tony sayer wrote:
Alright a bit OT!! but my ditzy daughter for some unknown reason went
and dumped around a litre of Antifreeze down the oil filler of her
Mondeo earlier. Fortunately she realised her mistake and some muggins
looks like having to do an Oil change tomorrow;(.

If she had run the engine would this have harmed it at all?.

Never heard of anyone doing this before always a first time I suppose!
Anyone any ideas on what the outcome might have been if it had been
started?..

TIA......



Happens all the time when head gaskets go - in fact that's one of the clues.
Happend to me about two months ago on a Daewoo Lanos and over a week, about
gallon of water/antifreeze mixture was 'dumped' into the sump whilst I was
using the car - this being 'boiled' off after starting in the morning and
during driving.

Not a situation that you could leave for too long though!


Brian G