I was changing my engine oil via the dipstick tube and a special suction device that pumps the old oil out of the sump to be replaced with fresh oil. Unfortunately, i had to patch up a hole in the tube on the suction device with parcel tape/sellotape wrapped around and a small piece of tape (around 2x2 square) fell into the engine dipstick tube and appears to have slid down into the oil sump.Will the oil filter make any difference in keeping melted plastic out of the engine? Am i best calling up the manufacturer, not the dealer as i don't want them to know about my error. The engine still runs and i have driven 20 miles so far with no problems. 2009 year Citroen C1Thanks
I agree, if the plastic piece lodges itself to the oil pump screen, this will severely reduce oil pressure and you will destroy the engine. Only thing to do is to put the car up on the lift, drop the oil pan and hope the part is still in the pan and not circulating elsewhere in the engine, but it should be in the pan probably right next to the oil pump screen. at the very bottom of the oil pan. good luck.......
This is worrisome. As the others say, the worst scenario is the tape gets against the pickup screen and suddenly causes loss of oil pressure. If that happens you will immediately get a low oil pressure warning light but that's something you don't want to happen anyway. However since the piece of tape is 2 x 2 or thereabouts at this point it is almost certainly still rolled up and stuck at the bottom of the dipstick tube. There would not be room for it to easily escape and fall into the sump… yet. There should be one or two screws at the bottom of the dipstick tube to secure it to the engine. If you remove those screws and pull the dipstick tube out, with the dipstick unit, you should find the tape at or near the bottom of the tube. Remove the tape, throw it away, put the tube back in, and sin no more.
if the peice of tape gets 'sucked onto the oil pump pick up screen it will stop lubrication of the whole engine and engine failure. I would get it out asap and do the next oil change in the proper manner.
