Mini Owner Pours Washer Fluid Into Engine Instead Of Oil, Disaster Follows

For most people with even a vague understanding of cars, it is quite obvious that engine oil should be put in the engine.

Unfortunately for one Mini owner in Germany, she never got that memo and when prompted that her car had low windshield washer fluid, she decided that pouring 5 liters of the stuff into the engine would do the trick.

Shortly  after, the woman noticed plumes of blue smoke from her exhaust and took the car to a local mechanic. That’s when the shocking discovery was made.

As soon as mechanics opened up the Mini’s engine, they were presented by a thick, foamy sludge engulfing the engine and underneath, found that much of the block and engine sump were covered in the same thick goo.

The images, posted on Facebook by a BMW Club in France, don’t say what happened next but we suspect the owner was left with two options; sell the car and buy another one or fork out the cost for a replacement engine.