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Oil filler cap

  • 23-02-2014 10:18pm
    #1
    JAH82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭


    Hey all,

    Lost the oil filler cap from my 98 Toyota starlet. Does anyone know where in galway I could get a replacement?

    Not sure if there is such a thing as a generic oil filler cap or if I have to get a model specific one...


Comments

  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,748 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Your local Toyota dealer will have one. I wouldn't drive it with no cap or you will have oil sprayed all over the engine.


  • #3
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Try a breakers in your local area, might get lucky. There's plenty on ebay, but I'm sure you can't be waiting a few days for one to come off that. Nevertheless http://www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313&_nkw=starlet+oil+cap&_sacat=0&_from=R40


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Ring www.tonyburkemotors.ie and see.


  • #5
    georgefalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭georgefalls


    You can get generic ones in most petrol garages. They just push in. Will do, until you locate the correct one.


  • #6
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    georgefalls wrote: »
    You can get generic ones in most petrol garages. They just push in. Will do, until you locate the correct one.

    That's for your fuel tank - not for the oil filler.


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  • #7
    georgefalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭georgefalls


    Avns1s wrote: »
    That's for your fuel tank - not for the oil filler.

    You can get oil ones as well.. My local Texaco has them :)


  • #8
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    georgefalls wrote: »
    You can get oil ones as well.. My local Texaco has them :)

    My apologies if that's the case. I've never seen them and cant see how'd a push in cap would work all that well as an oil cap.

    Anyway, those caps should be available from any Toyota garage or breakers.


  • #9
    ION08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭ION08


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Your local Toyota dealer will have one. I wouldn't drive it with no cap or you will have oil sprayed all over the engine.

    Not only that but the vacuum created when driving is enough to suck in a whole load of crap from your engine bay which you don't want going into the engine.

    Reminds me of an internet story a few years ago of a guy that used a sock as a temporary measure on his M3 which ended up in disaster. :D

    I wouldn't drive it at all until I got it replaced.


  • #10
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    You should have no trouble getting a replacement, just walk in and ask for a 710 cap.


  • #11
    JAH82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭JAH82


    thanks all, i have ordered a replacement from burkes garage. Will have it tomorrow. Thanks for all the suggestions :)

    Now next problem is, there is oil all over the engine... :( Where in Galway cleans that off? I asked Burkes but they said that due to water regs in the city, they cant do it.


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  • #12
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    A good brush and and elbow grease will set you straight there ;)


  • #13
    JAH82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭JAH82


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    A good brush and and elbow grease will set you straight there ;)

    I thought that as well but was told that I wouldn't be able to clean the belts and around the electrics and that with oil being corrosive, it was only a matter of time before they are destroyed :(


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