Oil Cap Missing Engine

Then get an oil change.

Oil cap missing engine.

An engine oil cap keeps things safe and reduces the chances of loss. Since bmw replaced the oil filter cap and stem the engine had an adequate oil supply as show with the lack of indicator lights. Get a new oil cap immediately. An oil soaked rag under the hood is a great way to light your car on fire.

By putting tape around the rag and using the rag as an impromtu filter the air pressure of the crank case vacuum will prevent the oil from saturating the rag. Either way the garage owes you an oil cap oil to top your engine off and they have to clean your engine engine compartment. Very few cars if any will throw oil out that tube. It probably got misplaced when they checked the oil level yesterday night.

Some friends of mine just arrived home to visit family for the holidays but discovered part way through the journey that the oil cap on their engine was missing. And driving without oil cap is not safe at all. The car might go some miles without any problem but the damages might cost you to fortune later. But you will get some condensation of oil on hot parts around it and a mess.

Those that do probably have a lot of blow by from bad rings. The danger is the dust that gets in. As far as the under hood foam goes it is there primarily for sound insulation and doesn t pose a fire hazard as long as it is not hanging down onto the engine when the hood is closed. The engine oil cap is one of those important things that people forget to put back on.

A missing oil cap will allow the engine s evaporative system to suck unfiltered air directly into the engine crankcase a surefire costly mistake. Rely on high quality oil cap replacement parts take a look at the amazing an affordable options for replacement fuel caps in our motorad catalog to find the right parts and the right price.