So i noticed an oil leak in my drive way the other day. So i waited a few days thinking it could have been my parents truck or my gf's car. well needless to say it was mine. My neghbor lookd at it for me one day while I was out hunting and he said it looked like it was my timing chain cover. so the following day i looked where he told me on the pass side of the motor and it looked like a little wet spot were oil was running down. so i took it to the dealer...
At the dealer I tell them what I saw and what i thought it was, so they pulled it in the back to take a look. an hour later the service girl comes to the waiting room and says to me (in a very rude manor) "who does your oil changes?" so i answered with, "penzoil the oil changing place by my house." she then proceeds to tell me in the same rude tone that "who ever they are they need to learn how to change oil, you are suppose to change the oil drain pulg with every oil change." She then told me that they would fix it and only charge me for the diag.
I know you do not need to replace the drain plug ever, but i let them fix it anyways and told her that if it still leaked i would be back...
Has this happened to anyone else? Im sure she ment a rubber "O" ring on the draing plug but still, she was a bitch! lol
Probably meant the crush washer that is supposed to be changed with each oil change.
I buy my filters from my dealership just to be nice but they never give me a ring. The hyuandai place gave my mum one when she got filters back before she got a Buick.
"I buy my filters from my dealership just to be nice but they never give me a ring. The Hyundai place gave my mum one when she got filters back before she got a Buick."
If you buy the filter kit from the dealer the crush washer is loose sealed in the oil filter box..
ok so let me understand this. everytime i change my oil i have to change the gasket on the drain plug? i've never had to do this before on any of my car's. so where do i get these gasket's/crush washer's at.
Same thing happened to me at first and I do my own oil changes. Got a new washer from Kia for oil change number 2 and 3 and same problem. So I went and bought a cheap 5 pack of nylon washers from crappy tire. Work like a charm! I think it only cost $2 for the 5. Kia washers are crap!
Oh. My. God. Can these be bought locally? It says on the website I'd need an adapter, did your car new one?
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Awesome, you have no idea how excited this thing just made me.
__________________ They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them. When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave our today.
So i noticed an oil leak in my drive way the other day. So i waited a few days thinking it could have been my parents truck or my gf's car. well needless to say it was mine. My neghbor lookd at it for me one day while I was out hunting and he said it looked like it was my timing chain cover. so the following day i looked where he told me on the pass side of the motor and it looked like a little wet spot were oil was running down. so i took it to the dealer...
At the dealer I tell them what I saw and what i thought it was, so they pulled it in the back to take a look. an hour later the service girl comes to the waiting room and says to me (in a very rude manor) "who does your oil changes?" so i answered with, "penzoil the oil changing place by my house." she then proceeds to tell me in the same rude tone that "who ever they are they need to learn how to change oil, you are suppose to change the oil drain pulg with every oil change." She then told me that they would fix it and only charge me for the diag.
I know you do not need to replace the drain plug ever, but i let them fix it anyways and told her that if it still leaked i would be back...
Has this happened to anyone else? Im sure she ment a rubber "O" ring on the draing plug but still, she was a bitch! lol
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Originally Posted by DevilsX
It's a known problem, my mechanic buddy at Kia told me this in confidence. It's got to do with bad sealing from the mfr plant.
I don't get why the dealer or anyone here would blame the drain bolt for an oil leak that is clearly coming from the timing cover...I noticed a wet stain on my block on the pass side near the middle part of the engine before the first oil change, dealer dismissed it. I checked it again after the second oil change and it has gotten worse and looks to be coming from the timing cover area more obviously now. Taking it to the dealer as a walk-in tomorrow. I really hope they don't try to give me the run around but at least its documented from the first time I mentioned it.
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