2 weeks ago i got my oil changed for the first time since ive had my car; right after i got it changed almost immediately the exhaust was blowing smoke bad. i love cars but don't really know anything about them so i just assumed it was my car adjusting to having fresh oil. (obviously stupid in hindsight) Last Thursday my best friends dad came out and said that it sounded bad so he checked it and found no oil in it. He said it looked like they emptied it and put nothing back in; i put oil in thinking ok it just needs oil and can be fixed, no big deal. Obviously i was wrong, yesterday my car stalled out once (its automatic, not manual) and i thought wow ok i guess i didnt put enough. so today when it was cold i put more in, not long after that it started stalling out more, including once when I was on the highway. After that it stalled out 6 more times today and when i checked the oil again, RIGHT AFTER i had just added more it showed completely empty. Now i can barely drive my car a few feet and it sounds awful. why is this happening?? Also i don't know if this makes a difference but it only stalls out when I'm driving very slow. I'm about to start school, and have to work to take care of my daughter. I'm freaking out, Please any help! Thank you
Keeps stalling out... Desperately need help
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wmburns
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The oil has to be going somewhere. Either leaking on the ground or being burned in the engine. Since you stated the car smokes real bad, my vote it's being burned.
This post is in the tech section. Likely you have serious issues with your car that will need some serious help. Perhaps even replacing the motor.
Perform a compression test and a cylinder leak down test. This will give a good idea what's the condition of the base engine.
Good luck.
PS, driving the car with no oil will ensure that possibly repairable motor is turned into a boat anchor. Don't ever run a car without the CORRECT amount of oil.
This post is in the tech section. Likely you have serious issues with your car that will need some serious help. Perhaps even replacing the motor.
Perform a compression test and a cylinder leak down test. This will give a good idea what's the condition of the base engine.
Good luck.
PS, driving the car with no oil will ensure that possibly repairable motor is turned into a boat anchor. Don't ever run a car without the CORRECT amount of oil.
Mustanglvr2006
New Member
You are not finding any oil on the ground under the car? Who did the oil change? When you say it started smoking "almost immediately" after the oil change, how long after you left wherever you had it changed did it start smoking?
Things that need to be checked.......make sure the oil filter is tight, make sure that the oil drain plug is tight .....If they didn't put back or tighten the oil drain plug you would find oil on the ground immediately after putting oil in the car, if they put the wrong oil filter or didn't tighten it, you would find oil splattered all over that side of the motor and inner fenderwells and probably all down the underside of the car....etc
If you check both of those and everything looks ok there, then you have a much more severe problem, I would then do what WMBURS (above replier) described.
Let us know the outcome, and I'm sorry to hear about this
Things that need to be checked.......make sure the oil filter is tight, make sure that the oil drain plug is tight .....If they didn't put back or tighten the oil drain plug you would find oil on the ground immediately after putting oil in the car, if they put the wrong oil filter or didn't tighten it, you would find oil splattered all over that side of the motor and inner fenderwells and probably all down the underside of the car....etc
If you check both of those and everything looks ok there, then you have a much more severe problem, I would then do what WMBURS (above replier) described.
Let us know the outcome, and I'm sorry to hear about this
So heres the update, this morning as i was calling AAA to have it towed to my mechanic i found a huge puddle of oil in my driveway; which leads me to believe wherever i was adding oil before i just wasn't noticing the oil on the ground cause i didnt know whether or not what was there was already there. so my theory is that yes my oil plug was put in incorrectly causing my car to not retain oil. Im praying that no serious damage was done but i havent heard back from the mechanic yet. Also the oil change was done at tires plus.
Mustanglvr2006
New Member
Well, Tires Plus either didn't tighten the oil plug all the way, or left it out entirely, which I can't see happening, I'm sure he would have noticed 5 1/2 or so quarts of oil on the ground. I wouldn't be surprised if he left it so loose it completely fell out.
I'd go back to Tires Plus and raise some hell, even if your engine is not damaged. I pray for you that motor isn't damaged, but, based on what you said in your first post, it does not sound promising, it sounded like you drove it quite a ways before realizing it had no oil
I'd go back to Tires Plus and raise some hell, even if your engine is not damaged. I pray for you that motor isn't damaged, but, based on what you said in your first post, it does not sound promising, it sounded like you drove it quite a ways before realizing it had no oil
Mustanglvr2006
New Member
Ask your mechanic if the oil plug was even in the oil pan, I'm really curious now.
Keep us updated.
Keep us updated.
Jeffrey
New Member
It's amazing that it ran for as long as it did with 0 oil. The previous record I'd heard of was about 9 miles on a Honda CX500 v-twin. Definitely raise some hell with tires plus, if they're not replacing the rubber washer on the drain bolt and not using a torque wrench to tighten said bolt, then they are not doing their job right.
Mustanglvr2006
New Member
Wow, Thanks alot Tires Plus 
Glad to hear you found a motor, sounds like a good one too, only 40k on it. Hope it doesn't cost too much for the motor and install.
So who you gonna have change your oil from now on? You know you could do it yourself, its really not hard at all, the hardest part is actually getting the oil filter off, I know on my 06 GT its right at the front of the motor and it actually is almost straight up and down making it really easy to get to, and easy putting back on after I fill it to the top with oil, loosing very little to no oil in the process, other than that its just a matter of unscrewing the oil drain plug out of the oil pan, draining the old oil and filling her back up with fresh oil.
Of course you would pull the oil drain plug and drain the oil from the pan before pulling the filter tho. Always get the oil warm first before draining it (by running the car for a few minutes) warm oil drains faster and ensures that you will get more of the old oil out of the motor/pan (think of it like ice cream, when its cold its thick, and if you warm it it gets thinner) <----weird example but you get the idea
Well anyway, if you ever want to change the oil yourself just say so, myself or I'm sure someone would be happy to explain in full detail how to do it.
Keep us updated on the install of the new(ish) motor
Glad to hear you found a motor, sounds like a good one too, only 40k on it. Hope it doesn't cost too much for the motor and install. So who you gonna have change your oil from now on? You know you could do it yourself, its really not hard at all, the hardest part is actually getting the oil filter off, I know on my 06 GT its right at the front of the motor and it actually is almost straight up and down making it really easy to get to, and easy putting back on after I fill it to the top with oil, loosing very little to no oil in the process, other than that its just a matter of unscrewing the oil drain plug out of the oil pan, draining the old oil and filling her back up with fresh oil.
Of course you would pull the oil drain plug and drain the oil from the pan before pulling the filter tho. Always get the oil warm first before draining it (by running the car for a few minutes) warm oil drains faster and ensures that you will get more of the old oil out of the motor/pan (think of it like ice cream, when its cold its thick, and if you warm it it gets thinner) <----weird example but you get the idea
Well anyway, if you ever want to change the oil yourself just say so, myself or I'm sure someone would be happy to explain in full detail how to do it.
Keep us updated on the install of the new(ish) motor
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