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lexsand

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  1. My neighbour works on cars a lot and he says the oil we were using is no use in a car thats done over 100,000 miles and has said that could be the reason we are losing oil, it being so thin. I think its 15/40 he says would be best. I showed him the Lexus manual and he pointed out that the recommended oil was for cold temperatures, not for ours. He'll drain the oil and fill it up with 4.5 of the thicker stuff and see if that solves the problem. Apparantly he's known some other people who had the same problem till they converted to the thicker oil.
  2. My son in law says that the oil looks perfectly normal, and nothing abnormal looking in those place. He used to be a motor mechanic so hopefully he knows what he's talking about. As already said we'll wait until Friday/Saturday and see if the level has gone down again. Its a mystery why it went down in the first place though. Maybe he was in too much of a hurry when he put the oil in the previous week and didn't let it settle? I noticed when he put the oil in this time he didn't let the engine cool down first. I don't know if thats good practise?
  3. We've put another litre of oil in today and see what happens. Theres no smell of burning or black exhaust and the orange light isn't on all the time, it keeps going off and on,. A mechanic told me on the phone that if it were burning oil then thats a big job. Keeping fingers crossed.
  4. Son in law says the waters ok ( he says its a sealed unit ), so don't know what that means
  5. It only gives off a white exhaust when we start up. Its done 120,000 and its a Y reg. We got it off my wifes son, and I don't think he had problems with it. We've had it since August 08
  6. We seem to have an oil problem in that the oil level was up at the second notch when my son in law put new oil in, now, just 4 days later the oil light keeps coming on and its went down to the first ( minimum level ) notch. We had it serviced just recently and we had oil put in there then too. Theres no sign of any leakage and we're puzzled as to whats happening? No oil on the ground when we pull away. My son in law says it may be "burning oil", but as I have no mechanical knowledge I have no idea what he's talking about. Any ideas?
  7. Just to give you all an update on the cam belt problem. We found out the history of the car and the belt was changed at 70,000 miles before my stepson bought it. That means it done 40,000 miles with the new belt in 4 years. ( it had done 115,000 in total ). So it was just bad luck in the end.
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