Were you having a problem with oil use/consumption and were you having to add oil on a regular basis? How many miles did you have on your Maverick, when was your last oil change?The aftermath
Even though it needs an oil change, I did added a half of quart of 5/30 weight oil at 28,000 miles ( 32300 miles current) and basically I’ve been checking my oil usage and around 7,500 miles the oil level would be a half of quart low. Is that normal for a recommend 10,000 mile oil change. What’s really my concern is that service record from the Ford dealership , I was reading that the first two oil changes, the oil weight was 5/20 and not 5/30 weight. The last oil change used 5/30 , that shouldn’t be an issue of using the two different weights . Have any one else notice of the oil weight the dealership uses?
In my opinion 10,000 is way too long of an interval.
I wonder if the explosions were the tires blowing from the heat. Also, was the oil fill cap missing or loose - that might explain oil all over the underside of the hood.The aftermath
Like David Bowie sang “putting out fire with gasoline” RIP David.
As said by others, so thankful you and family are safe!
I doubt the dealership used anything other than 5w30. The OP is probably mistaken, or if it's typed on the service work order then I would suspect a typo. I doubt they even have 5w20 on hand. (EDIT: it has been pointed out to me that non-turbo Fords often do use 5w20, and if that was actually used, it certainly wouldn't be healthy for the engine but it wouldn't fail right away. Still betting on octane.
)The main reason for oil getting diluted with fuel is the GDI fuel injection on most turbo if not all turbo engines. This is because of poor mixing on especially cold start ups. The good or bad thing is that if you let the oil get up to temperature the fuel will “burn” off from the oil. Short trips add to the dilution problem. This is one reason for port injection being used with direct injection. It is much better for light load performance, GDI kicks in when things get serious.
Yes. Or any other number of remedies. It's hard for the OP to hear but a great warning or reminder for everyone else. A lot of things can cause a check engine light and some of them are not a big concern. But any kind of engine performance issue is an instant park-it-and-stop-driving event. Oil spraying under the hood honestly should be extremely obvious that you should not drive further. It doesn't matter if the vehicle is insured, under factory warranty, or not.
A friend of mine who is a bad ass mechanic had some free oil changes with the purchase of his new Nissan Frontier. That year Frontier uses 3w-30. The dealership put 5w-20 in it. The dealership said they didn’t stock 5w-30, BS. I couldn’t believe he was okay with that except for the fact that he is very tight with his money. Most non turbo Fords use 5w-20, my 2019 F150 takes 8.8 qts of it.
And I guess they had no mechanic at this rural station, no tow truck, and was the only building within a mile. No other locals willing to call a tow truck who are pumping gas either. Yep, makes perfect sense now. He was in the Twilight Zone.
Half of Fords on the road require 5W20, why would a Ford dealer not have it?
His original explanation noted that he didn't think a tow truck could get positioned to load his Maverick at the gas station, which is not where the problem began, so he went to the parking lot. None of us know what he was seeing, so why all the Monday morning quarterbacks?
