How do you bend a rod?

[Frimley111R]

I appear to have done so on my Megane R26. Although high mileage the engine seemed very strong but the racket its making after a TD appears (from other forums) to indicate a rod is bent. How does that actually happen? The engine wasn't highly modified, just a basic map that had been on for years. I guess its 'dead' now but in the interests of avoiding this in future....

[Frimley111R]

stevieturbo said:

Frimley111R said:

I appear to have done so on my Megane R26. Although high mileage the engine seemed very strong but the racket its making after a TD appears (from other forums) to indicate a rod is bent. How does that actually happen? The engine wasn't highly modified, just a basic map that had been on for years. I guess its 'dead' now but in the interests of avoiding this in future....

you appear to have done so...with zero evidence to support it, other than someone on the internet saying theirs did ?


hmmmm. gonna be another one of those threads.

Well it wasn't just one, quite a few of them said it was the rod. Here's the death rattle video...

https://youtu.be/P1oHbFhm4wY