: As long as the warning light works, and didn't come on, the engine has still : been receiving oil, so there's a good chance that the low oil level hasn't : caused any damage.
Particularly since/if it has only been used for short trips.
Ian
Preservation of your bank balance is good a reason as any. This may apply even if you have one of those fangled oil level sensor thingies as some of mine have. There are many other maintenance items which should be seen to on a daily or weekly basis, some of them safety related. Have you checked these in the last five months?
Huw
: > : Yes, thats how diesels are. So you last checked the oil FOUR MONTHS : > : AGO? Its supposed to be a WEEKLY check. : >
: > I haven't checked the oil in my Citroen for five months. Why should I?
: Preservation of your bank balance is good a reason as any. This may apply : even if you have one of those fangled oil level sensor thingies as some of : mine have. There are many other maintenance items which should be seen to : on a daily or weekly basis, some of them safety related. Have you checked : these in the last five months?
Nope. Though I did have a quick look at the LHM level about five weeks ago. It was fine.
Ian
Your negligence will surely bite your arse some day. I hope nobody gets hurt when it does. What are you doing reading this forum when you can't be arsed to do even the basics?
Huw
: Your negligence will surely bite your arse some day. I hope nobody gets hurt : when it does. : What are you doing reading this forum when you can't be arsed to do even the : basics?
I really can't see any reason at all why I should have checked the oil. The tyres all look fine.
Ian
You may want to go find a Focus and try it. It looks alarmingly like oil smoke.
NO IT'S NOT.
Want to have a shout back? Get rid of all that aggression?
My experience (all petrol until my current car) leads me to think that diesels use LESS oil than petrols. In 3.5 years, mine has drunk no oil and the top-up can I bought when the car was new has rusted away now!!
Also, I have an Alfa 156 2.4 JTD and the petrol Alfas are known to drink oil in many cases. YMMV.
Because losing oil stuffs your engine. Mayonnaise on the oil shows you have a water leak. Excessivly thin oil shows you are blowing fuel into the oil (less common these days). Oil should be checked weekly, daily if you get chance.
Tyres - looked for cuts, bulges. Inboard side as well as outboard? Tyres take months to go flat - they take abuse that isn't seen and never rectified until they suddenly decry "enough" and go pop on the motorway at
POWER - Petrol, Oil,Water, Electrics, Rubber. Check every day. Do a static brake test every time you start. Makes things a lot lot safer.
No - they will take the same current as the resistance of the individual plugs won't change. The ones that blow will reduce the total current drawn though.
: > I really can't see any reason at all why I should have checked the : > oil. The tyres all look fine. : : Tyres - looked for cuts, bulges. Inboard side as well as outboard?
Nah. They're holiding the thing off the ground, and to be honest, that's all I care about at the moment.
: POWER - Petrol, Oil,Water, Electrics, Rubber. Check every day. Do a static : brake test every time you start. Makes things a lot lot safer.
Every day? Good grief - I wasn't planning to do /any/ of these for another month.
Ian
Can you let me know what roads you usualy drive on so I can make a note to avoid them please.
_All_, apparently, according to my garage.
All sorted now, thanks for the replies! ;-)
A new set of glow plugs and 1 1/2 litres of oil, and it may just be me imagining it, but it seems to start better now than it ever did.
Cheers,
-bernie.
Tongue in cheek I hope. Weekly for virtually everything on that list bar possibly electrics for me.
: > Every day? Good grief - I wasn't planning to do /any/ of these for : > another month.
: Can you let me know what roads you usualy drive on so I can make a note to : avoid them please.
In that care, mainly the A75 and various motorways.
Ian
PS OK, I'll let you off the hook. She's laid up for the winter. All these checks depend on how many miles you do... And yes, she'll be getting a very thorough check before I start blasting around in her again about easter!
By electrics the acronym actually means make sure all the bulbs work and the battery isn't flat. Not digging round under the bonnet continuity testing every wire in sight...:-)
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Certainly mine does. Even at 180,000 I don't get to top it up between
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Often see tyre pressure patrols on French motorways - just after the tolls they nab you and check 'em.
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Do look after it now though, won't you.
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I find having a seven year old boy give me plenty of reason to check the bits. He likes to help and it's a good chance to shove some good habits in.
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