Any experience of this on here??

[whitevanman]

Right, I have a car here that has been over filled with oil, creating a James Bond style smoke screen. I have now sorted out the oil level and up untill 3000 rpm all is clear at the exhaust pipe now, over 3000rpm it's still a bit smokey though it does clear after about 30 seconds...anyone know how long it's likely to take for the crap to finish burning up and give me a clear exhaust?

[Station]

If it works, don't worry!

 

Can imagine there's oil in the breather pipes still. A little bit can make a lot of smoke (put a drop on the exhaust pipe to see how much).

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I had to drive my Volvo for about 2 miles before it stopped chugging shite out the back like a Norfolk Line ferry, following one of my regular 'sump full of fuel' incidents a few months ago.

[whitevanman]

Cheers guys Run it as is then I guess..........

[theorganist]

I have a very embarrasing experience of over filling with oil.

 

I had a Maestro diesel. I had checked the oil and it was showing very little on the dipstick so I put a load in and checked again and it was fine. What I hadn't realised that I hadn't pushed the dipstick down far enough.

 

Anyway I was driving along and suddenly the engine started racing and the car was shrouded in thick smoke. I pulled over, turned off the ignition and me and mum jumped out of the car and ran. The engine was still revving away and I was standing several yards away holding the ignition keys in my hand. The car was totally shrouded in thick smoke now and several motorists had stopped. One called the fire brigade and two fire engines came to the scene. By then the engine had stopped running and the smoke had cleared and I was looking very embarrased. There was loads of oil over the road, which the fire brigade cleaned up.

 

The AA came and towed me home, the engine was covered in oil. Apparently the excess oil had leaked onto the clutch, and that I was lucky in that it was a diesel.

 

I felt like a right wally

 

Pete.

[dollywobbler]

I have a very embarrasing experience of over filling with oil.

 

I had a Maestro diesel. I had checked the oil and it was showing very little on the dipstick so I put a load in and checked again and it was fine. What I hadn't realised that I hadn't pushed the dipstick down far enough.

 

Anyway I was driving along and suddenly the engine started racing and the car was shrouded in thick smoke. I pulled over, turned off the ignition and me and mum jumped out of the car and ran. The engine was still revving away and I was standing several yards away holding the ignition keys in my hand. The car was totally shrouded in thick smoke now and several motorists had stopped. One called the fire brigade and two fire engines came to the scene. By then the engine had stopped running and the smoke had cleared and I was looking very embarrased. There was loads of oil over the road, which the fire brigade cleaned up.

 

The AA came and towed me home, the engine was covered in oil. Apparently the excess oil had leaked onto the clutch, and that I was lucky in that it was a diesel.

 

I felt like a right wally

 

Pete.

If the engine was revving without the key, more likely that oil was somehow getting past the pistons and it was then running on the engine oil! I knew a BX that used to do this after clocking up 250,000 miles with a handful of services.

[wuvvum]

Yep, one of my Troopers did something similar on the A11 once while dragging a 323 Turbo on a trailer. That was caused by the seals in the turbo letting go, causing the oil from the sump to be drawn into the cylinders. It was smoking like an absolute bastard. I pulled off the dual carriageway and stopped in a layby, then stuck it in 5th and dumped the clutch, which stalled it. Tried starting it again ten minutes later and it immediately started to run away again, but once the AA had towed it home and it'd had a chance to cool down it was OK - I sold it sharpish.

[wuvvum]

I was lucky in that it was a diesel.

Not really - a petrol engine wouldn't have run away like that as petrol engines won't run on engine oil. A petrol engine would have chucked out a load of blue smoke, but it would have carried on running happily unless the plugs oiled up.

[Pillock]

Isn't this also a common trait of a fairly recent Renault dci engine, that a valve somewhere lets go and the engine starts running on it's own sump oil, regardless of whether it's switched on or not?

 

I've gotta say, the thought of that scares me! I can deal with most vehicular emergencies but runaway car is not on that list.

[fiatdaft]

common on any diesel that has a knackered turbo or been over filled with oil.

 

 

[Father Ted]

Land Rover ePic Fail.

Must be heartbraking waiting for the BANG

[fiatdaft]

probably be easier to stall it,unless its an auto of course.

[MrDuke]

A 'friend' of mine once checked the oil on his Mk3 Cavalier V6 while it was parked on a steep hill. (For background reference, this is the same person who doused his Beetle engine in WD40 while it was running and set fire to it... he also used to stick random metal objects into wall sockets for amusement ) Anyway, seeing it was 'empty', he poured around 6 litres of oil into it, then took it for a rather spirited blast around some lanes. According to the garage who recovered it, he blew out nearly every single seal/gasket on the engine.