C250 Sport - No oil change in 6 years and 50K miles.
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Quite impressive undertaking over these last couple months. Looks like you really dodged a bullet. Hope from here on out you have good luck with it. I would guess you would file this under: Well I won't do that again.
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2013 C250 SPORT, 2014 WRX STI SEDAN, 2017 E300 4MATIC
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Just got back from an hour long roughly 50 mile test drive. No CEL's, smoking. rough idle or anything of the sort. There was a little smoke coming from exhaust manifold that I thought was a leak but its not there anymore so I think it was grease.
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Glad to see you saw this through! However, you won’t know right away of any internal damage. We have to wait and see, you might be really lucky. I agree on oil additives probably doing damage.
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No I am no mechanic professional or otherwise. I would not even call myself a hobbyist - i have worked on cars from time to time but not for fun. It just so happened that I had a blown head gasket and needed to do something about it. The price quotes I got from the dealers and an indie were prohibitively high so that was a no go. After doing some research of what was involved and watching a few YouTube videos - I decided to give it a go.
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No I am no mechanic professional or otherwise. I would not even call myself a hobbyist. It just so happened that I had a blown head gasket and needed to do something about it. The price quotes I got from the dealers and an indie were prohibitively high so that was a no go. After doing some research of what was involved and watching a few YouTube videos - I decided to give it a go.
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I think I can conclusively say that the head gasket issue is solved after driving the car for 2 days about 300 miles since repair.
Before repair:
After:
Before repair:
After:
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What makes you think I did not reuse the oil? You wanted to bet on how long it would last after the repair? Well its 3000 miles since the repair and still going strong.
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3 oil changes already. First after 500 miles, Then after 1500 miles and then at 4500 miles. Next one scheduled at 10000.
