Timing chain disaster

[Josho]

P700DEE said:

I asked my independent about doing the chains and their opinion was don't bother. Its an engine out job and costs £1k. If it fails it is normally just a few bits need rebuilding and typically costs from them about £1.2K.

Sometimes they will snap a rocker or two, sometimes they will bend valves, sometimes they crack the camshafts or the camshaft housing and sometimes the valve heads break off and mash the head and pistons.

It very hit and miss as to how much damage is done.

[Elmatterino]

WoodL said:

Thanks everyone you have been so helpful. I will come back and let you know the outcome whatever happens !
L x

Hi - was this ever resolved? I have the exact same issue with the N47 engine but have a BMW 1 series. A pain to say the least!

[Josho]

Elmatterino said:

Hi - was this ever resolved? I have the exact same issue with the N47 engine but have a BMW 1 series. A pain to say the least!

Where are you located.

[Weekendrebuild]

There does seem to be a problem with the timing chains on these models , however most of these chains are hydraulically adjusted so low oil can and does cause these engine to jump / snap timing chains. Not being funny but a weekly dipstick check is hardly hard work .

[WoodL]

It was proven my car had a fault replayed to supplying the engine with oil. Evans hakshaw paid 2 grand under our extended policy and we paid 1 grand of the bill even though I shouldn't have paid anything. They had my car for 4 months so just wanted it back

[snoopy25]

WoodL said:

It was proven my car had a fault replayed to supplying the engine with oil. Evans hakshaw paid 2 grand under our extended policy and we paid 1 grand of the bill even though I shouldn't have paid anything. They had my car for 4 months so just wanted it back

If it was proven your car had a fault im genuinely interested in how come you ended up paying a grand towards it??

[WoodL]

They tried to say that because BMW charged more per hour than they did our warranty woukd only cover 2k of it... But it only said on warranty that repairs were up to value of car. I argued with them and I waited 4 months for the car to be given the go ahead from Evans Halshaw to be fixed so in the end I gave up arguing and paid the 1k

[stevemcs]

Evans Halshaw only pay £35 per hour plus VAT, this always leaves the customer contributing towards it, the only warranty company that i’ve Come across so far who didn’t question our hourly rate was warranty direct.

[itcaptainslow]

stevemcs said:

Evans Halshaw only pay £35 per hour plus VAT, this always leaves the customer contributing towards it, the only warranty company that i’ve Come across so far who didn’t question our hourly rate was warranty direct.

The best bit was when I worked at a EH dealership the service manager used to try and say we had to charge customers the difference between the warranty rate and the retail rate, even if they’d bought the car from us!

[A1VDY]

Matt Harper said:

Oil tank?

He means the sump.
With 5k plus posts you know exactly what the OP means so why post a piss take??

[RipTrip1]

Whats a timming chain?

[Riley Blue]

RipTrip1 said:

Whats a timming chain?

A typping error.

[eldar]

RipTrip1 said:

Whats a timming chain?

Took you 8 months to ask that? And then miss an apostrophe. Dunce.