For about a week and a half I am trying to convince my wife to agree on buying new rims for the coupe.
yesterday evening after yet a other talk I finally get here to agree on buying new rims for 800 euro's. I was like yay
This morning before leaving to work I realized I better check the oil level before starting the engine up. was about a week ago when I last checked it and it was then at 1 inch below max level.
Having a bonnet that opens really difficult I managed to open it and checked the oil level to find that there was no oil on the stick at all.
Panic struck, put the stick back and checked again, still no oil at all not even at the very bottom of the dipstick.
I filled here up, she took about 1.5 liters of oil before I had here back at 3/4 full and before I ran out of time to keep filling here to max cause I was getting late for work.
While driving to work off course my brain went into overdrive, how long have I been driving with no oil in the engine, how fast did I drive yesterday on the way home... all these stupid questions of regret popped into my head.
Now I am afraid that the 800 euro's I just pried loose from my wife's hands for the rims is going to be spend on the engine cause I was to stupid to check the oil earlier.

1 inch below the max line last week already meant she needed topping up with at least 1 Ltr of oil, 1.5 Ltrs today means your consumption is high so before you go spending money on rims I'd look for the oil leak because she's drinking it somewhere.

I know where she's leaking. about a month ago she had a new turbo refitted. thought that would solve the puddle of oil in the garage problem. after the refit she still had a puddle underneath here. went back to the garage and found out that there's a leak at the flywheel side of the engine, some sort of ring. I can't translate the word from Dutch to English but its a stupid 50 euro piece that's probably worn so much that the oil is leaking out from there. it'll take a lot of work do, gear box needs to be removed etc etc in order to get to the damm thing.
That's why I knew I had to check the oil, cause I know she's leaking, just didn't realize she was leaking so badly to go from almost full last week to nothing on the dipstick this morning. I just hope that this little 'no oil' drive hasn't caused to much problem internally.

Now that is worrying, she's leaking oil from the rear crank seal behind the flywheel so not only is there a chance she'll run out of oil but your clutch friction plate might become contaminated as well

no idea if that is the place she's leaking from, in dutch its called a keer ring. Pretty sure my mechanic got it right and would have told me if there was any chance of contaminating anything else. I will however get it fixed asap. like you said might lay back on the rims and get this sorted first. that way when the gearbox is off he can open it up to see why on earth she's so difficult to put into 2e gear when she's cold.
Just hope I didn't break anything with the oil issue. no idea how much damage that can do driving normal and not that far, around 100 km I assume. we'll see, we'll see.

Shaft seal or oil seal, believe it or not! It sounds like something that has to be fixed sooner (straight away) rather than later.

You need one of these rotary seals...

I agree Neil-r,

wife asked to postpone it a bit when I found out about it but that was before the rims and before she found out this morning about the oil missing from the engine. gone make a appointment with my mechanic asap and get this sorted.

Might be worth checking your gearbox oil level while you're at it

...... and get them to fit a new gearbox input shaft seal as well.

Oke, thanks for the advice.
gone be a costly affair again. hopefully I didn't break or damage anything with this ordeal of no oil driving so I won't be forced to open up the engine in a bit.
thanks for the advice guy's. no rims but ah wel
first get here back into shape is more important.