Oh dear, only had my sport about 8 weeks and tonight on my way to pick my son up, we suffered a bad breakdown.

Doing about 70 on dual carriage way

Sudden loss of power
Strange noise - rattling clunking
Oil light

Didnt have the sense to put it in neutral, but i am sure id have done this in a manual?

I think engine had stopped by the time id come to a halt

Big pool of oil running from under the car

Son and friend stranded in corby for 1.5 hours
Great service from cmg recovery, driver very helpful

So what do we think full engine or hopefully just a turbo ?
135k full history and serviced week before last

First port of call is to check the oil filter has been fitted correctly

I would have it recovered back to the garage who serviced it, before touching the car. Get them to remove and inspect the oil filter while you are present. If the oil filter is squashed at all, then this is what will have caused the engine failure

I am speaking from experience here:



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Ouch  MY2007 RRS TDV8 Black - tinted glass - side steps- stormer grille - 20" diamond cut alloys - alpaca leather - TV/DVD pack - some blingy chrome bits & bob's

Turned out to be a new short engine ouch ! Apparently only one of the pistons was still connected to the the crank. I'm told the new block is supplied with the crank from the 3 litre engine which is much stronger.

A week later the alternator failed !

Let's hope that's it for a (long) while, love the car tho.

Did you find out what caused the engine to go bang ? and im assuming it was originally a private sale if you had to pay for this after 8 weeks

Yep private sale

As to what failed I assume the crank. I never did clarify with my garage although they did say they have never seen an under tray with so many engine bits in it. it's happening quite often according to them.

she is running sweet as a nut now though as I guess one would hope !

As disco_mikey said it could have possibly been a badly fitted oil filter and the time scale since having a service and going bang could possibly be down to that maybe but going to be almost impossible to prove now

If it was at my local garage around the corner I'd have checked this out thoroughly, but it's a specialist whom I trust. I know the lads in the workshop, they know their stuff.

ok if you can trust them

Was it an 2007 year out of interest

No it was registered December 2005,