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Paulster2
Paulster2
18:27
I was looking at badges today and saw that there was a new gold badge awarded for "Famous Question":
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Q: Accidentally poured engine oil into the coolant reservoir

LeopardSkinPillBoxHatMy 1990 Mazda 626 leaks oil like a sieve, so I regularly top up the oil. In a moment of stupidity, I opened my radiator cap instead of my oil cap while topping up my engine oil, and poured about 50-100 mls of engine oil into my radiator. What implications is this likely to have on the car?

oil radiator coolant
The question I have is, do people look at this type of question because they have done this themselves, or possibly wondering what type of person would actually do this? I remember when I was a young-un, the father of my girlfriend at the time told me her previous BF had put oil in her car's radiator ... never understood how it happens, but I guess it does.
 
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Bob Cross
Bob Cross
23:03
@Paulster2 I did something similar way back in the day: I poured windshield wiper fluid into the car's coolant expansion tank. My Dad took it as a lesson that he should be a bit more specific in exactly what he wanted me to do where.
@Paulster2 Hah - I ducked out when things started getting super personal. It seemed like a good time to walk to the other end of Sydney and drink a bunch of beer. Beer: it motivates long walks. :-)
Larry
Larry
23:42
Hey you guys want to participate in Winter Bash 2014
I guess we could ask on meta but no one visits it either
this event will run from 15 December 2014 to 4 January 2015. Users will be able to see their entire hat collection on winterbash2014.stackexchange.com. That site will also have a landing page, explaining the rules and other details of the event.

Individual users who don’t want to participate, don’t want to see hats, and/or are generally anti-hat will have an “I hate hats” option available. And just like last time, at the end of the event, all hats will go back into storage.

The only visual change to the Stack Exchange sites themselves will be the presence of the hats and the “I hate hats”…

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