no oil on the dipstick

[peanut]

don't get me wrong I love my missus to bits and she is very special but there are times when I do wonder what goes through the heads of the fairer sex.[]


She was just off to Sussex for a few days and as usual when she goes on an extended trip I check the car over . Usually as an excuse to fill the tank for her and make sure there is at least some air in the tyres.[] (She works 7 days a week 11-14 hours every day and is a very busy peanut so things can slip her mind)

Imagine my surprise when I check the dipstick to find it bone dry ? wtf .!.......?

I pour a 1ltr can of oil into the filla neck and some oil shows on the minimum mark of the stick.

Later mrs peanut is packing the car and says................ 'did it need any oil '?

'yes' I say 'about 1.5lts'......

Puzzled look on Mrs Peanut's cherub-like boatrace 'well I topped it up '
'When was that ' I said


'Mmmmmmmmmm about June I think?'...............................................................

 

[Highwayman]

LOL []. I'm impressed that your wife even knows how to check the oil and top it up anyway...

Phil

 

[pauljmcnulty]

Later mrs peanut is packing the car and says................ 'did it need any oil '?

My better half believes that you put the car in for a service, and that's it for another year. Tyres, oil, water? What did I pay them to do....[]

Screenwash is great. Invoice includes £1.25 for screenwash, yet it runs out after a few months! [&:]

 

[cococola]

[][][]my mrs wouldnt know what oil was[&:][&:]

 

[ghost]

ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty

Later mrs peanut is packing the car and says................ 'did it need any oil '?

My better half believes that you put the car in for a service, and that's it for another year. Tyres, oil, water? What did I pay them to do....[]

Yep, I recognise that lady too.

 

[Suffolk944]

A certain lady of my past aquaintance upon discovering that there was basically very little oil in the engine expressed surprise as "the oil gauge on the dash was showing there was plenty in there..."[8|][&o]

 

[homesea]

ORIGINAL: sc0tty
touch wood, I have to say that in my 3 and a half years and 13000 miles of my S2, I have never topped up the oil !! I get it serviced every March, and I do check all the levels but the engine seems to be 100% leak free, and it burns no oil too. Is this normal?!![]

Scotty, thats because you are missing a turbo! If you did you be on your 13th litre by now[]

 

[pauljmcnulty]

touch wood, I have to say that in my 3 and a half years and 13000 miles of my S2, I have never topped up the oil !! I get it serviced every March, and I do check all the levels but the engine seems to be 100% leak free, and it burns no oil too. Is this normal?!!

I was very surprised by the oil consumption when I got the S2. I had to top it up every couple of fill-ups, so every 700 miles or so, but I was using it hard.

The worst was needing about a litre of oil within about 100 miles, when I had a run through the dozen or so roundabouts on the way to Silverstone trying to keep up with a new M5. He was letting me catch up between roundabouts, but for me it was fast motorway followed by revving the nuts off the poor car, and then getting a warning light. Since then I've not had any really hard use of the car, and it's done at least 4000 miles without any oil use.

I think the S2 lump shouldn't use much, if any, oil in normal use, despite the rather scary "check your oil" warning on the fuel filler. Abusing it, you will be using a lot of oil. Think of it as a "fun gauge"

 

[MRGT]

Not sure about the S2 but my handbook states approx 1 lt per 1000 miles is not unusual for the Lux, S and Turbo.

Howard

 

[Alpine]

[/quote]
touch wood, I have to say that in my 3 and a half years and 13000 miles of my S2, I have never topped up the oil !! I get it serviced every March, and I do check all the levels but the engine seems to be 100% leak free, and it burns no oil too. Is this normal?!![]
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mine is the same as yours Scotty, white ones use no oil []

 

[peanut]

who said anything about 944 ? [][][][][]

Sorry I should have said her car is a beat up old Mkl Mondeo (cost £200.00 ) which she uses to ferry straw, hay , feed sacks , tack, lumps of timber, old car batteries and electric fencing and an old scruffy Dobermann []

 

[Suffolk944]

ORIGINAL: peanut

and an old scruffy Dobermann []

Thats a bit harsh of her referring to you like that ! []

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: Suffolk944

ORIGINAL: peanut

and an old scruffy Dobermann []

Thats a bit harsh of her referring to you like that ! []

[][][] its ok........ my bark is worse than my bite these days lol