Who's to blame for this tragic collision?

[screenman]

There is also a few inner tubes and a pump in my car, I have stopped and helped many a poorly equipped cyclist over the last 30 years.

 

[Accy cyclist]

And the flags are similar.

Yes, i forgot about that one. Any other similarities?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Both full of foreigners?

Yes that as well.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

No dipstick aparrantly

What is the world coming too?!

It turns out my partners mini is the same. Though light comes on when it has lost 1L

 

[tyred]

What is the world coming too?!

It turns out my partners mini is the same. Though light comes on when it has lost 1L

Just out of interest (as my car pre-dates electrical gadgets), how are you supposed to know how much oil is actually in it and how much you need to add? I suppose you could add oil until the light just goes out and then a further litre but I think I prefer a dipstick.

 

[tyred]

Did, by any chance, your dad check the radiator, oil, and battery, the tyre pressures, and lights on the Moris Minor every Saturday morning?

That's not a bad thing to do no matter what the car. The amount of people driving around with most of their lights not working suggests people should take more interest in maintaining their cars.

 

[mjr]

That's not a bad thing to do no matter what the car. The amount of people driving around with most of their lights not working suggests people should take more interest in maintaining their cars.

Or have their cars recycled...

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Just out of interest (as my car pre-dates electrical gadgets), how are you supposed to know how much oil is actually in it and how much you need to add? I suppose you could add oil until the light just goes out and then a further litre but I think I prefer a dipstick.

Light comes on at 1L loss. So you just put a 1L bottle of oil in.

That mini will happily sell you

 

[tyred]

Or have their cars crushed...

That's a bit of a waste.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Did, by any chance, your dad check the radiator, oil, and battery, the tyre pressures, and lights on the Moris Minor every Saturday morning?

Does a ford pop count?

 

[simon.r]

Just out of interest (as my car pre-dates electrical gadgets), how are you supposed to know how much oil is actually in it and how much you need to add? I suppose you could add oil until the light just goes out and then a further litre but I think I prefer a dipstick.

I was surprised that there wasn't a dipstick. The answer is you don't know how much oil is in it!

Through trial and error the answer to how much to add, on this particular car, was somewhere between 500ml and a litre, which was enough to stop the oil warning light coming on for the next 1000 or 2000 miles.

 

[DanZac]

I' m no vehicle mechanic and possibly slightly off topic but can someone please explain how Audis oil loss figures of a liter per 1000 miles is acceptable. If a modern engine is losing oil it must be either leaking or burning it.
If its leaking then thats a big dirty enviromental mess and if its burning it then surely its either leaking past the piston rings (loss of compression etc), going through the turbo (eventual engine runaway once it starts to get enough oil to fuel the engine through the turbo and become self sustaining) or burning it some other way probably leading to early DPF failiure.
Sounds like a manufactureres get out to me for a ×××× engine design and either way a pretty unplesent experiance to anyone behind them and an expensive eventual outcome for both the owner and the enviroment.

Edited having discovered the Audi engine in question is petrol and not diesel. Most comments still apply though.

 

[simon.r]

It looks as if Audi acknowledged the problem and did something to fix it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1Q2rXBpVsXVQ12hVFmxMBjP/audis-oil-guzzling-issues

http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/thread...-2015-ongoing-thread-2009-2011-models.237270/

Although they both make reference to 500ml / 1000km, I'm fairly certain that I was told 1 litre / 1000 miles.

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4560880, member: 9609"]50 mpg and a litre of oil every 1000 mile is 90:1 so your comment about 2 stroke aint all that exaggerated (my chainsaw is 50:1)[/QUOTE]
My outboard's 100:1.

The smell of two-stroke exhaust is almost as good as bacon.

 

[slowmotion]

The attraction of the smell is largely due to the toys that use the fuel.....outboards, mowers, chainsaws, brush cutters, disk cutters, portable generators etc. Fun stuff. I draw the line at poncy leaf blowers, BTW. Modern petrol is rumoured not to keep for as long as it used to, and certainly doesn't smell as good as leaded. I've spent far too many hours trying to coax grumpy outboards into life so I always use fuel that's fresh from the garage, even if that means trashing the older stuff.

The outboard is an ancient Yamaha 4AC.
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/685231/Yamaha-4ac.html?page=21#manual