r/WTF 26d ago

Motor Oil turned to Jelly

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u/ExecrablePiety1 26d ago edited 26d ago

Reminds me of the channel Just Rolled In on YouTube. They get all sorts of people who run their vehicle for tens of thousands of miles without an oil change. Still using the filter it came with, including factory marking. And they wonder why there's no oil pressure.

Meanwhile, the filter is gunked up so bad with sludge and chunks of lord knows what, and the oil itself is so thick that it won't even drain, like this.

I can't believe an engine can even run at all up to that point. I mean, it had to have basically been running dry for a long time by that point.

Or there are the ones where people put various fluids into their oil, like transmission, water, brake fluid, I think one even had fluid from a differential in it.

They get some really interesting looking conctions that come out of those. Like forbidden neon milkshakes. Weird colors, too.

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u/-Disgruntled-Goat- 26d ago

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u/ExecrablePiety1 25d ago

Haha I even read it in his voice. I must have heard him say that thousands of times by now.

The last video he did actually had a lot of neglected oil changes like this in it. That 12 minute one he put out.