brake fluid in eng9ine

It'll be fine. Things don't wear that fast .

I hope so !

Step on the engine and see if the car stops. (Sorry) ;-)

Your son in-law could have just kept his mouth closed and said nothing. Telling you about it must mean something about his honesty and lessen the blow somewhat. Perhaps a flushing oil would remove any traces from oil seals etc. If I recall correctly, brake fluid caused normal seals to swell.

Gio

I'd have thought if you need to keep oil with the car for topping up purposes, the engine hasn't got that much life left anyway?

You've never had an Alfa 156 1.8 have you?

-- James

Or anything that's ever been near VW

No. And I can't remember when last I had a car that couldn't do a day's driving without needing oil. It would fail an MOT anyway.

Change the oil and filter - hopefully no damage done

Bill

Well mine needs a top up every 600 miles. & that passed it's MOT easily.

It goes from 'full' to 'empty' in 600 miles? How much oil does it take to top up?

Not quite that bad - but you can go from 'max' to 'min' in around 1000 miles. Which is one of the reasons Alfa have a poor reputation for reliability - there's a lot of numpties out there that don't check the oil between the 9k miles service intervals.

A litre.

My '84 SD1 has a low oil level warning - not that it ever needs it. So have my last few BMWs. Oh - and the one Bentley I ever owned - made in '57. If you make an engine which 'uses' oil, I'd say it makes sense to fit one.

Yeah - I don't understand why it's missing these days. My 75 has a level light (currently permanently lit due to a duff sensor) and a pressure dial.

Unfortunately, it seems that manufacturers are constantly dumbing-down their cars, and stuff which I'd say is pretty vital to monitor the health of the oily bits is now being missed off. (Hence the number of cars out there with only a light to tell you the car has overheated, rather than a gauge)