Lord_Lucan
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Hi,
Thought I'd give the car a quick oil change and air filter change today whilst I had a bit of spare time. I've covered 8k miles since purchasing from a used car dealer who claimed to have serviced it as part of the "pre-delivery inspection"
Well the air filter was a dirty and discoloured as I've ever seen and the oil filter was actually fused into the plastic housing and disintegrated into dust on removal leaving the top housing in situ.
Cue lots of swearing and having to puncture the fused plastic thing with a screwdriver and hammer and levering it out and having to clean out all of the fragments of the disintegrated filter. That thing must've been in there at least 2 years if not longer which may well be what the service schedule says but I've never seen anything like it before.
Oh and top it off...using my pela pump I got just under 10 litres of oil out of it!
****** dishonest dealers and cowboy mechanics!
Thought I'd give the car a quick oil change and air filter change today whilst I had a bit of spare time. I've covered 8k miles since purchasing from a used car dealer who claimed to have serviced it as part of the "pre-delivery inspection"
Well the air filter was a dirty and discoloured as I've ever seen and the oil filter was actually fused into the plastic housing and disintegrated into dust on removal leaving the top housing in situ.
Cue lots of swearing and having to puncture the fused plastic thing with a screwdriver and hammer and levering it out and having to clean out all of the fragments of the disintegrated filter. That thing must've been in there at least 2 years if not longer which may well be what the service schedule says but I've never seen anything like it before.
Oh and top it off...using my pela pump I got just under 10 litres of oil out of it!
****** dishonest dealers and cowboy mechanics!