learned lesson today...

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:33 pm

yesterday i decided to detail my engine and bay and spent roughly 3 hours scrubbing and polishing and making everything look pretty.

i took my oil cap off to clean it and put it back on... just not correctly.

while driving around today i thought the car smelled a little different and then while pulling out of wal-mart... realized i had smoke coming from out of the engine bay.

i pulled over to find oil on the entire driver's side of the engine and bay...

why does this kinda stuff happen. i lost over 2 qrts of oil too.

at least no major harm was done

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:42 pm

yep, had this happen to me too.

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:08 pm

man that sucks.. and the three hours of cleaning was a total waste

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:08 pm

yeah... i even used a buffer and mothers polish on the cam cover

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:59 pm

Audacityracing wrote:yeah... i even used a buffer and mothers polish on the cam cover

wow.. even if oil didnt get all over your engine bay was that even worth it? lol.. seriously though. If i clean my engine bay really really well.. maybe spend 30-45mins on it it doesnt even take two weeks to look like crap again

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:16 pm

haha... forgot to mention i don't clean it but like once a year... haha.

but it looks pretty when it's all polished up

BosnianLanos · Post by **BosnianLanos** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:04 pm

Happened to me twice. Once when I didn't tighten it correctly and once when my dipstick shot out.

It does suck.

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:08 pm

happened to me once when the ass hole at the DMV forgot to put back the dip stick after taking the engine's serial no.

MMamdouh

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:06 pm

lol yeah I only do mine a few times a year, but then again I only got to drive my woo for about 5 weeks in the past two years

DomWoo · Post by **DomWoo** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:29 pm

daewooluvr wrote:lol yeah I only do mine a few times a year, but then again I only got to drive my woo for about 5 weeks in the past two years

i think i drove my car once this year and none last yeare

lol... when i was installing all the turbo stoff for the first time i took the oil filter off because it was in the way and later that day i wanted to fire it up for a few seconds to see how the exhaust sounded.. but i didnt put the filter back on.. all most all my oil was emptied in a mater of 2 seconds.. i still have oil all over stuff in the car