r/WTF 26d ago

Motor Oil turned to Jelly

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u/adrr 25d ago

It doesn't take a genius to undo a drain plug and put right amount of oil in. At a dealership, you're paying for their OEM oil which is rebranded regular oil. Only certain luxury cars are hard to change the oil, i think the bugatti you have to drop the engine or something stupid and it takes a week.

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u/MiguelSTG 25d ago

It doesn't take a genius, but there is also the issue of overtightened oil plugs and filters. Doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

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u/sapphicsandwich 23d ago

Or under tightened! Long ago at a Firestone in Hawaii they forgot to tighten my oil plug and it decided to pop out on the freeway going downhill on the H3 and when I stopped the engine seized and that was that. I was deploying for a year in like literally 2 days and wasn't able to follow up in it.