 What happens when you put in too much oil?, The dealership did... |
 Jul 16, 2004 - 8:06 AM
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When I changed my oil for the first time, I noticed that while the manual says to put in something like 4 quarts, I actually drained about 5 quarts of existing oil. After 3000 miles, could that much extra oil damage something... like, oh, I don't know... the valve seals? I know you guys say the valve seals are a common problem, but it's a problem the car didn't have at the time I bought it, and I've only put about 3000 miles on it since then (most of which was during the time it had too much oil.)
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Jul 16, 2004 - 10:25 AM
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Well, everyone says it's not broken, but I don't like the idea of burning oil every time I start my car. After putting in 4 quarts of oil maybe 500 miles ago, the dipstick reads dangerously low. If it's a fix I can do easily, I'd rather do that than have to constantly feed it oil.
Heh. Then again, changing the oil and the plug wires was a challenge for me... *edit: Yeah, I was one of those people who posted about blue smoke on startup. This post has been edited by CoolDoctorJ: Jul 16, 2004 - 10:26 AM |
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CoolDoctorJ What happens when you put in too much oil? Jul 16, 2004 - 8:06 AM
97Celica I have always put like 4.5 Quarts in. And make sur... Jul 16, 2004 - 8:11 AM Supersprynt Usually the pan can hold X amount of qts and then ... Jul 16, 2004 - 8:13 AM turboinduction I'm normally around 4.5 qts. Basically, 4 qts... Jul 16, 2004 - 8:29 AM CoolDoctorJ How easy is it to just "take off the valve co... Jul 16, 2004 - 9:50 AM turboinduction Simple but time consuming. Thats all. Normally i... Jul 16, 2004 - 10:07 AM turboinduction Again, you should have 4.5 qts in the Celica. Tha... Jul 16, 2004 - 10:40 AM Four QUOTE (97Celica @ Jul 16, 2004 - 6:11 AM) I have a... Jul 17, 2004 - 1:57 AM brianforster yeah i changed my oil less tha ntwo months ago wit... Jul 17, 2004 - 9:24 AM Cormudgen QUOTE (Four @ Jul 16, 2004 - 11:57 PM) QUOTE (97Ce... Jul 17, 2004 - 10:21 AM Digndoug about the synthetic.. Its a cleaner oil.. There fo... Jul 17, 2004 - 10:57 AM SlowCelica94 If you add too much oil (servel qt more) then the ... Jul 17, 2004 - 11:15 AM Anub1s If to much oil is inside of the engine, you could ... Jul 17, 2004 - 3:10 PM Digndoug I was only talkign about 1/2-1 quart to much not 4... Jul 17, 2004 - 4:06 PM Anub1s QUOTE (Digndoug @ Jul 17, 2004 - 9:06 PM) I was on... Jul 17, 2004 - 4:29 PM slipgun Im very happy with synthetic as well. I find the c... Jul 18, 2004 - 6:54 PM Anub1s ^ very true. One thing that I could add is that re... Jul 18, 2004 - 7:25 PM Digndoug QUOTE (canyonking @ Jul 17, 2004 - 9:29 PM) QUOTE ... Jul 18, 2004 - 7:43 PM celicaboston1983 i thought out cars only needed 4qts Jul 18, 2004 - 8:51 PM CoolDoctorJ Holy cow, this thread took off while I wasn't ... Jul 18, 2004 - 10:39 PM Rjb23 Mixing regular and synthetic is bad for 2 reasons.... Jul 18, 2004 - 11:16 PM fastgt i THINK the exact amount for our cars is like 3.75... Jul 19, 2004 - 9:46 PM 97GTinKC Too much will cause trouble, if its full enough to... Jul 20, 2004 - 12:14 AM 97GTinKC As for synthetic oil, it actually will leave a fil... Jul 20, 2004 - 9:57 AM
wht95st-02gtivr6 if you put to much oil in your car it dosent just ... Jul 20, 2004 - 5:03 PM |
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