I brought a 2017 with 274k km in the shop for an oil change the other day. It ended up needing a few other things, front tires, rh frt wheel bearing, alignment... It sat on the hoist for a day before I got it off the hoist while I waited for parts. When I went to drive it out it wouldn't start...Flooded. I pushed it outside and let it sit for about 4hrs then tried to get it going again. Still flooded. I tried again just now(days later). No go. So I tried the go-to replace the spark plugs method(after clearing cylinders out). Still wouldn't go.
I was curious about the compression cause there was a fair bit of fuel dripping off the oil dipstick when I pulled it out.... Compression numbers were pretty low...50-50 and 70. Poured some oil in one cylinder and it went up to 100...
I figured my gauge was effered so I tried it out on a 2015 Mirage with 338k km. 170 all across...
So...I poured a bit of oil in every cylinder and put the old spark plugs back in. It took a few tries but eventually, it fired back up. And smoked like crazy for a few mins. I'm letting it burn off some of the fuel from the crankcase. I'll bring it back in, change the oil(again) and do another compression test just for sharts and see what happens. And I'll road test to see how much of a turd it is or isn't.
I looked back in the service records for this car and the thing flooded out in the shop a few years ago at 120k kms.
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View my fuel log 2014 Mirage SE wussie cvt edition. 1.2 automatic: 37.7 mpg (US) ... 16.0 km/L ... 6.2 L/100 km ... 45.3 mpg (Imp)