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I don’t know if a little piece of foil can block the oil flow, but I’m sure that I removed the foil entirely before filling the oil..
But.. I took the car to a mechanic and he told me that the noise isn’t from the engine but from the timing belt.. He removed the timing belt cover and we have seen that the belt was shaking violently, making noise.. Probably the VCT (Variable Camshaft Timing) or a pulley are gone. Due to this failure the timing belt has probably slipped of a tooth, and the engine was out of phase, idling roughly.
At this point I don’t know if the problem was made by the oil change. We decided to demolish the car, and she died during her last trip to the junkyard (maybe timing belt broken?)..
After that we bought a new used car gasoline / methane.. More ecological than only gas! 🙂
Only for academic purpose, the question “why the car dies?” still remain opened. 😉
I’ll try to make the last attempt to save the car, cleaning the oil pan, after I’ll get out from flu :sick:
We thought to demolish the car 1 year ago, so we didn’t change the oil for 12,5k miles.. Then we decided to keep the car a year more, so we changed the oil.. Veeery bad idea..
but yes, I agree.. probably the engine is gone.
At this point I think the only thing to do, is to inspect the oil pan if there is sludge that bocks the oil pump suction. I know that probably the engine is full of sludge, but cleaning (or changing) it, is too expensive for a car that can be found for 500$..
The “oil pressure” and “engine check” lights are off, maybe because there is oil pressure near the oil pressure sensor but the engine still run bad.
I thought the same thing.. Bad or incorrect oil filter, in fact I tried to put back the old one, but nothing! Issue still there. But I’ve read somewhere that an incorrect filter can’t ruin an engine, If there are no leak and the oil pass through it. The diameter is correct, and the vendor where I buy it, gave me a filter from the ford’s catalogue. On the box is written the model of my car. :S