Barsteward!is the garage a car tuna? or just an everyday mechanics?
Barsteward!is the garage a car tuna? or just an everyday mechanics?
crying with laughter!Cod only knows what you have done to the engine, you garage could be throwing you a red herring though, so the second opinion may throw something up.
You could Perch it up some axle stands, take the 2 front eels off and have a flounder about underneath. If all else fails hit it with a hammerhead and ride your pike to work for a few weeks until you find a replacement engine.
Congrats mate, I don't know that much about fishing, but that was reely useful info.Cod only knows what you have done to the engine, you garage could be throwing you a red herring though, so the second opinion may throw something up.
You could Perch it up some axle stands, take the 2 front eels off and have a flounder about underneath. If all else fails hit it with a hammerhead and ride your pike to work for a few weeks until you find a replacement engine.
is the garage a car tuna? or just an everyday mechanics?
I'd be surprised if the sole reason for this problem was the taking in of water, also was your s3 tuna'd?
I did not know you could claim on the insurance for engine damage? be careful you dont have undeclared mods as insurance co,s are sticklebacks for that kind of thing...
Well done CLSmooth for ignoring this bunch of cheeky buggers lol...
Bad times mate... hydrolock on a std airbox would be pretty unlucky unless there was a leak (and a big one) elsewhere... TIPs (turbo inlet pipe) have been known to split or be loose enough to draw air in and could well be in a position to draw water in... that said the std air intake horn is in the wing cavity and its plausible that a big enough splash could have found its way up there...
Hope it gets sorted ok for you...
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Yeah i hope it is not as bad as first thought mate, ive heard of the RAC looking into the oil filler to see if the tappets are moving and condemming an engine, even though you cant see anything as it has a splash guard............
Update on this and a warning to all S3 drivers.
Water found in the pre turbo inlet and the air filter. A slight amount of water (less than half a cup) had got into engine and was unable to compress. This stripped the cam belt (8000 miles old) of a large amount of teeth. In turn with the engine now out of time the pistons contacted and damaged 12 of the valves in the top of the engine. Valves require replacing and new cam belt required, should be able to be rebuilt.
Watch of for those puddles guys!
think its time u got urself a badger5 v2 to prevent future splits etc
u could get a filter sock aswell if ur really paranoid
Oh and forgot to mention, the fully comp insurance I had did not pay out!!