Drove with oil cap off for >200 miles. Lasting damage?
#1
Drove with oil cap off for >200 miles. Lasting damage?
Hi all --
New here, hoping to get your advice!
I periodically go home to my parents, who have a 1995 850 as a 2nd car (not used too often). I recently came home, and we were driving it on a few 1 hour trips, but then I took it on a longer trip from NJ to CT.
After I stopped, I noticed some faint acrid smell, so after checking their fill up log and oil change record, just out of curiosity I opened up the hood.
Lo and behold -- imagine I was seeing this like a hundred miles away from home -- I saw the engine oil cap off and sitting on the engine. As in, an open engine, that has now spewed a huge amount of oil up on to the underside of the hood, and onto the hot engine block.
I was shocked -- I thought, this must be the end of this car, right now. It's going to seize up and die. Or catch fire and kill me right now.
Then, I thought, well, I have no idea how long this has been like this, and it survived for >200 miles of whatever condition this is.
So I went and filled it up with regular old 10w-30, and it took 3 quarts, to the halfway between the two lines on the dipstick.
My question: what lasting damage has been done here? I'm not even going to try and figure out how the cap got left that way. Just wanting to know what we should do to salvage or expect now that this has happened.
Have an oil change, at least?
Thanks!
New here, hoping to get your advice!
I periodically go home to my parents, who have a 1995 850 as a 2nd car (not used too often). I recently came home, and we were driving it on a few 1 hour trips, but then I took it on a longer trip from NJ to CT.
After I stopped, I noticed some faint acrid smell, so after checking their fill up log and oil change record, just out of curiosity I opened up the hood.
Lo and behold -- imagine I was seeing this like a hundred miles away from home -- I saw the engine oil cap off and sitting on the engine. As in, an open engine, that has now spewed a huge amount of oil up on to the underside of the hood, and onto the hot engine block.
I was shocked -- I thought, this must be the end of this car, right now. It's going to seize up and die. Or catch fire and kill me right now.
Then, I thought, well, I have no idea how long this has been like this, and it survived for >200 miles of whatever condition this is.
So I went and filled it up with regular old 10w-30, and it took 3 quarts, to the halfway between the two lines on the dipstick.
My question: what lasting damage has been done here? I'm not even going to try and figure out how the cap got left that way. Just wanting to know what we should do to salvage or expect now that this has happened.
Have an oil change, at least?
Thanks!
Last edited by supernova87a; 06-09-2013 at 05:32 PM.
#2
#3
No oil pressure warning. There was the check engine, but that has been on so frequently due to other issues (shifter switch, O2 sensor, etc) that we've given up on reacting to that day by day. I will check it when it cools down here.
#4
#5
#6
#8
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
hood1227
Volvo S70
28
03-29-2014 11:49 PM
wheelsup
Volvo 850
4
12-24-2008 06:20 PM
quarterdimenickel
Volvo 850
16
10-01-2007 09:37 PM