Watched a customer's 2015 Subaru engine seize on the test drive after I missed a quart low on oil during the check-in.

I was at the shop in Denver last Thursday, cruising down Federal with a regular who just wanted a "quick look" before a road trip, and two blocks in the knocking started so loud even he heard it over the radio, so has anyone else had a simple oversight snowball into a total engine failure?

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charles_coleman6d ago

That's rough man, but honestly this just proves a pattern I see everywhere now. People rush through the basics because they're too focused on the shiny stuff or the bottom line, and then one little thing like a quart low brings the whole house of cards down. It's like when a buddy of mine ignored a weird smell from his dryer for two months because he was busy with work, and then the thing caught fire and almost took his whole laundry room with it. Everybody wants to be too busy for the routine checks that actually keep things running smooth, and then they're shocked when the simple stuff bites them in the ass. These cars and houses and even relationships, they all run on the boring maintenance way more than the dramatic fixes.

brookep626d ago

Read somewhere that 90% of engine failures come from low oil issues. Wild how one quart does that.