Who's to blame for this tragic collision?

[screenman]

Completely different. You get a puncture...you can't continue. All modern cars have an oil warning light that tells you when the oil level is getting low. Light comes on....you have plenty of time to drive home and fill up with oil in the garage, or go to a shop or wherever. No need to carry oil, just like no need to carry a jerry can of petrol.

Are you getting confused with oil pressure and oil level?

 

[screenman]

Oil warning light can also come on when losing oil pressure. Lots of people carry on home (like you would have) under this condition and end up needing a new engine when it siezes

Edit: @Bonefish Blues ..... snap again

Lose oil pressure on some engines and you lose brakes or at least to servo part of them as well.

 

[steveindenmark]

Yes i know that due to the name. I was trying to be funny but obviously it didn't work.

You have been now

 

[screenman]

Five pages and you've all missed who was to blame.

It was the Daily Mail's fault - as usual.

Brexit!

 

[Pale Rider]

A person could be forgiven for thinking that you are obsessed about perceived obsession.

While I'm on, there's three dead and one seriously injured in this collision.

Yet some posters are making jokes.

In the cyclist down threads, any comment other than 'condolences' is often frowned upon.

Surely we are not saying the death of a driver and two passengers is somehow less of a tragedy than the death of a cyclist?

Muddle-headed thinking on CycleChat - I can't believe it.

 

[screenman]

Good point.

 

[mjr]

In the cyclist down threads, any comment other than 'condolences' is often frowned upon.

Surely we are not saying the death of a driver and two passengers is somehow less of a tragedy than the death of a cyclist?

No, but this is like the related safety thread that sometimes occurs to deal with any general points raised, not a "motorist down" thread.

 

[tyred]

Lose oil pressure on some engines and you lose brakes or at least to servo part of them as well.

That would depend on the design and why you're losing oil pressure. My uncle had a BMW E36 with the first 6 cylinder BMW diesel engine. The vacuum pump for the servo was driven off the end of the camshaft and when the seals failed in the pump, it lost brake servo and also a serious amount of oil in the process. He was in stop start traffic at the time and if he hadn't pulled over it would have totalled the engine very quickly. I think this was common fault on early TD BMWs but the design is shared with many diesels which need a separate vacuum pump to operate the brake servo as diesel engines don't generate vacuum like a petrol engine.

 

[screenman]

That saved me some typing, my experience was in a Passat, failed oil pump drive.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

The oil light does not come on just because you are low on oil.

No but you check the oil with the dipstick. So you'd know during your regular checks that the engine had oil consumption issues, or not.

If it was fine and lost enough oil to require a top up. Then I'd suggest recovery a better option than driving.

 

[screenman]

My dipstick has three marks to keep an eye on, two are more important that the other one.

 

[raleighnut]

Gazpacho?

Mulligatawny.

 

[raleighnut]

Is that made with real owl?

 

[tyred]

[QUOTE 4560392, member: 76"]Er, I do! I have oil, a puncture sealent kit, a sleeping bag, bungees, a basha, a jumper, a small camping stove, gas canisters, tea-bags, coffee, whitener, a head torch, waterproofs, two boil in the bag meals, 4 litres of water........... I am full on car survivalist![/QUOTE]

How many miles is it to Tescos?

 

[Accy cyclist]

You have been now

I do tend to get Denmark and Norway mixed up. Both are Scandinavian(well at least i think Denmark is) and both national football teams play in red.