Hello,
Could someone please advise me on the following and put me out of my misery soonest.
My son recently bought a Rover 214 actually he got it on Saturday and on the Monday I helped him to check the oil level. The level was slightly high it came up the dipstick to where the profile on the dipstick changes from a flat tape to a thin cylindrical wire.The oil looked to be in reasonable condition ,was not too dark and did not smell particularly burnt.
I asked my son to remove the oil filler cap because I wanted to check for emulsified oil sometimes referred to as salad cream I think. When the filler cap was removed I could not believe my eyes -instead of seeing a nice wet lubricating engine oil there was instead a mid brown tough, no very tough film of what looked to be polymerised oil.
Is this normal or is there something seriously amiss, Is this a cover separating the liquid engine oil below ?
Please excuse me as I do not have a very good knowledge of cars but sufficient to be really concerned about this.
The car is a 1998 model with I think 16 valves.
Thank you in advance for assistance
Paul
Could someone please advise me on the following and put me out of my misery soonest.
My son recently bought a Rover 214 actually he got it on Saturday and on the Monday I helped him to check the oil level. The level was slightly high it came up the dipstick to where the profile on the dipstick changes from a flat tape to a thin cylindrical wire.The oil looked to be in reasonable condition ,was not too dark and did not smell particularly burnt.
I asked my son to remove the oil filler cap because I wanted to check for emulsified oil sometimes referred to as salad cream I think. When the filler cap was removed I could not believe my eyes -instead of seeing a nice wet lubricating engine oil there was instead a mid brown tough, no very tough film of what looked to be polymerised oil.
Is this normal or is there something seriously amiss, Is this a cover separating the liquid engine oil below ?
Please excuse me as I do not have a very good knowledge of cars but sufficient to be really concerned about this.
The car is a 1998 model with I think 16 valves.
Thank you in advance for assistance
Paul