"tony sayer" wrote in message
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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......
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Tony Sayer


What everyone else said +

I would not got the full 10,000 miles or whatever till the next change, I
would check frequently to make sure the oil is not emulsified (mayonaise
like) and then change again sooner rather than later.

Just saw the mythbusters last night wher they tried all sorts to an engine
and the only thing that looked really bad was bleach in the oil. Made the
engine overheat. Although the other stuff didn't do any quick dammage the
long term effects would have been bad. Other things they did was, 1.sugar in
petrol tank 2.mothballs in petrol 3.penny in carb 4.cola instead of water in
rad and finally an egg in the rad to bung up a leak. Interesting show!

Paul