Oil Burner
Putting this up on behalf of a friend.
Long story short:
My 2003 1.2 16v Billabong Clio has been leaking oil from the breather on the gearbox while on the motorway. It is fine on shorter journeys on all other roads.
I bought it from a garage back in April and they have tried fixing the problem by replacing the gator and putting a much longer breather on. This didn't do the job so I suggested they had the wrong oil in it and too much of it. They had a look and they had indeed put too much oil in and the wrong stuff...
This appeared to fix the problem and I didn't have any problems on the motorway journey home and I hadn't really been on it since. But I recently drove to Wales and back as well as driving to Swindon and back from Chippenham everyday last week. Even on these short 1 junction motorway journeys its leaking oil from the top of the breather.
I have opened the filler cap on the front of the gearbox and oil didn't spill out so this suggests it hasn't been overfilled.
Really at a loss what it could be causing this now. All advice appreciated!
Long story short:
My 2003 1.2 16v Billabong Clio has been leaking oil from the breather on the gearbox while on the motorway. It is fine on shorter journeys on all other roads.
I bought it from a garage back in April and they have tried fixing the problem by replacing the gator and putting a much longer breather on. This didn't do the job so I suggested they had the wrong oil in it and too much of it. They had a look and they had indeed put too much oil in and the wrong stuff...
This appeared to fix the problem and I didn't have any problems on the motorway journey home and I hadn't really been on it since. But I recently drove to Wales and back as well as driving to Swindon and back from Chippenham everyday last week. Even on these short 1 junction motorway journeys its leaking oil from the top of the breather.
I have opened the filler cap on the front of the gearbox and oil didn't spill out so this suggests it hasn't been overfilled.
Really at a loss what it could be causing this now. All advice appreciated!