ThunderstundAnchor
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I thought I’d post here and ask for advice. Earlier tonight I got stranded on the highway with two fuel injectors blown out of their holes.
I’ll try and tell the full story.
I bought a Golf 6, 1.6l 2011 model 3 months ago. Drove it and saw that the fuel economy was quite poor, and it would make a ticking noise at low rpm. Living in Kosovo we are used to having poor diesel quality and I left it at that. However it became a concern why my Particle Filter started getting clogged up and the warning light coming on at least once a week. In addition to that occasionally white smoke would come out of the tail pipe (unburned diesel).
I sent the car for a check up when the range displayed for full tank was just 520km. I had a Golf 5, 1.9 and I’d get easily 900km in a full tank. The mechanic diagnosed the problem as being a faulty injector. I sent the injector for a checkup/cleanup and it came back fine. Later on the mechanic advised me to put a type of oil to clean the injectors into the tank. I did that drove for 20km the engine starter ticking hard and then a bang sound came and I stopped the car seeing that I had blown an injector.
I did some research and the oil he put is a type of engine oil for chainsaws. I have used the same oil in all my previous cars with no fault, I had Golf 2, 1.6, Golf 4 - 1.9 and Golf 5 - 1.9.
Now the car is at the shop with a full tank of fuel mixed with 2L of that oil in it and the mechanic insisting that it wasn’t the oils fault!
Should I just go to another one and have the tank drained or should I trust him in fixing the car.
Links:
Oil: https://imgur.com/gallery/SnKVxBm
Blown fuel injectors: https://imgur.com/gallery/do4uSwH
I’ll try and tell the full story.
I bought a Golf 6, 1.6l 2011 model 3 months ago. Drove it and saw that the fuel economy was quite poor, and it would make a ticking noise at low rpm. Living in Kosovo we are used to having poor diesel quality and I left it at that. However it became a concern why my Particle Filter started getting clogged up and the warning light coming on at least once a week. In addition to that occasionally white smoke would come out of the tail pipe (unburned diesel).
I sent the car for a check up when the range displayed for full tank was just 520km. I had a Golf 5, 1.9 and I’d get easily 900km in a full tank. The mechanic diagnosed the problem as being a faulty injector. I sent the injector for a checkup/cleanup and it came back fine. Later on the mechanic advised me to put a type of oil to clean the injectors into the tank. I did that drove for 20km the engine starter ticking hard and then a bang sound came and I stopped the car seeing that I had blown an injector.
I did some research and the oil he put is a type of engine oil for chainsaws. I have used the same oil in all my previous cars with no fault, I had Golf 2, 1.6, Golf 4 - 1.9 and Golf 5 - 1.9.
Now the car is at the shop with a full tank of fuel mixed with 2L of that oil in it and the mechanic insisting that it wasn’t the oils fault!
Should I just go to another one and have the tank drained or should I trust him in fixing the car.
Links:
Oil: https://imgur.com/gallery/SnKVxBm
Blown fuel injectors: https://imgur.com/gallery/do4uSwH