Today my check engine light came on at the same time my engine seemed to have lost a significant amount of power and felt like it only fired on a couple of the spark plugs every couple of revolutions. Limped car home as the power came back very intermittently. Once going, the engine did better but still experienced an intermittent sputtering. Whenever it was slowed or stopped prior to being turned off in the parking lot, the car had extremely bad idle and the sputter was terrible.
Pulled trailing plugs out and it was drenched in oil. It is also difficult to tell if this came from inside the engine, but there was a lot of muddy gunk around entrance of the plug. I pulled it out and I think the gunk was only on the outside, but the threads had some of it for sure, along with a lot of oil.
Generalized history of vehicle: I generally keep really good care of the car but bought used at 36k. Currently has 53k. Track it about 100 miles a year. Changed plugs 4 times since I've bought the car out of necessity as it has experienced a slight loss in power before and the check engine light comes on, but never this bad and never with oil all over the trailing plugs, before. I almost always rev the engine above 7k rpm after it has warmed up every time I drive it. I put fuel lubricant in there and Idemitsu oil. I know for a fact the people before me didn't take care of the car. Supposedly the car passed compression tests prior to me buying from a Toyota Dealership, however, I have had significant issues with that dealership, along with many discoveries of lies about my contract and the vehicle's condition (not getting into that). I wouldn't be surprised at this point if the engine was "going" from purchase and I was able to baby it for the `20k miles I put on it.
Is my engine blown?
Pulled trailing plugs out and it was drenched in oil. It is also difficult to tell if this came from inside the engine, but there was a lot of muddy gunk around entrance of the plug. I pulled it out and I think the gunk was only on the outside, but the threads had some of it for sure, along with a lot of oil.
Generalized history of vehicle: I generally keep really good care of the car but bought used at 36k. Currently has 53k. Track it about 100 miles a year. Changed plugs 4 times since I've bought the car out of necessity as it has experienced a slight loss in power before and the check engine light comes on, but never this bad and never with oil all over the trailing plugs, before. I almost always rev the engine above 7k rpm after it has warmed up every time I drive it. I put fuel lubricant in there and Idemitsu oil. I know for a fact the people before me didn't take care of the car. Supposedly the car passed compression tests prior to me buying from a Toyota Dealership, however, I have had significant issues with that dealership, along with many discoveries of lies about my contract and the vehicle's condition (not getting into that). I wouldn't be surprised at this point if the engine was "going" from purchase and I was able to baby it for the `20k miles I put on it.
Is my engine blown?
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