Check Engine Light Came On
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Kind of a messed up deal with my wife’s car right now. About 3-4K miles into her last oil change it started leaking oil out of the filter. We took it to a different shop to get the oil changed and now, about 600 miles before her oil change is due, it started leaking again.
What would cause an oil filter to leak, two changes in a row, 3-4K miles after the oil change?
What would cause an oil filter to leak, two changes in a row, 3-4K miles after the oil change?
If it's the spin-on style filter, sometimes the old rubber gaskets stick to the block. Then the new filter doesn't seal right.
If it's the cartridge style filter, it could be they forgot to install the o-ring that should have come with the new filter. Or just left the old o-ring on there.
It’s a spin on style filter and that was my first thought. I just have a hard time believing that two different shops would miss this. Especially after bringing it in the second time for this problem. I guess it’s a possibility though. I didn’t pull the filter because changing oil sucks.
Yeah, but shops usually put the least experienced people on oil changes and tell them to turn them around as fast as they can. Or maybe they didnt get them quite tight enough, and over 3k to 4k miles they loosen enough to leak. I agree it would be rare to have it happen twice on the same car, but you never know.
I'm a reliability engineer in the heavy duty auto industry and we spend tens of millions of dollars in warranty every year for dealerships to replace parts that aren't broke.
I will grant you that some things have gotten easier as we've replaced vacuum and oil pressure actuated mechanisms with electric ones. But that's also introduced some new problems as now you have to trace circuits everywhere to find shorts, or worse, try to diagnose a CAN error.
Yes, it would only hand tighten about another inch or so. I put the car up and verified where it was leaking from. I tightened it up and ran the car some more but there were new drips on the cardboard after letting it run.
It actually seemed overtightened from the last change, which also could be a problem. I just feel like there’s more to it than that since it was fine for 4,000 miles for the last two oil changes.
Sub the Canadian Bacon for pepperoni sometime, maybe even throw on some hatch chiles or jalapenos and pineapple is money on pizza.
Well take it to a full mechanic that you trust an let him do the next oil change and check it out. The gasket idea seems pretty probable to me.
Did you remember to switch out the summer air for winter air last fall?Not the engine light, but the 40 degree swing triggered my tire pressure light. Gotta love winter
Pull the battery for a min or two. That used to work for cell phones back in the day.
Ha. No but pulling the battery cured most issues. Of course that was 15 yrs ago
I used to go to a Chinese buffet in Tennessee that would put a Totino's Party Pizza on the buffet about every 10 minutes.
They wouldn't just throw them on there though, they would stack them on top of each other. Since nobody but me would eat it, the stack would get ridiculously high.
Fast forward to some really drunk birthdays in my 30's and I would get hammered and demand my wife make me a stack of pepperoni Party Pizzas. I would almost always pass out before I ate them and I would wake up the next day beside a stack of pizzas.
These were always the diced up pepperoni variety.
Good times.
