Sludged up 1.8t

Post away.

TBerk

I'm interested!!

No, I definitely don't want to see it, but I'll probably look anyway.

nate

if they used synthetic it's probably not even that bad...

TBerk

Sure! I'd love to see it (as long as it's not MY car...)

Rob Guenther wrote:

As promised:

:-( Eww.....

The Volvo I saw was like this only worse... They took the oil pan off and exposed some internal workings on the bottom side of the engine (crankshaft I suppose). The oil had burnt/sludged a bit worse then this looked - The clue to the problem was an oil pressure light coming on, the owner thought the light indicated the car was due for an oil change (funny since there IS a service reminder, but it goes out after 30 seconds... maybe they thought it was only a suggestion)

One of the turbos had stopped spinning due to lack of oil pressure!

What was the story from the owner of this unfortunate Passat?

A man of his word! I like that! ;-)

I have seen sludge like that on many different engines. I saw it bad on a Gremlin I-6 with 95k miles on it. It had never had an oil change nor tune up according to the original owner. After an expensive cleanup the engine was fine again

What can you do to clean these engines up now Woodchuck? And what does the oil pan look like?

Thanks for sharing this with us. ;-)

later, dave (One out of many Daves)

so will you be shooting the owner now or later?

what kind of idoit would do that to a VW... poor car...

-Lee

I wonder if Woodchuck could give us a hint to which gender this car belongs to. :-)))

Gender no longer matters when it comes to service requirements. At our place I think more woman are more concerned with keeping their cars serviced. However I do know woman are more likely to read the manual. Remember men done ask for driving directions(lol)!

Not sure if it was, didn't ask, no one mentioned either way.

In talking to guys and girls about cars, I find that both parties can be pretty negligent in some ways... My female friends don't know how to change a tire, and get their fathers/brothers/boyfriends to check air pressure in the tires/oil level and stuff like that, but they seem to be able to read the oil change stickers, one questioned their balding set of tires before their male partener... I find guys either care about cars, or they don't give a damn at all.... The ones that don't care just seem to fill up with gas, never check the oil, chage the oil when they remember it might be a good idea, don't repair minor problems until they become big problems (I know someone who drove a Cavalier with a known leaking water pump for 2 years, a guy with a rad that was leaking so bad in a Buick he was pouring in

4 litres of tap water per day into it to keep the level up - finally got the rad PATCHED (not replaced, patched), and I know of another guy who had 1 working brake, 3 shocks that were shot, 1 good one installed because it was the only one that literally blew up and leaked like crazy, 4 different tires on the car etc etc etc.... And you tell them to fix their cars, but they don't even care, they say "why, it runs" and walk away).

I know a woman who, about twenty years ago, bought a brand-new car and had no idea that oil changes, or even top-ups were required -- don't think she even knew there was oil in the engine. She just drove it until there was no oil left, at which point there was no engine left, either. She had no idea!

I know a woman who drives a 5+ year old Nissan Sentra that's still on it's original oil (she bought it new). My repeated suggestions to have the oil changed were ignored for the first few years and I've since stopped bothering.

I have a friend who put 19,000 miles on the original oil in his Toyota pickup 'cause he thought the factory oil was better.

Craig