My female friend has a Toyota Camry 4 cylinder with around 133K. She had it serviced 2 weeks ago and they changed the oil. It was leaking something recently (we thought it was anti-freeze). The people who serviced it 2 weeks ago took a look at the car and said it was missing an oil cap and down to 2 quarts of oil. Could the lack of a cap cause the oil to get too low and then cause a "cracked engine head"? Is that same as a cylinder head?
What I don't understand is that my friend says there was no indication that the engine overheated and no oil check light was lit up on the dash. Seems to me that if it really were true that the lack of an oil cap (negligence) caused the car to lose oil and crack the engine, then something on the dashboard should have lit up beforehand, which my friend says did not happen. I don't know what to make of the whole thing. What do you think?
J