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3oaks
Dec 22, 2016Explorer
dodge guy wrote:Yep. If that much gasoline was getting into the crankcase, something is wrong with the engine.Mortimer Brewster wrote:wrgrs50s wrote:
Whoever wrote this story don't know squat !!!
Actually they do know what they are talking about. This did happen to one of our cars. While doing an engine check I noticed that the oil level was over the full mark. My first reaction was to blame the dealership where the oil was last changed. We brought it in to get some oil taken out. They checked it out and found gas in the oil. They asked if we had been idling it a lot at startup, which turned out to be the case. My daughter had been letting the car idle 5 - 15 minutes to get the ice off the windows rather than scraping them.
If it was dumping that much fuel you would've gotten a check engine light and it would've been running very bad! They probably overfilled it and to not make themselves look bad they blamed it on idling.
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