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Green1:
And almost every French car from a year old onwards.

matthewmosse:
Worst offenders for oil slicks in my neck of the woods is tractors overfilling the fuel tanks, often you can track the vehicles progress for miles by the slick of diesel. Add that tractors are already not mot tester and the oil leak is actually just red diesel from overruling which is easy to cure and very preventable. Compare these slicks to a leaky old wreck loosing it's engine oil, well by the time your leak is bad enough to leave a noticeable oil slick behind the vehicle as it's on the move, then that engine is terminal and using oil at a rate that makes it very very expensive to run. No mots doesn't worry me too much, I have run these old bikes on a shoe string before, they do not tolerate most of the faults the mot man would fail them on without becoming so horrid to ride and unreliable that you have to fix them regardless of what certificates they might have.

Seabeowner:

--- Quote from: Green1 on April 01, 2018, 05:49:04 PM ---And almost every French car from a year old onwards.

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Had French cars for the last 20 years. Last one needed 2 lots of rear windscreen wipers (yes the front lasted all the time I had it), two bits of back exhaust, one door lock and only one bulb apart from normal service parts in 9 years. Even the battery lasted 8.5 years. One I have now equally zero probs thus far. (8 years)
And the only oil leak I have ever had was when in he south of France I topped up the oil a little and forgot to put the cap back on! If anyone wants to know the oil pressure light comes on when there is about 0.75 litre left! But after begging oil from passing motorists it was up and running.

Green1:
Don't get me wrong I'm not against French cars. French Diesels are almost indestructible. I've just seen many well abused thrashed ones that tend to spit out oil.
I'm a sucker for Italian vans as I've managed to get over 300,000 out of them. I wish my bikes were that good.

Trigger:

--- Quote from: Green1 on April 01, 2018, 05:49:04 PM ---And almost every French car from a year old onwards.

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Had a 306 TD for a few years, running it back and forth to Greece. Never leaked oil, never had the engine apart and sold it with over 1,100,000 miles. The only thing that stopped working was the central locking, so had to put the key in the door lock to open  ;D

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