Drove truck 1/4 mile with no oil!!!!!

[AlienBug]

I used to run a brake and muffler shop, and personnaly did about 30 or 40 oil changes a week for six years since I was the weakest mechanic and oil changes are the easiest task. In that time I think I started an engine with no oil in it twice. Both times the warning light caught my eye and I shut the car down within a couple seconds.

So either:

A) Non-idiots can occasionally make a mistake too

or

B)See A.

 

[ahoier]

Engines are made to take beatings.

You'd be surprised how many cars roll into Walmart TLE with "dry" dipsticks....a bud of mine works at one locally, and he says they get at least 2 cars a day that roll in, no oil on the dipstick, and the car(s) still running (they happen to be frequent customers...).


That's crazy though.....my guess is the oil pressure light must not have been working properly, or they simply didn't "check" the oil pressure......

At my local WM, they check the dipstick level before, and after the oil service. They shou;d have checked the oil level after they checked the oil pressure to make sure it gained pressure (filter filled properly, and no leaks, etc.....) and there were no leaks in the lower bay area...

But yea, my guess is it may have been a "rush" job. They saw the long list of cars, and we're rushing too quickly.

 

[FastSUV]

When I go to a fast food place and order no lettuce and instead I get lettuce...I blame the person who did it and not always the company they work for (although the company is ultimately responsible).

But the real punishment should come when they do nothing or deny it after you have been wronged...when society breaks down, I plan to hold an event I call "the bearing of grievances" where people who have done such things to innocent hard working folks will be dealt with according to the offense and the type of mood I am in that day, as I casually sip wine from Osama Bin Laden's skull from the throne of my post-apocalyptic kingdom...muhuhuhahaha LOL.

 

[kemo]

Originally Posted By: MrBiglund
Best thing to do in these situations is to floor the gas pedal and cause irreversible damage, so that they quicky lube place is stuck with either changing the engine or the tranny, either way. There is no way, that they can prove in court that their mistake did not cause the damage.


I'm somewhat confident that the defendant's argument is going to include something amongst the lines of "your oil light was on, why did you continue to drive"?

 

[vaboom123]

Like state above the oil change place should check the level before and after. I'm a diesel mechanic and I've had something like this happen before. I was changing oil on a ISX Cummins and filling the oil while spinning on the filter under the truck. It was set for 40 qts and making the normal pumping sound. I went to check it after the gun shut off, and to my surprise there wasn't any oil on the stick. For some reason the gun never released the oil. If I didn't check the stick the truck would've been running dry.