Well there's the problem! xD

[Scottie Holden]

Bought a VE Commodore with a dead engine. Original thoughts were the timing chains were stuffed. Still could be a problem but just pulled off the cam cover and...

 

[VS 5.0]

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

 

[Scottie Holden]

This is what happened after the previous owned ignored the 90,000km service warning and continued driving to 116,595km. Found lots of little girly things in the car. Why am I not surprised? xD

 

[monstar]

That’s the worst I’ve ever seen, terrible.

 

[VS 5.0]

27k kms + distance from previous service will do that.

 

[fxxxrr]

The Series 2 Buick V6 motor that i got for nothing and used as my mooring block, was way way way worse than that

 

[Xplaya]

The V6's design from VZ upwards seem to be a **** design. I wonder if the VF have this issue?

My handy 96 Civic has had 2 oil / filter services in 10 years and still start ups and runs perfect to this day lol.

 

[monstar]

The V6's design from VZ upwards seem to be a **** design. I wonder if the VF have this issue?

My handy 96 Civic has had 2 oil / filter services in 10 years and still start ups and runs perfect to this day lol.

I think it’s more just crap oil service intervals and the PCV not coping with crap oil.

 

[commodore665]

I think it’s more just crap oil service intervals and the PCV not coping with crap oil.

Yep , exactly , you'd be amazed about how many people let their cars get to that stage ,

 

[aussieakito]

every single car i do chains on looks like this