Scott,
That reminds me of the time that my bro-in-law stopped at a filling
station (what is now known as a full service station) with his Renault
Dauphine. The attendant checked the oil and announced that it was a
quart low, so Phil told him to add the quart. He did, and Phil drove off.
A few minutes later the temp gauge went off the end and the engine
boiled over. Apparently the attendent read "EAU" (water) on the radiator
filler as OIL.
That was a great car for us, at a time when the CT beer-buying age was
21 and NY State was only 18. There was a rubber plug at the bottom of
the front trunk on the car, so a screen placed there would retain the
ice, and a round trip to NY would get the car back with a trunk full of
cold brew.
Bob
>I had something similar happen on my Honda about ten years ago.
> I had loaned it to my brother for a while, and he took it to the
>local Jiffy-Lube or Jet-Lube, I can't remember which. When I got the
>car back, one of the old receipts said that they had topped off the
>power steeing reservoir with one pint of fluid. Problem is, the 1981
>Prelude never had power steering! best I could figure, they poured a
>pint of P.S. fluid into the clutch reservoir. Never had any problems
>with it. I figured that if nothing had happened in the 2000 miles
>between when the shop did it and when I got the car back from my
>brother, nothing bad was likely to come of it.
>Scott
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