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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / August 2006Engine oil and transmission fluid mix-ups - how common?
How often do garages and quick lube places wrongly put transmission fluid into the engine or drain the transmission* when they're supposed to drain the engine? *pan has drain plug MaceFace Wrote: > How often do garages and quick lube places wrongly put transmission > fluid into the engine or drain the transmission* when they're supposed > to drain the engine? > > *pan has drain plug Most garages know what they are doing. BUT Quickie lubes you are luckie if they even put the drain plug back or oil back. That is one reason they are called quickie jiffie lubes.:grinyes: :rofl: :lol: MT  SignatureMT-2500 http://www.automotiveforums.com > MaceFace Wrote: > > How often do garages and quick lube places wrongly put transmission > > fluid into the engine or drain the transmission* when they're supposed [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > That is one reason they are called quickie jiffie lubes.:grinyes: > :rofl: :lol: One legitimate garage forgot to put oil in my friend's engine and ran it for almost a minute before noticing this. They pulled a head and found some scuffing and ended up installing a rebuilt engine. This was normally a good garage, and they had the class to install a GM crate engine, not a cheap rebuilt or used one, as Wal-mart has been known to insist on when they've made this kind of mistake. I normally do all my own maintenance but may be moving to a place where this won't be possible, and I wonder if garages that accidentally run engines or transmissions without oil add the oil and don't admit anythign to the customers. MaceFace <maceface@nycmail.com> wrote in article <1155062099.824680.319390@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>... > > MaceFace Wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > engine, not a cheap rebuilt or used one, as Wal-mart has been known to > insist on when they've made this kind of mistake. Was it a GM crate engine or was it a rebuilt engine? Apples and oranges........ > I normally do all my own maintenance but may be moving to a place where > this won't be possible, and I wonder if garages that accidentally run > engines or transmissions without oil add the oil and don't admit > anythign to the customers. No more often than when garages forget to charge for something and the customer points it out to them so they can collect for it......... Honesty levels run about the same for customers and shops. > MaceFace <maceface@nycmail.com> wrote in article > <1155062099.824680.319390@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>... > > One legitimate garage forgot to put oil in my friend's engine and ran > > it for almost a minute before noticing this. They pulled a head and > > found some scuffing and ended up installing a rebuilt engine. This was > > normally a good garage, and they had the class to install a GM crate > > engine, not a cheap rebuilt or used one, as Wal-mart has been known to > > insist on when they've made this kind of mistake. > Was it a GM crate engine or was it a rebuilt engine? Apples and > oranges........ I don't know, but it was from GM and wasn't just a GM engine rebuilt by someone else. The original was over 100K old. |
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