Checked the oil in the Saxo

"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock) 09/20/2015 at 10:41 • Filed to: None

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Found none. Uh oh.

No leaks so it must just have been consumed over time. It has no service history and no dipstick (seriously the dipstick has been snapped off) so god knows how long it’s been like this. It has a lot of top end noise. I had to use a bike brake cable with grooves filed into the end as a dipstick.

fhrblig > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 10:55

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No bueno. The last time a car of mine had no oil in it, it punched a quarter-sized hole in the cylinder wall. Only about 150 miles from home, too.

Leon711 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 10:55

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Won’t be long till knocking occurs.

MultiplaOrgasms > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 11:06

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Kind of surprised it survived for that long.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > fhrblig 09/20/2015 at 11:07

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I topped this one up so hopefully it survives a little while longer. It has to...

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Leon711 09/20/2015 at 11:08

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Perhaps. Hopefully not.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > MultiplaOrgasms 09/20/2015 at 11:09

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Me too. It's had terrible top end noise since we got it. Maybe they're just meant to sound like that..

RWS Motorsport > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 11:57

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has the top end noise been there the whole time, or just whilst cold? My Focus has a slight valve tappet noise when cold which goes away when warmed up.

Hopefully an oil top-up will give you a few 1000 more miles from it.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > RWS Motorsport 09/20/2015 at 12:00

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It stayed after a 20 mile drive so I reckon it's constant. I just posted about a timing belt issue too. I'm thinking this car has to go.

RWS Motorsport > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 12:03

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Ouch. Thats a shame. Would it be worth just running it into the ground, and once it dies it dies? Rather than trying to be free of it beforehand?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > RWS Motorsport 09/20/2015 at 12:05

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Well we might still be able to get a few quid for it while it's still running.

RWS Motorsport > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 12:07

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Very true. You’ll still get between £80 and £100 for it scrap if it did grenade its engine, but yeah sounds like a tough situation. Hopefully it plays ball for the time being.

AndyG_UK > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 12:12

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They were very top end rattley engines from new tbh!

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > RWS Motorsport 09/20/2015 at 12:12

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Yeah I hope so. This is what happens when they buy cars without consulting me first...

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > AndyG_UK 09/20/2015 at 12:13

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That’s... good I guess? Haha.

I really hate this little car right now.

RWS Motorsport > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 12:16

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Ah yeah, that’ll do it. I managed to talk my housemate out of an RX8, bearing in mind he has never owned anything high maintenance before, so a car with that level of oil consumption and service intervals he was on a road to terminal rotary failure. Pushed him towards a Hyundai Coupe 1.6l instead, all the show, none of the go. Its nice when people listen to car guys about car things.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > RWS Motorsport 09/20/2015 at 12:21

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I would’ve made them get something like a Yaris owned by an old lady with service history. It’s literally just for commuting and they don’t care about cars so it just needs to be reliable. I bet your friend is glad he listened, that RX8 would’ve been a nightmare haha. My parents didn’t even consult me on the Saxo (I was away at the time). I was pretty annoyed when I found out. They don’t have the cash to be buying junk cars all the time.

RWS Motorsport > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 12:25

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Yaris seems like a great choice, that or another Micra (but less rusty). Well hopefully the Saxo will work out ok, or a new cambelt and tensioner wont be too costly.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > RWS Motorsport 09/20/2015 at 12:27

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Finding a rust free Micra is like finding a needle in a haystack with only your sense of smell. I doubt we’ll bother changing the belt, there’s so much else wrong with the heap there’s no point.

Leon711 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 13:22

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From experience, if that happens chuck the car away.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Leon711 09/20/2015 at 13:36

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Yeah I’m not interested in replacing big end bearing or crankshafts haha.

Amoore100 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/20/2015 at 14:00

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We killed a Honda J35 V6 by letting it run for some time with very little oil...my dad apparently had not grasped the concept that engines consume oil and had assumed that the clattering was because we needed a valve adjustment..six months later the van went into the shop under its own power and the diagnosis was a new engine...has run beautifully since then on its new (used) 60K mile engine and my dad now checks oil nearly every weekend in all three of our cars, so everything seems to have worked itself out for the better in the end...

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Amoore100 09/20/2015 at 14:59

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I’ve been told top end noise is normal on these cars so hopefully I caught the low oil just in time. No knocking or other death sounds yet.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/21/2015 at 03:32

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it’ll be fine , my lancer used to consume oil like there was no tomorrow.

duurtlang > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 09/21/2015 at 04:45

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Have you tried just purchasing a new dipstick? They’re €10-15, from the dealer. In both my 406 and 306 the plastic of the dipstick became brittle and eventually broke. With the 406 I replaced the dipstick when this started, and zero problems occured. The 306 had a broken dipstick when I bought it, the plastic was all but gone. It sucked air and didn’t run right. With a new dipstick, which cost peanuts, it was a lot better. It made me able to accurately measure oil levels as well. It’s such an easy repair.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > duurtlang 09/21/2015 at 11:10

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I’ll probably get one soon if we keep the car but I’m pushing to get rid of it at the moment.