Say you blow your engine up ?
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When the fun car dumped all of it's coolant, hit 130 degrees and fired the water seals.
That. I did exactly that.
In our lounge.
When the fun car dumped all of it's coolant, hit 130 degrees and fired the water seals.
Daston said:
cocopop said:
Continue on just one rotor, get home, pour drink, call garage, plan larger ports.
Yep plus plan single turbo and start watching lots of youtube vids on how to rebuild a rotary.In our lounge.
This happened to me, alfa romeo ts spider. Roof down, just blasted past an audi diesel, all of a sudden massive bang, massive cloud of thick smoke and bits of engine peppering my windscreen and me. Audi driver goes past laughing his head off.
Phone Autolusso and get it towed there for a replacement engine at a cost of 1500 quid.
Not before phoning the highways agency to clear up the oil and bits of engine left on the carriageway
Phone Autolusso and get it towed there for a replacement engine at a cost of 1500 quid.
Not before phoning the highways agency to clear up the oil and bits of engine left on the carriageway
Happened to me 3 times over the years.
1st time in an Impreza on the M25 in 1996. I'd just dropped my then GF off and set off to drive back to Derbyshire. L3, fairly high speed, rattle, rattle, big cloud of smoke, no power. Coast to the hardshoulder, call AA. Get recovered 150 miles home. Phone lease company on the way and get them to deliver a hire car to my home for when I get back. Drop broken car at off at local dealers. Wait 3 weeks whilst dealer fits a new engine.
2nd and 3rd times were in the same Alfa 156. 1st time the oil pump ceased, and the dealers fitted a new engine under warantee, 2nd time head gasket failed and dealers fitted another new engine under warantee.
The benefit of a company car... just phone someone up to come and sort it and deliver a rental.
1st time in an Impreza on the M25 in 1996. I'd just dropped my then GF off and set off to drive back to Derbyshire. L3, fairly high speed, rattle, rattle, big cloud of smoke, no power. Coast to the hardshoulder, call AA. Get recovered 150 miles home. Phone lease company on the way and get them to deliver a hire car to my home for when I get back. Drop broken car at off at local dealers. Wait 3 weeks whilst dealer fits a new engine.
2nd and 3rd times were in the same Alfa 156. 1st time the oil pump ceased, and the dealers fitted a new engine under warantee, 2nd time head gasket failed and dealers fitted another new engine under warantee.
The benefit of a company car... just phone someone up to come and sort it and deliver a rental.
2 are under manufacturer's warranty. Call breakdown service, get courtesy car.
One I have a spare engine for. Call AA home recovery, push it in to the garage.
One I could get a good s/h engine for a few hundred quid. See above.
One I could build a new engine for whilst improving the spec pretty easily. See above.
One (the TVR) I'd have sent to a specialist for a new engine. Have a whisky and move on.
One I have a spare engine for. Call AA home recovery, push it in to the garage.
One I could get a good s/h engine for a few hundred quid. See above.
One I could build a new engine for whilst improving the spec pretty easily. See above.
One (the TVR) I'd have sent to a specialist for a new engine. Have a whisky and move on.
You speak to 10 garages who all umm and arr and refuse the work, you go the a main dealer who price an engine replacement up at more than the value of the car (at 3yrs old) then as a last resort you have to take the car to a respected indipendant and tell them "I don't know what its doing can you take a look" before they call after two weeks and explain that they have to take the engine to pieces. The hardest part is faking surprise, before telling them to go ahead.
£4000 later and a recon engine you sell the car for a huge loss and always have that one car that you wish you hadn't bought.
£4000 later and a recon engine you sell the car for a huge loss and always have that one car that you wish you hadn't bought.
J4CKO said:
mat205125 said:
CaptainSlow said:
I'd be cursing being too tight to buy breakdown cover.
This!First step would be some fault finding ..... It the engine toast, or is it an electrical problem, or is the fluid loss from a split hose?
Next step would be to assess the scale of the problem ...... Is the engine toast, or has it snapped a belt and bent a few valves. Sump off and then head off to look for the root of the problem.
Next step would be damage limitation and economics ...... Is the engine toast, or can it be repaired cost effectively?
Repair? Replace with brand new? Replace with unknown quantity eBay engine? Replace with properly refurbishment, or the correct PH answer ......
Replace with something bigger and better, with uprated parts in place of the junked standard kit
Kind of interested int he different approached, do people have breakdown cover, scrap it, fix it, would you do it yourself or pay ?
Only happened to me with our £500, wife driving, it dropped a valve and destroyed the engine, so made a good one with the broken one and a spare but that is a tiddly 2 cyl, not sure with the 350Z, probably a S/H engine and get on with it
I had similar with an old Renault Scenic that I had, which the turbo blew and it drank it's own oil through the sump and ran the bottom end dry. It would have been an easy repair to replace the turbo, fit new shells, and have the crank ground (with a more in depth check too of course). Economically, it was easier to get a £100 engine from the scrappy, bolt on a recon turbo and throw that into the car with a new cambelt on it ...... That did me another 60k miles, and was still going strong when I sold it on.
It was a Cat C bargain, that was affectionately known as triggers broom
Get AA to take car home, meanwhile you pack everything for the wedding you were on your way to on your back like some sort of donkey and get dropped off at the nearest station.
Let the car sit on the driveway for 5 months while you spend more than you can afford buying parts.
Eventually realise you can't do this yourself.
Send it to a local specialist who f
ks it up.
Take it to another specialist who fixes loads of other things that were wrong, but not what the the first specialist fked up.
Lose sleep over how fked your beloved car is and wish you'd never bought the thing in the first place.
I'm still yet to reach the hair loss due to stress stage but that's me so far ^^^
Let the car sit on the driveway for 5 months while you spend more than you can afford buying parts.
Eventually realise you can't do this yourself.
Send it to a local specialist who f
ks it up.Take it to another specialist who fixes loads of other things that were wrong, but not what the the first specialist f
ked up.Lose sleep over how f
ked your beloved car is and wish you'd never bought the thing in the first place.I'm still yet to reach the hair loss due to stress stage but that's me so far ^^^
If it happened to me I'd try to get a local scrappy to source a similar or identical model of engine to go in that they or I have heard running. Get it fitted locally and sell or trade the car immediately as I would now hate it.
If the car is worth almost the same as the repairs it's probably not worth the money and pain just scrap it. On expensive cars I think a decent aftermarket warranty is probably worth the money. On a cheap car worth a few thousand maybe not you just have to accept the risk, or buy a car under a grand and wait for it be to scrap worthy.
If the car is worth almost the same as the repairs it's probably not worth the money and pain just scrap it. On expensive cars I think a decent aftermarket warranty is probably worth the money. On a cheap car worth a few thousand maybe not you just have to accept the risk, or buy a car under a grand and wait for it be to scrap worthy.
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