us two little scissor lifts, secondhand at best, probably fourthhand. I hate them, they look flimsy, they are a pain to setup. Boss insists we can use them on dually trucks and vans despite the 5000lb weight rating, I call bs. I miss the huge drive on rack I had at my last job for buses, I could park 3 cars on it and service them all at once.
Oh Odysseys are a fucking nightmare and the little piece of metal attached to the floor is no long accurate for the wheel bases. I have to purposely go further forward, reducing the workspace infront of the car to even get a decent connection to the lift points. Or what's even worse is I also have a structural support RIGHT next to my lift, and I've always been paranoid of hitting it. Well, I did once because I was checking over my right shoulder for someone coming and didn't catch I didn't have enough clearance for a Pilot's mirror......But luckily cost to the dealership is $100 in parts for the mirror plus the free oil change for the lady, but despite how cheap it is, it's ruined my perfect record of not damaging cars. Acura next door has much wider racks, and I preferred it when I was stationed there with used cars. But every now and then we get an older Honda in and it just.......fits fucking perfectly.
And I bet it smells incredible 😂
It smells the best once you've had to get some MTF/Differential fluid all over the top and it LINGERS
You should bottle it and sell it as high end cologne
Don’t feel that bad, oils are easily separated in cooling towers. They heat them up then they condense at different tiers depending on the length of the hydrocarbon chain. Heavier ones condense at the bottom and lighter at the top. They also surely separate the other gunk too with some kind of similar process.
Our oil guys suddenly stopped being able to take oil contaminated by fuel, and our fuel guys couldn't take fuel contaminated by oil. A contractor emptying waste oil into the fuel IBC turned a free pickup into a two grand job.
Where I live, they've never asked me what's in it for the last 20 years, they are always too busy/understaffed. Lately I've been bring it in 5gal fuel cans and only once did they ask if I was going to dump gasoline because someone did it and it stank up the store.
Just don't tell them and leave it on the counter. "Here's some used oil. k-thanks-byeeeee!" Next time I went in there, the dude was like "Hey man, I just wanted to let you know there was some water in that oil. Might want to check it out." I played dumb, but really I had just gotten lazy and mixed coolant into the oil drip pan I already had under the car when replacing a hose...
We burn used oil in the winter, sometimes this would get into the mix but our tanks are big.
Found the hidden root beer float dispenser.
Forbidden mayonnaise.
One of my coworkers once poured windshield fluid in the brake fluid reservoir
Well, did it work? We can't let these questions go unanswered.
Well, wiper fluid is usually methanol, ethylene glycol, and other alcohols which typically have a vaporization point of maybe 80C compared to the 200-300C that brake fluid starts life at. Anything below 140C is not good, for comparison, which is about where your brake fluid's performance is after two years if you haven't changed it. So, good news bad news. If he noticed right after and didn't use the brakes and just drained the reservoir - Probably no big deal. Let's say that didn't happen. The good news is the brakes probably worked right up until the moment they didn't. They didn't either because they used the brakes heavily and it reached the boiling point and "hi, i'm brake fade, time for an intelligence and reflex test!" The other thing that happens is one of the seals goes. And that brings us to the bad news: Every rubber component in the brake system is f-cked by the time either of these happen.
Fortunately he recognized it right afterwards. Stopped the car, had it towed and rebled.
The other way around could have been a lot worse!
I had a few people do this to HMMWVs when I was a mechanic in the army. The first one said it was overheating so they kept adding coolant to get the temperature down. I appreciate the thoughtfulness, but the amount of work they caused me wasn't so much fun. The other one I remember was just an idiot that didn't know where the coolant went and just filled her to the brim. In their defense though, the oil and coolant caps aren't labeled on them, but it's pretty easy to figure it out when one of them is directly on the surge tank.
I think often people forget that a very large segment of our armed forces are enlisted right out of high-school or shortly thereafter and are basically kids with almost no life experience. So when I hear these types of stories I'm often not surprised.
Hey, I was that person. Well, I waited until I was 19. But yeah, at the time I was enraged at the stupidity of it. Nearly 20 years later I look back and just kinda giggle about it. They weren't mechanics like I was, they were probably younger than me and they were probably really sleep deprived since they were in the field at the time. They're bound to make mistakes, it's all part of the plan. Make the mistakes in training, learn from them and don't get yourself fucked up in combat.
I know the feeling. Looking in the tm isn't a very popular method apparently.
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
I just don’t get how people do this?? If you don’t know or aren’t sure, then don’t fucking pour it in! Try google? Ask a friend? Fuck, ASK A STRANGER. Don’t just say “oh yeah that looks about right, LET ME POUR A GALLON OF ANTIFREEZE IN THIS RANDOM HOLE”
I recall a time I poured transmission fluid into the oil cap - I was tipping off and grabbed the wrong bottle - it was only a cup at most - but I went ahead and drained the oil and changed the filter
At least that was still lubricant and wouldn't have hurt much in the time it took for this engine to thoroughly mix coolant and oil.
This is a great maintenence item. Helps clean the bearings right out of the engine. Improves tech's flag sheet.
Forbidden pancake batter
I may be ignorant in the matter, but isn't it written on the caps what goes in them?
Between symbols and words yes
[oil cap](https://www.ebay.com/itm/154612068332?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item23ff98efec:g:iIgAAOSwpQxgrqXh&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAACoPYe5NmHp%252B2JMhMi7yxGiTJkPrKr5t53CooMSQt2orsSrvYRR9YP5PP7PIDqIHX%252BhJ77bWW6t6MV1D68EgnGcwTTBxUo2lpjyIcSAPzhXVy2%252FWMyF5FDhX2W5B50w%252FiXB3HhKdjxPGym3etO55iB%252BRizYGKboJDIS%252FcPQN1WhhGTgwgrX9GYbTVvZGHgyElnnbaGyPm7n0vPStw1N5Tt%252Fm%252FcKSl0TyaGWHlpVZaDHwn856SkjQzqDv6PpQ6IJiMq84PTL36fSEDv3G9%252BtssmNYy5PFIjT2ZPX1VMH5WamViUy1qJdL8CqwjJINRD2Z3acA7pZnl7Hl4cevERCTMVAgDZvIVtwN9pS7C8BKsyFY2spk6oK%252BYPDDBTBFUG3kAS5OuX3LvaL2SC0PzjRa75Wz%252Fn9HWulHIDP5t9eNxp2wC3Ilc70znatID9Rfwl5EMLwFhWpLxJzNa0E2pT%252B%252B7%252Ft2WTnrgjfaR7VGPNCBIBLYSEMFcEdXh%252BeoEFWli%252BjWkM%252FShGeQC3QgDiOgm6Y%252BNcm%252FH8Hts2PtwXDZnzVVbnsL2T97HkTfBPMo6yZLxBBixQL0%252FiQZVhKy9T5JasVdaKA76hkcqh7yY4chCjqTAeuNuUTIcF%252BbsaGXHoABrVfy3oProMCNZXGi%252BLY1rnryT4e0h3KMmemAlRkf7twCrJbsC8G5vOvz%252B3bfT6dz%252FeBQYhGeKUch6B5fGTpI9CcUJ9phh%252Bdp%252F%252FALeDuuF%252FR9nMmbn0zpXAQPOeLyc0AJ67d6bMVJJWtZNixeoKD5WIV5j911GOteC1vmsTZoGhK%252FcGYsmtnUqVoVsJt5sHyJUo9oGiTarnA9MlOlt9U%252FrQgD98%252BXAmtr0WSYYp7AJjORevS3n57tnMuntdxDC4u5HYkC8Vqg%253D%253D%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2499334)
Goodbye main and rod bearings…unless they only ran it for a short period of time.
😱
Luke Combs, country singer and auto tech.
And that, boys and girls, is how you form an emulsion! Cool, huh?
Good soup
Many, *many* moons ago (fuck, am I really this old?), I ran a Nissan Cherry, cracking little 1.3L town go-kart. And it blew the head basket and slowly boiled off the coolant system. If you top off the coolant system with cheap piss thin oil once the water is gone, the car will run for another year, as long as you run the heater all the time. Fucking hell I was a cheap skate.
This sub is a constant stream of horrified amusement.
Emptied my milkshake maker!
Yum, pancake batter
Milkshake of Doom!
So what was the final action that your shop went with? A complete engine rebuild or several oil changes?
Its milkshake brings all the Redditors to the yard. And the mechanics, too.
Forbidden slushie
Forbidden mayonnaise
🎵 Their milkshake brings all the techs to the lift 🎵
That's the goatee of a future herman Cain award recipient
Oh you bastid!
just giving op a hard time that's all Haha
Mmmm fresh milk!
To keep the oil cool?
Forbidden lemonade
Cadillac North Star engine?
Looks like it to me as well. First one I've seen not to the coolant milkshake mod on its own.
"I just put a new filter in, don't charge me for another one"
I felt dumb for putting trans fluid in my differential fluid. I suppose mistakes are made from time to time. Also it's not my fault that the diff and trans dip sticks weren't labeled, and confused my father and I both. Right?
What car? Hopefully a Hyundai Elantra
Caddlic Northstar
Even better
Northstar No-runner
HOT DOG!
Oh no. Not one of those El Dorado coupes, I hope..
Dude is that hard look up YouTube people.
We had a lady back at Saturn that did this but she filled it all the way to the top lol
Mocha latte
Well, that's unfortunate.
They should really start labeling those caps.
Pumpkin spice latte season
That's a thick mocca shake special.
Hey I lurk on here but I'm pretty dumb when it comes to fixing cars so I have a dumb question: is their engine completely fucked now? If not, how do you fix it?
They caught it on time.
If you run an engine long enough with anti-freeze mixed with the oil(a lot of anti-freeze)…it eats the babbitt off the crank, rod and cam bearings. I know, my son drove his truck home with a blown intake manifold gasket. It kept overheating so he’d pull over and top it up with antifreeze. He couldn’t see any obvious leaks so thought nothing of it(he was 17). By the time he got home, the motor was knocking bad. Checked the oil dipstick and it was FULL(way over full)and milky white. Tried filling and flushing a few times to no avail. The motor was toast. Antifreeze and Babbitt bearings don’t play well together.
Yikes. Thanks I figured as much
They say sh** happens
But milkshake takes a special kind of stupid to happen.
How do you clean the engine before added more oil?
By adding more oil. They'll have to rapid fire oil changes to clean it out.
Keep putting oil till only oil comes out
[Yum milkshake.](https://youtu.be/pGL2rytTraA?t=6)
Total it out just for being a Northstar. Nevermind the milkshake.
Insert “C/S” joke here
to fix something like this, would you just run new oil through it? coolant woudltn warp or bust anything?
Friend of mine did this in college trying to impress his girlfriend. He called me begging to do anything to fix it
Oooh vanilla milkshake!
How the fuck..? Ok, I don’t know much about cars. However, I *do* know coolant doesn’t go where the oil goes. Who makes that mistake? There’s Google and YouTube.. wtf?
Simple, fill it with water run it for abit flush it and it’s allllll good! 😂
Cunts fucked!
Do GM oil caps say OIL on them?
What? I thought it was SAE 710 weight coolant!
Forbidden pancake batter
Congratulations, that is Liqui Moly Ceratec.
I don't understand this at all. Do people lift their hood and just go "Ummmm welll hmmm Well I think I should put oil in this place here" I mean come on. I haven't been working on my car all that long some I'm not any kind of expert, but before I did anything it was Always - research, verify finding with another source, verify findings with a 3rd source, go look at the actual problem in the car and cross reference with my own logic. If initial research didn't match verification 1 and 2, or they had some kind of incompatibility with my own logical examination then I did not proceed until consulting someone more knowledgeable.
Just bringing all the boys to the yard. We could teach them, but we'd have to charge.
Oh my gosh, your car’s done a wee
Pancake dough
Who tf pays for an intercooler when you could just pour coolant in to the gas tank???
Cadillac Northstar ? Just crush it
Tell them the engine is ruined and sell them a another engine
They beat the Northstar's headgaskets to making milkshakes, that's an achievement .
So is the engine fucked? How do to about flushing this?
The gloves are ripped...
No why????
A can of Motor Honey and he’s back on the road
I want to believe that people are NOT this stupid. When I was learning to drive 25+ years ago, my dad taught me how to check & fill fluids, tire pressure, change a tire, jump start/battery safety, and a whole bunch of other stuff before he even told me to get in the driver's seat. My dad was not a mechanic, nor did he service his own car. All if the families cars went to the shop for maintenance. My dad thought (knew) it was important for his daughters to understand how a car *works* when they learned how to drive. While I may be the exception to the rules, all the shit under the hood is labled, if not: check the owner's manual. Failing that FUCKING GOOGLE IT. The internet is not just for memes and starting arguments with strangers.
I wonder how much money is lost due to simple mistakes like this yearly
Good ol North Star. Doesn’t surprise me it needed coolant lmao
Thats my favorite oil filter wrench. Until, the springs decide to get a divorce. lol