the Oil Pan Incenident
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Joined: 02-16-2009
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From: Frankenmuth/Flint, MI
My friend drove his '99 Lumina for about 5 miles as it was leaking out oil pretty fast, and there wasn't much left when he got home.... Drove with the idiot light blinking. That was two years ago, and his car is fine. We just drove it across the country on our return trip from Denver.
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Joined: 10-24-2006
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From: The Show-Me State
My Mom did that to our '82 Caprice wagon a few months after it was paid off and the tranny had just been rebuilt. Unfortunately, the rock also knocked the driveshaft out of balance and tore up the tranny and rear-end, necessitating the purchase of the '88 Grand Am.
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Joined: 06-10-2009
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From: Northern Utah
it dose not show in the photo, but there is a hole to the right of the rock that the right tire dropped into punching the hole in th epan, then as the tire came out of the hole it lifted the car back up, or she it have got the trans pan too.
As for the oil light or whatever, I know not to ask as she most likely would not have a clue as to what i was talking about. after 18 years of marrage some things you just know o not to ask.
As for the oil light or whatever, I know not to ask as she most likely would not have a clue as to what i was talking about. after 18 years of marrage some things you just know o not to ask.
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Joined: 03-29-2009
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From: Quebec City
Well over the weekend of 4/27/2009, My wife found out just how low to the ground here car really is. She did say it needed an oil change! Only $250 to replace pan, sealer, oil & filter. She drove it home with NO OIL left in the pan, she stopped at here brothers house and left a big puddle of oil and she did even notice it. there was no oil trail out of his driveway to our house, which lucky for us is only about a block.
You're VERY lucky the engine is still alive.
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From: Fairport Harbor, OH
(I slay me).
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Joined: 04-11-2008
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From: Eastpointe,MI.
My ex wife once holed the oil pan on our Mercedes 560 SEL by driving over a curb in a turn around near our house.Drove it all the way to her appointment before discovering the damage she did.Fortunately she didn't drive it any further.
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Joined: 05-13-2009
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From: Western North Carolina
Is that a stock height HHR Jolly? I remember ripping off the drain plug on a dirt bike once. Same thing. Never noticed it out on the track. Saw oil all over the bottom of the bike back in the pits. A rock had been kicked up by my front wheel or another bike. Broke the drain plug right off. Lucky it happened towards the end of the race. No motor damage.
