Dealer forgot oil cap during Oil Chane service

[Small Town Raptor]

I had a routine oil change performed at the local dealership 2 weeks ago (Jan 27th). Since the service, I had been smelling a faint burning odor when I would warm up the car on a cold morning - both outside and inside the truck. I initially wrote it off to some residual spilled oil during the service. I just finished a 1000 mile road trip and throughout I could still smell the burning. Yesterday I popped the hood to find half my engine bay soaked in oil, with the cap missing. The cap, surprisingly, was sitting on the radiator shroud just in front of the airbox duct. It must have wedged there with the hood closed. While driving like this, no abnormal eng oil temp/pressure readings (I have those gauges displayed all the time) - no CEL.

Needless to say I was furious and took the truck to the dealer right away. They changed the oil/filter and washed out my engine bay. They said it had only lost just under 1 liter of oil, and when drained, it didn't appear to be contaminated in any way. I voice my significant concerns about crap getting into the engine having just driven in snow storms and salt covered roads.

Did I dodge a bullet or should I be worried?

 

[Antho]

Based on all of the provided information. I have no clue.

 

[Keith88]

If you look at it from a crude engineering stand point.... if chit got out.... chit got in.

 

[Mad Zeus]

I’ll never use a ford dealer after my least experience. I would definitely be concerned and talk to a manager about it if you don’t get assurances there is no damage and they would make good on it if there are problems in the future file a BBB complaint to start .

 

[GordoJay]

Tell them they owe you a new truck and settle for an extended warranty.

 

[New recaros]

I’ll never use a ford dealer after my least experience. I would definitely be concerned and talk to a manager about it if you don’t get assurances there is no damage and they would make good on it if there are problems in the future file a BBB complaint to start .

I would want a 150k mile warranty

 

[New recaros]

Tell them they owe you a new truck and settle for an extended warranty.

Yea, get a new truck. They can’t tell what damage has been done without a complete tear down. The damage could be delayed as dirt moves from the rack.

 

[Muchmore]

It's fine. Dumb, dirty, idiotic, maddening but probably ok. If you look at the valve cover under the filler cap you will probably notice a "plate" directly under the cap. Usually this keeps oil from spewing out when driving if you forget to put the cap on, but longterm driving high rpm's could "mist" oil vapors out everywhere. Push for a warranty or a few @Oldfart goat sessions for sure!

 

[New recaros]

You might have a bigger problem. If the warranty company finds out about this, they would not have to cover the failure. It’s a workmanship issue.

 

[Muchmore]

You might have a bigger problem. If the warranty company finds out about this, they would not have to cover the failure. It’s a workmanship issue.

At only 1 QT low that is a hard sell. I mean Ford won't even give you a motor for oil consumption until it eats what, 1QT in 1000-1500 miles?