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So what do you do at that point? New engine? Or do you flush it with oil for an hour and hope for the best?
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New engine. If they hadn't tried to start it with the washer fluid in the oil, you might get away with a couple of flushes. However, once you whip it into tart apple mouse, I'd wager the crank is shot.
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Oct 29, 2017 20:14
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Memento posted:Couple from the front page of imgur. Ah yes the "stiff peaks" phase of beating your motor oil.
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sharkytm posted:New engine. If they hadn't tried to start it with the washer fluid in the oil, you might get away with a couple of flushes. However, once you whip it into tart apple mouse, I'd wager the crank is shot. Someone who is ignorant enough to put washer fluid in the oil fill port was almost certainly ignorant enough to drive it until it stopped running; Thing is probably locked up tight.
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Oct 29, 2017 20:52
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There is a Toyata Corolla crash test 1998 vs 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xidhx_f-ouU
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Memento posted:Couple from the front page of imgur. The stupidity on display is truly impressive
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Oct 29, 2017 23:13
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Englishman alone posted:There is a Toyata Corolla crash test 1998 vs 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xidhx_f-ouU Why was the 98's airbag removed? Also, that 15's a-pillar failed. That's uh...not cool.
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Oct 29, 2017 23:27
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where are they finding these perfect 20-year-old cars to smash
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Oct 29, 2017 23:33
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Have you met Toyota owners?
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Oct 29, 2017 23:43
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Jeez, with how terribly that 98 did, I'm surprised they thought an airbag would do anything anyway
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Oct 29, 2017 23:47
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Godholio posted:Why was the 98's airbag removed? Disagree that the a pillar "failed"
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Oct 29, 2017 23:51
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It bent and creased a bit, but it still prevented anything from getting into the passenger area.
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Oct 29, 2017 23:53
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I almost did that windshield fluid into the wrong part of the car thing once. Then I noticed the big flapper valve-looking seal with a windshield on it and poured it into the correct tank instead.
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Years ago when I was still wrenching, a friend of mine's father noticed some clear water under the car after he got home on a hot day. It was aircon drain, obviously. So of course he assumed his coolant was leaking and poured water into the engine until it was full. He left it there overnight, and then started it the next day to go to work. He made it down the end of the street before it poo poo itself. Brand new VT Calais, so this would have been 1997. It should be something told to all car buyers when they pick it up. If you don't know exactly what the gently caress you're doing, leave the 710 cap alone.
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Oct 30, 2017 00:30
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Godholio posted:Why was the 98's airbag removed? ANCAP is Australian. Airbag in a 1998 AU delivery Corolla was a $900 option. I think Toyota was one of the few at the time prepared to have the option as its own line item (i.e. not packaged): Around that time I remember it being pretty typical to stump up for a CD changer and alloy wheels you didn't want to get the airbag you did want.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I almost did that windshield fluid into the wrong part of the car thing once. Then I noticed the big flapper valve-looking seal with a windshield on it and poured it into the correct tank instead. Guilty as charged...Coolant and washer flaps were next to eachother. Did a radiator change then topped it up realizing my mistake. Blame it on the "I'm in the home stretch let's get it done". Caught it and was able to drain the tank. But dumping into the crankcase...yikes.
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Memento posted:Years ago when I was still wrenching, a friend of mine's father noticed some clear water under the car after he got home on a hot day. It was aircon drain, obviously. So of course he assumed his coolant was leaking and poured water into the engine until it was full. He left it there overnight, and then started it the next day to go to work. He made it down the end of the street before it poo poo itself. Brand new VT Calais, so this would have been 1997. He thought he had a leak and thought just filling it back up would fix it?
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Cojawfee posted:He thought he had a leak and thought just filling it back up would fix it? Yup. It's that whole thing with people being successful at something, and deciding that means they're successful at everything. The guy was the national manager for a maritime insurance company, made a ton of money, "I can fix that how hard can it be?" kind of mindset.
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Godholio posted:Why was the 98's airbag removed? It says in the description that the airbag, along with abs, were part of a $990 option.
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That interior shot of the 1998 Corolla makes me loving cringe.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:That interior shot of the 1998 Corolla makes me loving cringe. and the accident was pretty horrifying too
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Fermented Tinal posted:It says in the description that the airbag, along with abs, were part of a $990 option. I somehow did not realize these weren't US-spec. Edit: And yeah I guess the pillar didn't quite fail, but it's certainly at it's limit. Edit2: V Yeah, I noticed it the second time. Godholio fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Oct 30, 2017 |
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Godholio posted:I somehow did not realize these weren't US-spec. The US spec cars are not normally shipped with right hand drive. 
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Sagebrush posted:and the accident was pretty horrifying too This was good and I appreciated it.
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Cojawfee posted:Jeez, with how terribly that 98 did, I'm surprised they thought an airbag would do anything anyway My van is based on a design from 1994 and has an airbag. I assume it's to lull you into a false sense of security before the A-pillar, dash and engine smash you face clean off.
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Oct 30, 2017 10:14
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They should really tell new drivers "if its screwed on dont touch it" Washer cap is usually the easiest one to get at so even if all the markings are gone and you are blind you could just go by what opens easiest.
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I had a friend do the opposite and fill oil into her coolant reservoir. She drove a couple hundred kilometers like that until the nagging feeling in the back of her head that something wasn't quite right got the best of her and she let a mechanic check it out. They flushed it a couple of times and it seems alright...for now.
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Well I mean yeah, oil isnt as good but its also part of the cooling system and doesnt hurt anything in that environment.
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Extra lubrication for the water pump 
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That's probably the most harmless automotive fluid fuckup you could make. I guess aside from the fact that whatever reason you needed to add oil still applies. As long as the oil doesn't cause the coolant to sludge up I'd expect it'd work just fine. Lots of poo poo can cause coolant to sludge up though so I wouldn't be putting poo poo willy-nilly in to my cooling system.
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Cars designed in the 90s weren't all bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8J7B9lqPSE
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What speed do they do these tests at? Because my head-on was at about 35 in a 2008 and it had that level of damage where it initially looked repairable, but once the adjuster saw it they wrote it off. These cars are getting unbelievably hosed over, are they doing this at 50 mph?
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Was it a direct head-on? Most of those videos are offset crashes, where the same amount of force is going through generally <50% of the car's structure, along with loading it asymmetrically (hence why you see stuff like crash-side A-pillars folding like a limp noodle while the other side is mostly intact). Straight head-ons are way easier to design for.
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The cars are probably more well-aligned to one another than in a real world collision. They're hitting dead nuts on (with respect to the offset) with not a lot of deflection until the crumple-zones have crushed. Remember, they have to simulate worst-case scenarios.
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Mine was an offset.. basically driver's headlight to driver's headlight, not a 50% like these videos show. edit - actually, loading up the old pictures I guess it was a lot more glancing than I remembered. Nevermind then! 
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xzzy posted:What speed do they do these tests at? Because my head-on was at about 35 in a 2008 and it had that level of damage where it initially looked repairable, but once the adjuster saw it they wrote it off. US testing is at 40mph.
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MrYenko posted:Someone who is ignorant enough to put washer fluid in the oil fill port was almost certainly ignorant enough to drive it until it stopped running; Thing is probably locked up tight. And if I recall the story correctly, he was stupid enough to add several *gallons* of washer fluid. Like, what car ever has taken more than one gallon of washer fluid?
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Small overlap tests nowadays are like 20% or something, aren't they?
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Sagebrush posted:and the accident was pretty horrifying too Well-played.
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Adding washer fluid to the coolant loop probably would be pretty benign, right? It's still mostly just water and the methanol content should help keep the freezing point depressed. Better than running the engine with the coolant low, anyway.
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