Ok, so it seems that I have had a massive noddy moment.
A month ago I popped a litre of oil in the van to top it up as the MFD had told me to do so (this is quite normal for my van, I have always found it needs a top up in the year it is not serviced with it being on long life).
Fast forward to last night. Mrs B had used the van and as she reversed it on the drive I noticed this funny haze in front of the van (very obvious when you have the awesome led headlights - would possibly have never seen it if I had H4’s
). I get her to pop the bonnet - yes she did know where to find the release, and I can only capture it as abject horror as I looked into the engine bay and saw everything covered in oil. Look a bit closer still and see that there is no oil filler cap present.
Parked it up since you can’t sort crap like that out in the dark. Today I found the oil filler cap down the side of the battery. This tells me one thing, being a right royal tit I can’t have put it back on after filling it up. Fortunately the dipstick is still reading right the middle of min and max - phew, won’t have damaged the engine.
So now I have the tidy-up to do. I’m thinking about giving it a damn good spray down with degreaser and then pressure wash/ steam clean.
Does anyone have a recommendation on degreaser that won’t balls anything up in there, but that will equally shift oil?
Oh and if you could respond without p155ing yourself, that would be equally appreciated!
A month ago I popped a litre of oil in the van to top it up as the MFD had told me to do so (this is quite normal for my van, I have always found it needs a top up in the year it is not serviced with it being on long life).
Fast forward to last night. Mrs B had used the van and as she reversed it on the drive I noticed this funny haze in front of the van (very obvious when you have the awesome led headlights - would possibly have never seen it if I had H4’s
). I get her to pop the bonnet - yes she did know where to find the release, and I can only capture it as abject horror as I looked into the engine bay and saw everything covered in oil. Look a bit closer still and see that there is no oil filler cap present.Parked it up since you can’t sort crap like that out in the dark. Today I found the oil filler cap down the side of the battery. This tells me one thing, being a right royal tit I can’t have put it back on after filling it up. Fortunately the dipstick is still reading right the middle of min and max - phew, won’t have damaged the engine.
So now I have the tidy-up to do. I’m thinking about giving it a damn good spray down with degreaser and then pressure wash/ steam clean.
Does anyone have a recommendation on degreaser that won’t balls anything up in there, but that will equally shift oil?
Oh and if you could respond without p155ing yourself, that would be equally appreciated!
