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Originally Posted by Pittsburgh63

Engine is completely shot. Waiting to hear back from my guy once/if he tracks something down. Don't know how the hell I'm gonna swing this tab...and it was the only family vehicle we have. This sucks monkey balls.

What were the symptoms when your vehicle broke down?? What year and how many miles?? One of the main causes of engine failure is lack of oil. Not saying you negated to check the oil or that you ran it low, the engine could have had a small oil leak somewhere and it just wasn't very noticeable. Do you trust your mechanic??

TweetSomething in the oil line blew. Just had the oil changed about 1500 miles ago. Not sure if it was something negligent on their part or just a freak thing.

TweetShit so you ended up starving the engine of oil? i would make sure it wasnt some one else fault brother

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Originally Posted by Pittsburgh63

Something in the oil line blew. Just had the oil changed about 1500 miles ago. Not sure if it was something negligent on their part or just a freak thing.

I'm not 100% familiar with the equinox but most modern car engines do not have any external oil lines other than for the transmission. Like sfg said, I'd be asking a lot more questions as to exactly what happened. Just trying to help. If it was someone else's fault they should be footing the bill for the engine replacement.

TweetPitt if you were any closer Id do all the labor for you. The beauty of once owning a tuning shop.

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Originally Posted by rmewrench

I'm not 100% familiar with the equinox but most modern car engines do not have any external oil lines other than for the transmission. Like sfg said, I'd be asking a lot more questions as to exactly what happened. Just trying to help. If it was someone else's fault they should be footing the bill for the engine replacement.

Didn't literally mean an oil line..but a gasket or the filter failed... that's just from what I noticed when looking at it. My dad went up while I was at work to get the details...just haven't had a chance to hear what's up.

TweetLet us know brother. either you got screwed on this or someone is responsible either for a part that needed recall or the person who changed your oil that car is way to new to be having total engine failure unless you beat the balls of it and as you said its a family car so i doubt that is the case

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Originally Posted by Pittsburgh63

Didn't literally mean an oil line..but a gasket or the filter failed... that's just from what I noticed when looking at it. My dad went up while I was at work to get the details...just haven't had a chance to hear what's up.

The filter shouldn't fail unless it was struck by road debris or something like that, or it wasn't installed properly. This happened to a guy I know that got his oil changed at Wal-Mart. The Wal-Mart mechanic didn't even put a oil filter back on and on his way home the oil light came on. He pulled over before any engine damage was done. Anyways.. Just trying to help. I hate to see you pay for someone else's mistake.

Tweet^ happended 2 me. the gasket that was on the old filter stuck to the motor so when we put the new filter on it didnt seat right and pissed oil everywhere thank got i wasnt driving and just letting the motor idle

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Originally Posted by sofargone561

^ happended 2 me. the gasket that was on the old filter stuck to the motor so when we put the new filter on it didnt seat right and pissed oil everywhere thank got i wasnt driving and just letting the motor idle

This is why I tell people to take their vehicles to the dealer for oil changes. Most dealers rates for oil changes are competitive with the jiffy quick lubes. I cant change the oil and filter in my f250 diesel cheaper than the Ford Dealer. Not only that, a factory trained tech is doing the oil change, they are more than qualified to do so. Most places like walmart hire anyone off the street that says they can swing a wrench. Another thing is dealers will and have to pay for their mistakes. Way higher level of service.