You may come to find the head gasket has a very slow leak into the oil and the use of very cheap oil ( Quaker state oil does that ) lots of parafin ( wax ) in the mix and yes not changing it often enough just my take -- jz

Good lord in heaven........

Last page of the thread I got a heck of a good laugh though. Someone posted "Who in the h### would pay $168 for an oil change?". And someone deadpanned "Obviously not the owner of THIS car!"


Worst I've ever seen was last year getting the 1st 87 inspected (prior to getting t-boned by a Ford Explorer). Lady with a late-model gasser VW Jetta was in ahead of me (at the time I didn't know it was a gasser). After she left, the mechanic showed me the old oil fill cap from her engine. It was covered with thick black oil and crud. I opined that she was pushing her luck letting the oil in a diesel (thinking TDI, that's how black and nasty it looked) get to that state before changing it. He said "That wasn't a diesel, it had a GAS engine, and she hadn't changed oil in 20K miles!".

Seems I remember making a remark that combined words insinuating a lack of intelligence, and a term usually used to refer to female canines.

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Mitchell Oates
Mooresville, NC
'87 300D 212K miles
'87 300D 151K miles - R.I.P. 12/08
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD 67K miles
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