long story short. I recently go into an automobile accident (other parties
fault). No engine damage, all cosmetics, front end colliision, final bill was a
little more then 6k of repairs. Took the car to a trusted insurance repair shop
that he insurance recommended me , 2 weeks for the repairs, I picked up the car
and drove off the lot and immediately engine died, oil light went on.
Insurance company tows my vehicle back in. I am now making disputes with the
insurance company, and repair company, about if the engine failure is my fault
or car accidents fault. We take it in for a dodge dealership for diagnostic.
Diagnostic shows that my vehicle has been portly maintained, and I have oil gunk
build up which block some kind of screen which prevented the oil passage and my
engine seized along with my rod 1 and now I need a new engine. My question now
is I have been maintaining my vehicle, I had the vehicle little more then 2
years, and i been doing my maintenance at jiffylube, about every 5-8k miles
synthetic. Since I got my vehicle.. it is a 2007 charger. Can oil sludge
residue build up if oil maintenances has been done routinely? Because at this
moment I feel like I am being burned
How many miles on the car before you got it? Service records?
Synthetic? Which engine?
If it was neglected brfore you got it, (8 years of neglect cannot be
undone easily) anything is possible, and what oil was Jiffy putting
in?? Usually the cheapest they can get. Also what filter?? Which
engine?
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065b0505594b06f549b8b6640ba408f1 snipped-for-privacy@example.com says...
Seems likely that Jiffy was charging you for synthetic, but putting in
the crappiest stuff they could. I saw a 2006's Ram's hemi torn down
recently at 240K on Mobil 1 and it was pretty much spotless inside. It
was having it's second timing chain replacement and it needed new
exhaust valves, so it was torn down and bearings, etc, done too while
the heads were out. Any engine I've ever seen on full synthetic was very
clean inside regardless of time or mileage.
I got the vehicle at 85k miles, currently has about119k. Prior before I baught
the vehicle it has been through a 125 point inspection. I put synthetic oil, as
far as oil filter whatever jiffylube recommends, my car is the base 3.5L v6.
Also, is it possible if my oil filter is full of sludge when I did my oil and
oil filter about 3k miles ago? Because the dodge diagnostics there is sludge all
in my oil filter
Here are some pictures.. I got the vehicle around 85k.. prior for my purchase
it went through a 125 point inspection. Currently has 119k miles. I use
synthetic oil, with whatever jiffylube oil filter they recommends. Also, i did
an oil change along with the oil filter 3k miles ago, can oil sludge build that
fast because the oil filter is full of sludge
The repair shop replaced my condenser, radiator, trans cooler, can this link to
my engine?
Because the oil filter does not look like sludge but it looks like burnt
composite?
Whoever did your 125 point inspection was blind. You bought a sludged
up engine - likely didn't get regular oil changes, and used the
cheapest oil he could get. 85000 miles of that left a lot of sludge -
and the synthetic disolved some over 24000 miles, and loosened some of
the rest, which blocked your oil pickup and stuffed your filter. You
were "had" on the inspection and no matter how good a deal you got on
the car you over-paid.
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065b0505594b06f549b8b6640ba408f1 snipped-for-privacy@example.com says...
The inspections done by dealers are suspicious at best, and often
totally untrue. Never buy anything without giving it a look over
yourself, or, if you don't know what to look for, take it to a garage
and pay the $100 bucks that almost surely would have told you that the
engine was full of sludge.
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065b0505594b06f549b8b6640ba408f1 snipped-for-privacy@example.com says...
Nope. Any problems with the radiator or trans cooler would have been
obvious. Like coolant in your oil or trans fluid in your coolant.
From what I can see in the pics, it looks like plain old sludge to me.
Seems like you got burned. I would bet anything that it was sludged up
already when you bought it.
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