Ford Focus: Black Oil following Serivce

"Nick Harrison" <freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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Yes it's normal - if you get used engine oil from a diesel on your fingers
(not recommended - it'll take days for the staining to wear off!!), you'll
understand why the small amount of old oil left in the engine after draining
turns the new oil dark so quickly - it has similar properties to black dye.

Cheers, Mark

In message <crp4rf$4ve$svr.pol.co.uk>, Nick Harrison
<freeserve.co.uk> writes 
I can't comment on the Focus TDCi specifically but I've previously owned
a couple of diesels for a total of ten years and the oil does blacken
very quickly from new.

If you said you had a petrol engine then I'd be suspicious but even
before reading your post, I knew with reasonable confidence from the
subject line that it would be about a diesel engine.

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"Nick Harrison" <freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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This is rather disconcerting, but perfectly normal! I remember on my TDCi's
first service, it was reasonably clear after driving about a mile up the
road to work, but after the 30 mile drive home it was black. My Astra DI was
the same. Mind you it burnt about a litre and a half of oil between services
anyway! In case anyone asks, my TDCi burnt about half a litre before its
first service, and nothing noticable after that.



G.

In alt.autos.ford.focus Nick Harrison <freeserve.co.uk>: 
 

That's fine, you should start to wonder if it wouldn't get black
pretty fast. It just shows the capability of good oil keeping
dirt in abeyance.

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