Here's What Happens If You Replace Your Engine Oil With Coke

As it turns out, engines don’t run so well if you replace the oil with cola…

The poor Ford Fiesta run by Behind The Press - the ‘sister’ effort to the legendary Hydraulic Press Channel - has had a hard life. Last time out we saw one of its brake discs tested to destruction, and since it’s now on its last legs, the HPC lot decided to finally finish it off. By swapping its engine oil for Coke. As in the soft drink, to be clear.

The result is utterly predictable, if perhaps not quite as dramatic as you might hope. The engine does make a fairly sickening noise as it breathes its last, however…