My roommate took out his oil filter, drained all that came out (quart and a half), put the filter back, and added 4.7 quarts. Started his car and instantly destroyed his piston rings. Burns oil like crazy now. Should he junk it? Only has 112k miles automatic transmission.
p.s. My roommate is in college to be a mechanic. Probably shouldn't be a mechanic if he can't properly change his oil.
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1. Junk the car
2. Consider new profession
I can't fathom how all this went down. Drain plug. It is in the name. {black}:idontknow:
He didn’t destroy the engine. He just overfilled it and the excess oil is passing through the intake. I would drain the oil refill to specifications and run the car on the freeway it will smoke like hell as soon as you start it but the oil will eventually burn off
What the..?!
Find a used engine from a junkyard, if they intend to keep the car. If not, arrivederci.
NEVER heard of that before. Unless he drove the car like 40K miles before his change and got everything sludged up, I have no idea how that could possible happen.
I would junk it. Those things have disasters of automatic transmissions in them anyways.
Changing the oil correctly doesn't cause piston rings to blow. We're missing a part of the story here.
He didn't change it correctly, he removed the oil filter and drained from that hole INSTEAD of the drain plug. Removed probably about a quart and a half, but ADDED 4.7 quarts. As it says in the original post. He basically destroyed his engine. I should have been more clear in the original post.
Youre fine...
What a disaster area. What in the hell...
What person going to a mechanic school would do that. For heaven's sakes.
Junk the car if it's an automatic. It's only a matter of time before that transmission blows up... Trust me.