Say you blow your engine up ?

[J4CKO]

Was just pondering the cost per month thread and someone mentioned crying "if it went pop" and was wondering what the usual response to it is ?

So, you are on the way home, its early afternoon on a nice nice day, some music on, accelerating hard onto an A road, 20 miles to go, you hear a loud bang, some grinding and then there is silence and no drive, you coast to a halt on the hard shoulder, you see a trail of fluid, steam, some oily smoke and some "chunks", a quick look under the bonnet confirms it is pretty terminal.

What next ?

[J4CKO]

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

The scenario is there are "chunks" of it on the road.

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

[J4CKO]

pisdonthread said:

cocopop said:

Continue on just one rotor, get home, pour drink, call garage, plan larger ports.

the exact same thing i was thinking

Call into a Spar for some new Dairylea Traingles ?

[J4CKO]

benters said:

bqf said:

Actually, heres a funny story. One of the dads at my sons school bought a Bentley Conti convertible. Brand spanking new.

2,000 miles in - kaboom - conrod destroys engine.

Bentley gave a loan car and are replacing the engine. I'd be furious.

just shows that the higher the price doesn't always mean a guarantee of higher quality. . .as has been said, these things happen, if your getting a loaner and a replacement engine, I guess there is not much more Bentley could do.

I think that regardless of quality, failures occur, it is a complex array of mechanical components spinning in close unison, quite a lot to go wrong, material defect, manufacturing defect, sods law.