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Well as the title says my truck apperently suffered a drain plug washer failure, and dumped almost all of its oil. My guess is human error, Heres the story just FYI.
Truck is 6 months old, just had its 3rd oil change at the dealer 6 days ago, I'm away at work so the fiance had been driving the truck, comes out from whatever store she was in spending my money and noticed a pool of oil under the truck, luckily for me she is a first year automotive mechanic
, she immediatly crawled under to see wtf was going on. Checked the dipstick and it was just under the low lvl line so I got lucky!
She said there was oil EVErywhere underneath the truck and no way to tell where its coming from. Knowing it just had an oil change done first thing she suspects is the filter/drain plug, wipes them both off and what do ya know, dripping from the god dam drain plug, she wrenches it a bit and its tight so she puts some oil in it and drives straight to the dealer.
They appologize up the *** and pay for her cab home and back, they told her that the seal around the drain plug wasn't sealing properly?! they cleaned all the oil and gave her another change and fill, adding in a hand full of free car wash coupons. Lucky for them my fiance isnt a dumb ***** and kept driving it or they would have been replacing a little bit more than the oil and a crush washer lol
Has anybody else had this issue, from what I have been reading these are recommended to be changed everytime the plug is removed? which I think is kind of silly but look what just happened to a brand new truck.. ... Maybe they just over torqued it and split the washer?
Truck is 6 months old, just had its 3rd oil change at the dealer 6 days ago, I'm away at work so the fiance had been driving the truck, comes out from whatever store she was in spending my money and noticed a pool of oil under the truck, luckily for me she is a first year automotive mechanic
She said there was oil EVErywhere underneath the truck and no way to tell where its coming from. Knowing it just had an oil change done first thing she suspects is the filter/drain plug, wipes them both off and what do ya know, dripping from the god dam drain plug, she wrenches it a bit and its tight so she puts some oil in it and drives straight to the dealer.
They appologize up the *** and pay for her cab home and back, they told her that the seal around the drain plug wasn't sealing properly?! they cleaned all the oil and gave her another change and fill, adding in a hand full of free car wash coupons. Lucky for them my fiance isnt a dumb ***** and kept driving it or they would have been replacing a little bit more than the oil and a crush washer lol
Has anybody else had this issue, from what I have been reading these are recommended to be changed everytime the plug is removed? which I think is kind of silly but look what just happened to a brand new truck.. ... Maybe they just over torqued it and split the washer?