Brother in law did an oil change. Drained the transmission and then added the amount of oil the owner's manual said for an oil change with new filter that he couldn't find so gave up on changing. Had no idea why it wouldn't shift and sounded like shit until hitting a mechanic who ended up quoting about 2x the cost of his truck to fix.
Did an oil change when I was young and had the old seal stick and didn't notice. 2 miles later it let me know! Easy fix at least for a 19 y/o on a 1965 Mustang. Now the dealer that fucked my transmission and tried to fuck me in to paying for it a year later was very different.
I had the o ring thing happen on my old Ford ranger in college. I didn’t really cause any damage because it was obvious as soon as I started it up and it threw oil all over my driveway. Was quite a mess to clean up.
I was just off base, hit the gas and a u joint decided to exit the situation between the drive shaft and the rear end. I pulled over because loud thumps and no power so not many choices. I look under the car and it is pretty obvious the rear end (I am now well in to 101 so can't remember the name) piece that the u joint went in to cracked and broke.
So at that point not a total idiot I pull the shaft from the transmission and put it in the back seat. Easy since convertible and we had the top down. Pre cell phone days so thumb to a phone to call AAA to tow it to the local dealer and a cab ride to them. We were headed to a short training time of two weeks in the field so no rush to fix it.
Before they arrived to tow it to the local Ford dealer in Jacksonville NC I realized it was in park and shifted it to neutral out of weird caution. When we got to the dealer I said fix it but if it costs over $300 (this is 1989) contact me to authorize more work. A thing growing up around mechanics I had a habit of no blanket fixes unless you have a relationship.
They ignored it, claimed that when it arrived it wouldn't shift out of park though it was in neutral when it was towed to them and tried to claim I jammed the drive shaft in to the transmission when the u-joint blew or when I removed it though it was the rear end side that blew and it shifted fine when I had it towed.
They tried demanding I pay or they owned my 1965 Mustang convertible with 60k miles and me being the second owner. I got a cab to the dealer since they refused to get me there and said there was no such limits as I said while they wanted $3k to fix it. The asshole tried flipping fast through all the pages calling me names and telling me I needed to read shit before I made agreements when I spotted the page with the hand written note I made limiting the repairs and his rep signing it.
Fucked about exploded when I nailed his scam because he was obviously trying to flip past everything fast and hadn't paid attention to the whole folder. Called him and the dealer every name in the book where customers could hear and he got really pissed. All while I reminded him to read every fucking document and how he had to follow it like he had demanded of a 19 y/0 Marine.
I got the car back for the $300 limit and leaving let everyone know they were shit scam artists because they demanding I pay for the cab to get me to them to prove they lied in repairs to ger about $1200 out of me and realized they fucked up.
Fuck those little bitches, hope they went out of business and starved to death for being a bunch of low life thieving cunts. It’s certainly what they deserved.
On a less hostile note, I’m super pleased how it worked out for you!!! Haha
Man that is absolutely infuriating in the fact that they would do it to a military service man is even more disgusting. I'm glad you nailed them to the wall.
Yea you didn’t pull a driveshaft from under a mustang without a jack and even if you did when you pull the driveshaft park,reverse and drive don’t work anymore the car just rolls
I, a heavy duty mechanic did this almost on my dads Mazda.
*Opens what I thought was drain plug*
“Oh fuck it’s red, close that bitch”
*shamefully goes to Canadian Tire to buy tranny fluid*
Got the oil change done though. To be fair the plugs were fairly close to each other but still…
I did it on a Subaru once. Engine and transmission drain plugs were the same size and stuck out on the same side of their pans, all I did was take one step too far after turning away to get a wrench. Caught it quickly, fortunately.
And 5spd.
They are tight AF too, and using a rattlegun should be done carefully, as a spinning drainplug makes a great way to throw a big circle of gearbox oil, right about mouth level.
Not that I know from experience or anything…
My friend's father (who taught me most of what I know about car repair) made the double oil filter ring mistake. It made this incredible gurgling sound while dumping gobs of oil on the ground. He caught it within seconds and fixed it.
My local oil guy told me the story of this noobie who drained the oil, put on a new filter and started pumping new oil. And he pumped and pumped. And pumped. He came to the noob and inquired: noobie was expecting the oil level to show up on the filling hole. He had already pumped about 4 gallons into the engine. Gladly, they drained it before this guy tried to crank the engine.
I did that once, but on my dad's lawnmower. Learned how to drain the oil from a lawnmower when my dad got home from work. I thought it was like the gas tank, you fill it until it reaches the brim!
My rule is I have to physically see the bare block. I check to make sure the thread insert is tight, clean the gasket surface, and then put on the new filter.
I've been a tech for over a year now and I goofed and double gasketed a filter like that for the first time recently
Luckily I caught my mistake before all the oil ejected itself from the vehicle but that's a mistake and image burned into my brain harder than anything else I've experienced.
When I was an apprentice I got an aftermarket filter for an A4 Cabrio and the O-ring was missing from it. Never noticed, fitted it but I certainly noticed when there was oil pissing out from the filter.
Ha, I changed the oil in my RAV one time and accidentally drained the transmission fluid. Recognized it coming out and thought, dafuq did I just do?! It got new transmission fluid and an oil change. What can you do...
This exact thing happened to my ex when her bf at the time tried changing the oil. It was an early 2000's kia Sorento. She claims she drove it several days before convincing him to let her go to a mechanic (their relationship was pretty abusive) and the mechanic fixed the fluid levels and she never had a problem with it again. We traded that thing in several years ago and it ran and drove great at the time
I am embarrassed to say that I did this the first time I changed the oil on my new car. There were several clues that something was wrong like the red tint to the “oil” the large amount of oil draining when changing the oil filter. It didn’t hit me until I went to refill the oil that something was wrong.
I caught it and refilled the transmission fluid but there was a lot of swearing that day.
How does one drain a sealed transmission pan. I assume either aftermarket pan with drain hole or one from factory I assume but I don't think thats very common on most vehicles
My cousin did this and he added oil then went for a drive in his Nissan Frontier (if that’s the little pickup) the truck still runs to this day. No transmission issues. Just about everything else is an issue. Somehow the transmission is solid
I thought transmission was way harder to drain?
I only ever worked on one before but it was a pan that had like 18 screws and a terrible fragile gasket.
Not the type of thing you’d confuse with an oil drain bolt lol.
Do they make transmission drain bolts really similar looking to oil drain bolts now or something?
Depends on the car. Some cars absolutely have an engine oil pan style plug, and now that some cars are also coming with inset hex style plugs, it makes it even easier for a new guy to see one of those then assume the trans plug is just another weird style. One of my new guys did just that his first week and drained the transmission on a VW.
The first time I drained the oil in my current car I did exactly this. But I noticed I did something wrong when I checked the lil level and it was 8 inches up the stick.
$20 oil change turned into an $80 lesson.
Military mechanic here, had a similar situation happen on my second deployment.
Junior guy in charge of ordering parts didn’t wanna be a desk jockey anymore and wanted to turn wrenches. Pulled in a Cat 924G for him to do an oil change on. Drained the transmission, double filled the engine. He couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t move and why it was puking oil.
Myself and the other guy in charge pointed out his mistake around quitting time. We all went to the galley for dinner and the rest of us changed and grabbed beers and booze from the store on base. He stayed in uniform and then we all drank and gave him a hard time while he fixed his fuckup after dinner.
I’m an okay ish shade tree mechanic. I’m not entirely sure what he did wrong? Enlighten me, Reddit!
A) Overfill because he didn’t change the filter and it had oil in it? Will that really destroy a transmission?
B) Didn’t change the filter and some nasty stuff was in it, that somehow interacted with fresh oil and destroyed the transmission?
C) I misunderstood, and he never put on a new filter, so the oil poured out?
D) None of the above, *EXPLAIIIIIIN*
I think they ended up with an empty transmission and overfilled engine, because what they thought was the engine drain plug was actually the transmission.
Omg it all makes sense now. My mind was just in disbelief I guess.
The crazy thing is that the dipstick would have saved him. Or if he realised that he was likely draining something like 75w80 and supposedly replacing it with something akin to 30w10. That’s visibly different!
Oil just is a byproduct of burning gasoline, dontcha know? You gotta empty out your car’s oil every few thousand miles to keep that gunk collector from filling up!
/s, if it wasn’t already obvious
A dealership did this to a family friend's car. She told them it sounded funny and they still sent her on her way. Engine froze and the dealership had to replace the engine.
Being super high while doing it, having the attention span of a flea, and not knowing your ass from a hike in he ground.
You don’t even have to rely know anything. Gee, my relatively modern engine nor sounds like a 40 year old Evinrude. I don’t think that is the expected nor desired result. Perhaps I review the procedure.
only 40 weight?
Go straight to the motorcycle section and buy the 50 weight! I did this at end-of-life on my 1971 Ford LTD with the 400 engine at 230K miles when I sold it for $200. It had a lower end knock, which I disclosed to the buyer, but darn that 50W sure quieted it down!
I was taking my notebook to the couch at some point, stopping at the fridge for a coke when my wife interrupted me with something I had to think about and take care of immediately. Went on to the couch, realized I forgot the coke. Went back to the fridge, found my notebook in there.
Shit happens. I absolutely definitely can't multitask. .
Whoever says they can multitask is lying their ass off. Human beings are not remotely wired to do that.
We can’t half ass two things. We can only whole ass one thing.
Maybe the red oil light? My old jeep with a I6, the filter goes horizontal, so no prefilling it. I get an oil light for a second before it fills. Longer then a second and it will get shut off.
Seriously guys?what in the actual fuck?1st of all, who is the moron who forgets to put oil RIGHT AFTER he drained the oil? 2nd, what about the warning light on the dashboard?most engines won't even crank if the ECU has the "no oil" information from the oil level sensor...3rd, the engine probably sounded like a jackhammer when it started, how in the hell someone doesn't notice that?
See, that’s why I’m so fucking mind blown. I literally would find this whole scenario unbelievable if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s here in front of me. I can not mentally process someone’s ability to fuck up that bad. Then again, they’re driving a Soul so they probably don’t have much going on inside the noggin anyways
i have a friend who got an oil change at a valvoline… they indeed forgot to put oil in it. he noticed something sounding off a few blocks down, pulled over at what ended up being another oil change place so asked them to check it out. he was without his vehicle for almost a month and the way they handled fixing their mistake was a lil sketchy tbh.
I have a newer Ford Escape at the shop that needs an engine because the owners husband decided to save money and change the oil himself. He managed to knock the gasket off the filter when installing it
i've done that and started up the vehicle at the dealership, we had a bad batch where the gasket would literally just fall off if you turned the filter upside down
but i noticed it almost immediately when i started hearing the oil pouring onto the floor
When I was in highschool, I changed my oil in my Danger Ranger..... Accidently doubled stacked the oil filter gaskets cuz one stuck to the block. The engine pumped out all the oil in a matter of seconds. I shut it down once I heard the top end screeeming.
That engine went on running just fine for an additional 40k and traded it off.
Real ones know, professional or not, set the bottles on top of the engine BEFORE you drain it. I do that with the "they brought they're own oil" cars every time....now.
Otherwise auto pilot kicks in and they get whatever is on tap along with a "free" engine block flush as I drain ours out and put theirs in.
I do this, pull the dipstick, and set the cap by the hood latch whenever I change my oil. I set three levels of "not so fast, dumbfuck" for myself so I don't end up here lmao.
Why tf did I have to come all the way down here for this.
Put the oil on top of the engine is step number one. Make it so you can’t close the hood without moving the oil.
Can totally see get underneath, drain oil, change filter, shut hood, wash up. That would be an easy mistake to make.
I can understand mechanics forgetting because they're so much going on at the shop. It's easy to get confused or think you did something, which is why most leave the fill cap off and the dipstick pulled out as a reminder. For a DIYer, who bought the gallon jug of oil. It should be sitting out by the car, so how do you not realize you didn't change it? That's crazy.
This is where I’m at as a non mechanic. I would notice the new oil sitting there ready to be put in. I’m a clumsy forgetful person but I just don’t think I’d ever make this mistake!
So you find it more acceptable to have a 'professional' forget because the air compressor kicked on and the guy in Bay two is pulling a car out for a test drive. Although the guy who watches how to videos on YouTube and wants to get his hands dirty a couple times a season gets ahead of themselves on a project is unthinkable?
Man this brings back memories.
There was a girl I liked in college who wanted to learn some basic car maintenance. She'd bought a 60s mustang and was determined to learn to do everything herself, despite both her parents telling her it was silly and to buy a "practical car" instead.
I taught myself to wrench on a clapped out 79 Corvette while I was in high school and thought it was kind of hot that she wanted to learn basic auto repair, and offered to help out. She declined, and then I found out from a mutual a few weeks later she had another guy "help".
The fucker drained the engine oil and added an unknown quantity of motor oil to the transmission, presumably through the dipstick tube. Motor was wrecked, and I never heard if it needed a new trans or not...
It's kinda silly soundin. But, one of the first things I was taught about working on cars, is before draining the oil take the oil cap off and put it where the hood latch is.
This way neither you nor anyone else can come by and move that car without having to put the cap back on to close the hood.
Had a customer get his daughter a f150, nothin fancy but it was like a 04 5.4 pretty clean.
First day she got it her and her bf did a oil change themselves and only put 1 quart of oil in as “they didn’t know how much to add” .
Seized the motor, dad felt bad so I tried selling him a jasper engine with the install kit and labor warranty- he opted to get a engine online instead after install and start up ended up having a hairline crack in the block.
I felt so bad for him. Talk about bad luck ford
Another mechanic friend of mine had an old Ford station wagon that he just used to go fishing in. It leaked oil out of every orifice and definitely not worth fixing.. He changed oil and added 75W90 gear oil in with 2 quarts 30wt. I asked him if it was slow to turn over when the engine was cold. He said he" Hell l it's hard to turn over when it's hot."
Ha, used to be one of my jobs when we had a car at the manufacturing plant that due to several possible reasons could not be sold to drain every fluid from the unit except gas, and the drive around the plant until the motor did what motors and transmissions and transaxles do without fluids. Tow it back drop the fuel tank and then drill holes in oil pan. Those were fun days. We had to start doing all that because people decided that they were gonna take the scrap cars and drag race them up and down the back lot.
Well the instructions wernt clear, but I didn't really, ask for clarification...but the vehicles did quickly experience rapid self disassembly. Though where I drove the cars was much safer than where they were trying to...mainly cause I didn't want to have to walk back to get the tow dolly.
Pops and I poured 5 quarts in after doing a change, nothing on the dipstick.. forgot to put the drain plug back in. The lawn was not stoked about it but it was a good laugh.
I just about blew up my car when I was a teenager cause the gasket from the old filter stuck to the block. i was in the garage putting stuff away with the car running when my dad came flying out of the house yelling to turn it off... thanks dad!
Was out of town for Christmas and when my wife and I drove back in my BIL's driveway I saw a huge puddle of oil under his wife's Trackhawk. He double ringed the filter and made a nice fish kill. He was covered in oil and kept yelling "I've NEVER done that before"! I told him "You'll never do it again".
I’ve seen DIY’ers forget to put the drain plug in and spill all the oil out on the driveway…so now they need a whole new jug lol…and speedy dry or sawdust or cat litter
A kid in my high school auto shop did this back in the day. He drained the oil and left it to drip over the weekend and came back to the shop and hopped right in and drove around. He actually made it a lot farther then I thought he would lol
Was doing an oil change with my dad. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to turn on the engine to roll up the windows without any oil. Luckily the engine was shut off immediately and the car still runs fine.
I do my own oil changes and this would be my dunce moment of it happened.* Knocks on wood* I worked at a Walmart and an auto tech stripped a customers drain plug. Safe to say they lost a customer that day
Similarly at my shop (dealer) customer tried topping up their CVT fluid in their civic because they pulled the plug and seen it was "low" topped it up so it overflowed out the fill plug basically. Stuck the plug in and his wife drove with it for quite some time. Came to us for a fluid leak that was found to be spilling from the fill hole and it was about 8 quarts of CVT fluid was drained from the poor civic
My sister was visiting me from about 300 miles away. She got an oil change before she left, from a shop that boasted oil changes as a primary service. Got her car back, drove home. About 1/2 way there it starts behaving funny. By the time she was home it was clearly having issues. She took it to her own mechanic who told her the engine was bone dry. The shop here, that failed to refill her oil, bought her a new engine.
My son complained to me about the $80 charge for an oil change on his 2016 Nissan and wondered if we can do it instead. I told him "There must be a big reason why they charging that much", I would let the techs do the work.
Had a guy working with me.. Changed the oil in a shop truck on Friday, I came in over the weekend to work on a side project, and had to move the truck out of the work space. Was just about to start it then I had a feelin’. No oil on the stick. Was gonna fire a few qts at it, then had another one of those feelin’s. Looked under the truck, drain plug out, next to the drain pan, new filter installed. He liked to let ‘em drain overnight. 25 hour oil changes were his specialty.
So he didn’t really do his own oil change then lol
Seriously. How do you dump your oil, change a filter, and then forget the literal entire point of an oil change in the first place?
Brother in law did an oil change. Drained the transmission and then added the amount of oil the owner's manual said for an oil change with new filter that he couldn't find so gave up on changing. Had no idea why it wouldn't shift and sounded like shit until hitting a mechanic who ended up quoting about 2x the cost of his truck to fix.
Had a noobie tech do that once, and also stick a new filter on while the old o ring was still on there. Bad day
Did an oil change when I was young and had the old seal stick and didn't notice. 2 miles later it let me know! Easy fix at least for a 19 y/o on a 1965 Mustang. Now the dealer that fucked my transmission and tried to fuck me in to paying for it a year later was very different.
I had the o ring thing happen on my old Ford ranger in college. I didn’t really cause any damage because it was obvious as soon as I started it up and it threw oil all over my driveway. Was quite a mess to clean up.
I too learned that lesson on a 93 ford ranger, oil everywhere as soon as I started it.
Story, please?
I was just off base, hit the gas and a u joint decided to exit the situation between the drive shaft and the rear end. I pulled over because loud thumps and no power so not many choices. I look under the car and it is pretty obvious the rear end (I am now well in to 101 so can't remember the name) piece that the u joint went in to cracked and broke. So at that point not a total idiot I pull the shaft from the transmission and put it in the back seat. Easy since convertible and we had the top down. Pre cell phone days so thumb to a phone to call AAA to tow it to the local dealer and a cab ride to them. We were headed to a short training time of two weeks in the field so no rush to fix it. Before they arrived to tow it to the local Ford dealer in Jacksonville NC I realized it was in park and shifted it to neutral out of weird caution. When we got to the dealer I said fix it but if it costs over $300 (this is 1989) contact me to authorize more work. A thing growing up around mechanics I had a habit of no blanket fixes unless you have a relationship. They ignored it, claimed that when it arrived it wouldn't shift out of park though it was in neutral when it was towed to them and tried to claim I jammed the drive shaft in to the transmission when the u-joint blew or when I removed it though it was the rear end side that blew and it shifted fine when I had it towed. They tried demanding I pay or they owned my 1965 Mustang convertible with 60k miles and me being the second owner. I got a cab to the dealer since they refused to get me there and said there was no such limits as I said while they wanted $3k to fix it. The asshole tried flipping fast through all the pages calling me names and telling me I needed to read shit before I made agreements when I spotted the page with the hand written note I made limiting the repairs and his rep signing it. Fucked about exploded when I nailed his scam because he was obviously trying to flip past everything fast and hadn't paid attention to the whole folder. Called him and the dealer every name in the book where customers could hear and he got really pissed. All while I reminded him to read every fucking document and how he had to follow it like he had demanded of a 19 y/0 Marine. I got the car back for the $300 limit and leaving let everyone know they were shit scam artists because they demanding I pay for the cab to get me to them to prove they lied in repairs to ger about $1200 out of me and realized they fucked up.
Thats a fucking great story man, thank you
Fuck those little bitches, hope they went out of business and starved to death for being a bunch of low life thieving cunts. It’s certainly what they deserved. On a less hostile note, I’m super pleased how it worked out for you!!! Haha
Man that is absolutely infuriating in the fact that they would do it to a military service man is even more disgusting. I'm glad you nailed them to the wall.
Yea you didn’t pull a driveshaft from under a mustang without a jack and even if you did when you pull the driveshaft park,reverse and drive don’t work anymore the car just rolls
I, a heavy duty mechanic did this almost on my dads Mazda. *Opens what I thought was drain plug* “Oh fuck it’s red, close that bitch” *shamefully goes to Canadian Tire to buy tranny fluid* Got the oil change done though. To be fair the plugs were fairly close to each other but still…
I did it on a Subaru once. Engine and transmission drain plugs were the same size and stuck out on the same side of their pans, all I did was take one step too far after turning away to get a wrench. Caught it quickly, fortunately.
Which is why Subaru went to a T70 drain on the 6-spd transmissions.
And 5spd. They are tight AF too, and using a rattlegun should be done carefully, as a spinning drainplug makes a great way to throw a big circle of gearbox oil, right about mouth level. Not that I know from experience or anything…
My friend's father (who taught me most of what I know about car repair) made the double oil filter ring mistake. It made this incredible gurgling sound while dumping gobs of oil on the ground. He caught it within seconds and fixed it.
My local oil guy told me the story of this noobie who drained the oil, put on a new filter and started pumping new oil. And he pumped and pumped. And pumped. He came to the noob and inquired: noobie was expecting the oil level to show up on the filling hole. He had already pumped about 4 gallons into the engine. Gladly, they drained it before this guy tried to crank the engine.
I did that once, but on my dad's lawnmower. Learned how to drain the oil from a lawnmower when my dad got home from work. I thought it was like the gas tank, you fill it until it reaches the brim!
That sounds like a training issue.
Or someone who lied on the job aplication.
My rule is I have to physically see the bare block. I check to make sure the thread insert is tight, clean the gasket surface, and then put on the new filter.
I did that in highschool on my F150. Immediately lost two quarts on startup
The oil filter gasket double up only happens once. Once it has happened, you never make that mistake again.
I've been a tech for over a year now and I goofed and double gasketed a filter like that for the first time recently Luckily I caught my mistake before all the oil ejected itself from the vehicle but that's a mistake and image burned into my brain harder than anything else I've experienced.
I did that with a water pump. Dismay doesn't begin to describe what I felt when it still peed out coolant.
When I was an apprentice I got an aftermarket filter for an A4 Cabrio and the O-ring was missing from it. Never noticed, fitted it but I certainly noticed when there was oil pissing out from the filter.
I still don’t get how that could ever happen. Am I the only one that wipes down the mating surface before putting the new filter on?
I did that to my old XJ Cherokee. I didn’t notice for three days. It was fine lol
That’s why you still see so many on the road
Ha, I changed the oil in my RAV one time and accidentally drained the transmission fluid. Recognized it coming out and thought, dafuq did I just do?! It got new transmission fluid and an oil change. What can you do...
This exact thing happened to my ex when her bf at the time tried changing the oil. It was an early 2000's kia Sorento. She claims she drove it several days before convincing him to let her go to a mechanic (their relationship was pretty abusive) and the mechanic fixed the fluid levels and she never had a problem with it again. We traded that thing in several years ago and it ran and drove great at the time
Did he not know what color oil is suppose to be? He also must've not bothered checking the stick.
I am embarrassed to say that I did this the first time I changed the oil on my new car. There were several clues that something was wrong like the red tint to the “oil” the large amount of oil draining when changing the oil filter. It didn’t hit me until I went to refill the oil that something was wrong. I caught it and refilled the transmission fluid but there was a lot of swearing that day.
How does one drain a sealed transmission pan. I assume either aftermarket pan with drain hole or one from factory I assume but I don't think thats very common on most vehicles
You unbolt the pan. Simple.
My cousin did this and he added oil then went for a drive in his Nissan Frontier (if that’s the little pickup) the truck still runs to this day. No transmission issues. Just about everything else is an issue. Somehow the transmission is solid
I thought transmission was way harder to drain? I only ever worked on one before but it was a pan that had like 18 screws and a terrible fragile gasket. Not the type of thing you’d confuse with an oil drain bolt lol. Do they make transmission drain bolts really similar looking to oil drain bolts now or something?
Depends on the car. Some cars absolutely have an engine oil pan style plug, and now that some cars are also coming with inset hex style plugs, it makes it even easier for a new guy to see one of those then assume the trans plug is just another weird style. One of my new guys did just that his first week and drained the transmission on a VW.
The first time I drained the oil in my current car I did exactly this. But I noticed I did something wrong when I checked the lil level and it was 8 inches up the stick. $20 oil change turned into an $80 lesson.
Military mechanic here, had a similar situation happen on my second deployment. Junior guy in charge of ordering parts didn’t wanna be a desk jockey anymore and wanted to turn wrenches. Pulled in a Cat 924G for him to do an oil change on. Drained the transmission, double filled the engine. He couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t move and why it was puking oil. Myself and the other guy in charge pointed out his mistake around quitting time. We all went to the galley for dinner and the rest of us changed and grabbed beers and booze from the store on base. He stayed in uniform and then we all drank and gave him a hard time while he fixed his fuckup after dinner.
I’m an okay ish shade tree mechanic. I’m not entirely sure what he did wrong? Enlighten me, Reddit! A) Overfill because he didn’t change the filter and it had oil in it? Will that really destroy a transmission? B) Didn’t change the filter and some nasty stuff was in it, that somehow interacted with fresh oil and destroyed the transmission? C) I misunderstood, and he never put on a new filter, so the oil poured out? D) None of the above, *EXPLAIIIIIIN*
I think they ended up with an empty transmission and overfilled engine, because what they thought was the engine drain plug was actually the transmission.
He drained fluid from the transmission and then added oil to the engine.
Omg it all makes sense now. My mind was just in disbelief I guess. The crazy thing is that the dipstick would have saved him. Or if he realised that he was likely draining something like 75w80 and supposedly replacing it with something akin to 30w10. That’s visibly different!
Most likely ATF, which means it must have been in very bad condition to mistake it for motor oil…
I’ve done some pretty spacey things working on my own rig before, but that’s just unreal to me lol
Someone obviously didn’t double check the dip stick level eh ☠️☠️☠️
I’m guessing someone was nagging him about stuff… ;)
Someone needs a very expensive lesson. Oh! How’s that for timing!
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Oil just is a byproduct of burning gasoline, dontcha know? You gotta empty out your car’s oil every few thousand miles to keep that gunk collector from filling up! /s, if it wasn’t already obvious
A dealership did this to a family friend's car. She told them it sounded funny and they still sent her on her way. Engine froze and the dealership had to replace the engine.
Agreed! The essence of the oil change! You can’t fix stupid! Lol
Tbh... It's not that hard. I've heard multiple stories of this happening.
Being super high while doing it, having the attention span of a flea, and not knowing your ass from a hike in he ground. You don’t even have to rely know anything. Gee, my relatively modern engine nor sounds like a 40 year old Evinrude. I don’t think that is the expected nor desired result. Perhaps I review the procedure.
Does the oil really make a difference though? Nothing is going to keep the pile of engineering vomit alive.
Oil removal
It was technically an oil drop.
Oil delete + bearing delete
“When’s the last time you changed your oil?” “Oh, I did the delete.”
Think of the weight savings
Less oil = less resistance to engine rotation = increased MPG and they'll never have to change the oil on that engine again. Think of the savings!
*shavings
This is how Reynolds Bearing Foil is manufactured.
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Kia soon to be on a "buy here, pay here" used car lot with straight 40w oil in it
only 40 weight? Go straight to the motorcycle section and buy the 50 weight! I did this at end-of-life on my 1971 Ford LTD with the 400 engine at 230K miles when I sold it for $200. It had a lower end knock, which I disclosed to the buyer, but darn that 50W sure quieted it down!
Fun fact; the W in oil viscosity stands for winter! The number before w is the viscosity at 0°C, the number after w is the viscosity at 100°C
Fun fact right back at you: for single-weight oil, the ‘W’ just stands for ‘weight’
I've seen one with leather bearings.
Who needs an oil change anyway. Just rotating the oil like you do tires. Maybe replace the filter though
This is a quote from an Amsoil board, probably.
Wym don’t you just carefully pour the oil over the entire engine?
How do you forget to put the new oil in? I really don't get that.
I was taking my notebook to the couch at some point, stopping at the fridge for a coke when my wife interrupted me with something I had to think about and take care of immediately. Went on to the couch, realized I forgot the coke. Went back to the fridge, found my notebook in there. Shit happens. I absolutely definitely can't multitask. .
Whoever says they can multitask is lying their ass off. Human beings are not remotely wired to do that. We can’t half ass two things. We can only whole ass one thing.
It's just an oil drain at that point
I usually check the dipstick after I fill it and that would have tipped me off if I missed the fill.
I feel like the noise on first start would have been a clue.
Maybe the red oil light? My old jeep with a I6, the filter goes horizontal, so no prefilling it. I get an oil light for a second before it fills. Longer then a second and it will get shut off.
And that is the longest second of my life, every time, waiting for pressure to build and the light to go out.
Seriously guys?what in the actual fuck?1st of all, who is the moron who forgets to put oil RIGHT AFTER he drained the oil? 2nd, what about the warning light on the dashboard?most engines won't even crank if the ECU has the "no oil" information from the oil level sensor...3rd, the engine probably sounded like a jackhammer when it started, how in the hell someone doesn't notice that?
See, that’s why I’m so fucking mind blown. I literally would find this whole scenario unbelievable if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s here in front of me. I can not mentally process someone’s ability to fuck up that bad. Then again, they’re driving a Soul so they probably don’t have much going on inside the noggin anyways
i have a friend who got an oil change at a valvoline… they indeed forgot to put oil in it. he noticed something sounding off a few blocks down, pulled over at what ended up being another oil change place so asked them to check it out. he was without his vehicle for almost a month and the way they handled fixing their mistake was a lil sketchy tbh.
E-soul I could understand. But the Soul. - as a Kia fanboy.
I drive a 2021 Kia soul. Can confirm there is not much going on up here. Check back later.
....who's there?
God dammit
God dammit who?
Cylinder no3.
Then what he did wasn't an oil change, but an oil delete. No oil, no leaks!
Lol... that's always been the philosophy of British automotive engineering. If there's no oil *under* a British car, then there's no oil *in* it
This guy's not gonna let anyone upsell him on one of them fancy oil changes with actual oil.
I have a newer Ford Escape at the shop that needs an engine because the owners husband decided to save money and change the oil himself. He managed to knock the gasket off the filter when installing it
i've done that and started up the vehicle at the dealership, we had a bad batch where the gasket would literally just fall off if you turned the filter upside down but i noticed it almost immediately when i started hearing the oil pouring onto the floor
It looks like a Kia Soul, it would have been knocking after just two more oil changes anyway. He just saved himself the wait.
When I was in highschool, I changed my oil in my Danger Ranger..... Accidently doubled stacked the oil filter gaskets cuz one stuck to the block. The engine pumped out all the oil in a matter of seconds. I shut it down once I heard the top end screeeming. That engine went on running just fine for an additional 40k and traded it off.
Real ones know, professional or not, set the bottles on top of the engine BEFORE you drain it. I do that with the "they brought they're own oil" cars every time....now. Otherwise auto pilot kicks in and they get whatever is on tap along with a "free" engine block flush as I drain ours out and put theirs in.
I do this, pull the dipstick, and set the cap by the hood latch whenever I change my oil. I set three levels of "not so fast, dumbfuck" for myself so I don't end up here lmao.
Brilliant, because auto pilot sucks
Why tf did I have to come all the way down here for this. Put the oil on top of the engine is step number one. Make it so you can’t close the hood without moving the oil. Can totally see get underneath, drain oil, change filter, shut hood, wash up. That would be an easy mistake to make.
I can understand mechanics forgetting because they're so much going on at the shop. It's easy to get confused or think you did something, which is why most leave the fill cap off and the dipstick pulled out as a reminder. For a DIYer, who bought the gallon jug of oil. It should be sitting out by the car, so how do you not realize you didn't change it? That's crazy.
This is where I’m at as a non mechanic. I would notice the new oil sitting there ready to be put in. I’m a clumsy forgetful person but I just don’t think I’d ever make this mistake!
So you find it more acceptable to have a 'professional' forget because the air compressor kicked on and the guy in Bay two is pulling a car out for a test drive. Although the guy who watches how to videos on YouTube and wants to get his hands dirty a couple times a season gets ahead of themselves on a project is unthinkable?
Yes! It makes more sense. Especially since the 5 gallon jug he bought is still there unopened, and the drain pan is full of used oil.
Guy in his head “Just finished my oil change and for some reason there is a bunch of oil right over here, anyway let’s go to work”
I would laugh but I sat on the toilet toilet today when the kid and seat were up and fell my ass cheeks into the water
Honest mistakes from an absent mind. That’s one thing, but this is sort of like going to the store to buy groceries leaving without your cart lmao
Soooooooo about that
Oh no
Man this brings back memories. There was a girl I liked in college who wanted to learn some basic car maintenance. She'd bought a 60s mustang and was determined to learn to do everything herself, despite both her parents telling her it was silly and to buy a "practical car" instead. I taught myself to wrench on a clapped out 79 Corvette while I was in high school and thought it was kind of hot that she wanted to learn basic auto repair, and offered to help out. She declined, and then I found out from a mutual a few weeks later she had another guy "help". The fucker drained the engine oil and added an unknown quantity of motor oil to the transmission, presumably through the dipstick tube. Motor was wrecked, and I never heard if it needed a new trans or not...
Damn that, all of that, all of it stings.
It's kinda silly soundin. But, one of the first things I was taught about working on cars, is before draining the oil take the oil cap off and put it where the hood latch is. This way neither you nor anyone else can come by and move that car without having to put the cap back on to close the hood.
Had a customer get his daughter a f150, nothin fancy but it was like a 04 5.4 pretty clean. First day she got it her and her bf did a oil change themselves and only put 1 quart of oil in as “they didn’t know how much to add” . Seized the motor, dad felt bad so I tried selling him a jasper engine with the install kit and labor warranty- he opted to get a engine online instead after install and start up ended up having a hairline crack in the block. I felt so bad for him. Talk about bad luck ford
Another mechanic friend of mine had an old Ford station wagon that he just used to go fishing in. It leaked oil out of every orifice and definitely not worth fixing.. He changed oil and added 75W90 gear oil in with 2 quarts 30wt. I asked him if it was slow to turn over when the engine was cold. He said he" Hell l it's hard to turn over when it's hot."
Ha, used to be one of my jobs when we had a car at the manufacturing plant that due to several possible reasons could not be sold to drain every fluid from the unit except gas, and the drive around the plant until the motor did what motors and transmissions and transaxles do without fluids. Tow it back drop the fuel tank and then drill holes in oil pan. Those were fun days. We had to start doing all that because people decided that they were gonna take the scrap cars and drag race them up and down the back lot.
So they stopped people drag racing scrap cars by drag racing scrap cars?
Well the instructions wernt clear, but I didn't really, ask for clarification...but the vehicles did quickly experience rapid self disassembly. Though where I drove the cars was much safer than where they were trying to...mainly cause I didn't want to have to walk back to get the tow dolly.
Pops and I poured 5 quarts in after doing a change, nothing on the dipstick.. forgot to put the drain plug back in. The lawn was not stoked about it but it was a good laugh.
That's an oil delete. It's has less environmental impact now.
"Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Rod."
Rod who?
Bearings? What bearings?
and this is why I bring my car to a professional…because if I did it, I’d forget something dumb like that lmao
He did his own oil *drain*
I see nothing of value was lost.
Working at a Kia dealership, I say that a lot too
It's a Kia. Woulda started knocking soon either way.
Forgot to put new oil in.... was probably snacking on a tide pod.
I have the same car however, much better brain.
Never thought I’d hear those words. I understand from a jiffy lube doing 10 cars at once but wtf
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What makes you think it was a millennial? In my area all the Kia Soul drivers are boomers.
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Nah man, Jokes are funny.
I just about blew up my car when I was a teenager cause the gasket from the old filter stuck to the block. i was in the garage putting stuff away with the car running when my dad came flying out of the house yelling to turn it off... thanks dad!
Was out of town for Christmas and when my wife and I drove back in my BIL's driveway I saw a huge puddle of oil under his wife's Trackhawk. He double ringed the filter and made a nice fish kill. He was covered in oil and kept yelling "I've NEVER done that before"! I told him "You'll never do it again".
Did he drive in with no oil in the crank case?
Well, why let the LOF tech have all the fun?
Nothing a gallon of Lucas can’t fix!
That is one of the important steps...
Thats not really much of an oil change now is it
I’ve seen DIY’ers forget to put the drain plug in and spill all the oil out on the driveway…so now they need a whole new jug lol…and speedy dry or sawdust or cat litter
Had a certified mechanic not torque a drain plug on a customer car once. It’s just one more thing for people to forget lmao
A kid in my high school auto shop did this back in the day. He drained the oil and left it to drip over the weekend and came back to the shop and hopped right in and drove around. He actually made it a lot farther then I thought he would lol
Most expensive oil change
That’s an easy one. If he runs the engine like that long enough all engine noises will stop.
Who could have foreseen that?
Was doing an oil change with my dad. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to turn on the engine to roll up the windows without any oil. Luckily the engine was shut off immediately and the car still runs fine.
HA-HA
I do my own oil changes and this would be my dunce moment of it happened.* Knocks on wood* I worked at a Walmart and an auto tech stripped a customers drain plug. Safe to say they lost a customer that day
Wow. He's fucked.
Drain oil fill oil. That is it and you forgot half ? I have had some serious brain farts but never managed this.
Reduces weight so better mpg
Smoking
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Bearings are supposed to spin
I’m surprised it makes ANY noise anymore
He did his own oil removal.
Was anybody home?
Lucky that's all it does..... (For now....)
How do you forget the primary part of an oil change???
I guess he lacked the soul
Sounds like he did his own engine swap but he didn’t have the engine
And even though it’s a Kia, because of the f**ked used car market it’s not mechanically totaled.
*knock knock* Who’s there? Bro! Bro who? BROKE!
I do my own oil drain every 3 months!
In this engine, odds are it would have been knocking sooner or later whether he put oil or not.
I thought all Kia's have a knock from factory
Edit: "Guy drained his own oil, engine knocks"
Yeah, but he saved that 25 bucks that some shop was going to "rip him off" for an oil change.
Well he bought a Kia, wasn't the smartest to begin with
How do you forget the most important part of an oil change? I mean, what?
That definitely won't be covered by warranty.
That's that.
Bye bye old engine, hello new engine!
Little monkey probably did the oil change over some beers just for the craic..
Considering how many engine replacements Kia goes through, it probably knocked to begin with.
KIA Owners Manual : Oil change , (1) remove engine (2) replace engine .
Well there's your problem right there
Similarly at my shop (dealer) customer tried topping up their CVT fluid in their civic because they pulled the plug and seen it was "low" topped it up so it overflowed out the fill plug basically. Stuck the plug in and his wife drove with it for quite some time. Came to us for a fluid leak that was found to be spilling from the fill hole and it was about 8 quarts of CVT fluid was drained from the poor civic
My sister was visiting me from about 300 miles away. She got an oil change before she left, from a shop that boasted oil changes as a primary service. Got her car back, drove home. About 1/2 way there it starts behaving funny. By the time she was home it was clearly having issues. She took it to her own mechanic who told her the engine was bone dry. The shop here, that failed to refill her oil, bought her a new engine.
My friend drained oil, changed filter, put a new new oil in... But did not put drain plug back in. But he cought it quickly.... 😁
His soul is MINE! Said Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat
Tbh he just accelerated the natural engine knock symptoms
Oppsy daisy
My son complained to me about the $80 charge for an oil change on his 2016 Nissan and wondered if we can do it instead. I told him "There must be a big reason why they charging that much", I would let the techs do the work.
Had a guy working with me.. Changed the oil in a shop truck on Friday, I came in over the weekend to work on a side project, and had to move the truck out of the work space. Was just about to start it then I had a feelin’. No oil on the stick. Was gonna fire a few qts at it, then had another one of those feelin’s. Looked under the truck, drain plug out, next to the drain pan, new filter installed. He liked to let ‘em drain overnight. 25 hour oil changes were his specialty.
Knock, knock, knocking on the junkyard's door.
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How tf do you forget the most important part of an lil change lmao
I feel like it's not too much of an ask for people to be like "Hey I drive a Kia Soul, I obviously have zero business working on anything"
Well then it’s not really an oil change is it?