What happens if they over filled the oil?

[Trung911]

I had a 60K service done on my car recently and they had overfilled the engine oil by 1 tick on the electronic indicator and about 1/8 of an inch on the dip stick.

I have driven the car about 100 miles with this condition until they drained the oil out to the correct level. In your opinion, what damage has this done?

Thanks

[Tool Pants]

One bar on the oil gauge is very little oil.

If you have way too much oil it can get sucked into the intake and you will know because of the smoke out side the tail pipe.

Nothing for you to be concerned about.

[Trung911]

One bar on the oil gauge is very little oil.

If you have way too much oil it can get sucked into the intake and you will know because of the smoke out side the tail pipe.

Nothing for you to be concerned about.

Oh, okay. Thanks

[JimB]

A couple of years ago I found out the answer to your question first hand. Before a race two of us added oil to my 3.6L 996. About 3 laps into a 90 minute enduro I turned into a 100 mph mosquito fogger. Oddly it happened within 100 feet of where I had totaled my car in the same race a year earlier. Assuming I had blown the engine I pulled to the side and watched cars fly through the kink at Road America from the wall for the remaining 1 hour and 20 minutes of the race. When we got the car home we fired it up, cleared out the oil and it's been winning races ever since.

Jim

[1999Porsche911]

One of the worse potential results of too much oil is foaming of the oil in the crankcase. This will not allow the thin oil film to properly form between the crank bearings and journals, which can result in a quick and complete destruction of your lower end.