Golf R MK7
I drove over an L-bracket made of steel. It cleared the front skirt but put a three inch wide inch hole in the oil pan -- which is made of PLASTIC FFS.
Drove the car low rpm for about 2 minutes before limp home mode kicked on -- Basically said to drive less than 4000rpm. About 30 seconds later a red emergency action message said to shut off the engine. About 5 seconds later, I was off on the shoulder with the engine off. Total distance driven since impact was about 1.1 miles at low rpm.
Towed it to the dealer, replaced the pan, oil, bolts, gaskets, and filter. So far so good.
This is the part where I am may be feeling some paranoia. I now notice a rattle mostly on cold start but some times warm. It sounds like the valves arent lubricated. The rattle disappears after one to three seconds. This is normal in some cars as it takes time to push oil through the valves but I never noticed it before on this car. So maybe I am hyper sensitive to the sounds now or do I have a problem?
Thoughts flowing through my head are...
1. It was only 5 seconds from the red idiot light to shutdown but 1.1 miles seems like a long way to go with big ass hole in the pan. Could I have damage in that kind of time span?
I plan to put a 1000 miles on it and send an oil sample to a lab. I am considering doing a compression test. Maybe a leak down test.
Am I being paranoid here?
2. Shouldnt there be an anti-drain device that prevents oil from draining from the valve train? Could that be damaged if I am suddenly hearing valve noises on cold start?
3. Five or ten minutes after the car was stopped on the road, the pan was still dumping oil on the side of the road. It was a small but steady stream. I offer this information as a reference point that the car was totally out of oil. I dont have a good notion of how much oil dropped out of the car after it was stopped. It was raining that day but there was a an oil slick behind the car as far as the eye could see.
Do you guys have any thoughts here?
I drove over an L-bracket made of steel. It cleared the front skirt but put a three inch wide inch hole in the oil pan -- which is made of PLASTIC FFS.
Drove the car low rpm for about 2 minutes before limp home mode kicked on -- Basically said to drive less than 4000rpm. About 30 seconds later a red emergency action message said to shut off the engine. About 5 seconds later, I was off on the shoulder with the engine off. Total distance driven since impact was about 1.1 miles at low rpm.
Towed it to the dealer, replaced the pan, oil, bolts, gaskets, and filter. So far so good.
This is the part where I am may be feeling some paranoia. I now notice a rattle mostly on cold start but some times warm. It sounds like the valves arent lubricated. The rattle disappears after one to three seconds. This is normal in some cars as it takes time to push oil through the valves but I never noticed it before on this car. So maybe I am hyper sensitive to the sounds now or do I have a problem?
Thoughts flowing through my head are...
1. It was only 5 seconds from the red idiot light to shutdown but 1.1 miles seems like a long way to go with big ass hole in the pan. Could I have damage in that kind of time span?
I plan to put a 1000 miles on it and send an oil sample to a lab. I am considering doing a compression test. Maybe a leak down test.
Am I being paranoid here?
2. Shouldnt there be an anti-drain device that prevents oil from draining from the valve train? Could that be damaged if I am suddenly hearing valve noises on cold start?
3. Five or ten minutes after the car was stopped on the road, the pan was still dumping oil on the side of the road. It was a small but steady stream. I offer this information as a reference point that the car was totally out of oil. I dont have a good notion of how much oil dropped out of the car after it was stopped. It was raining that day but there was a an oil slick behind the car as far as the eye could see.
Do you guys have any thoughts here?
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