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Originally Posted by M3_Singh
adding my car to the list of catastrophic failures. I believe this is a small percentage but it happened to me.
Sorry if this is not the place to put this as I don't use this Forum.
Brief history. We got the car a number of years ago with 30K Miles, it's now on 79K. Never been driven overly hard during our time (it is the wife's car), well serviced and always left to warm up a few minutes before driving, never any hard or sharp throttle during the warm up stage, actuators were done a few years back and any issues were always fixed asap.
My old Golf was out of action so decided to take the M3 to Isle of Man for a road trip. The car was amazing around the roads there. The car/engine was no way on the limit and I only saw a couple of yellow markers on the rev limiter before changing gear. No overly hard down gearing either.
On the way home doing 75 on the motorway I heard a rumbling, I let go of the throttle and an engine warning sign appeared and rev limiter kicked in, looked behind me and smoke started pouring out the back. I pulled over into the hard shoulder as quick as I could. Oil was pouring out the bottom of the engine and my first thought was it's thrown a rod. AA recovered to my trusted garage and we found this ..
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what can I say! I usually drive a 30 year old Mk2 Golf GTI, track days, nurburgring, car shows, late night drives, e.t.c without a hiccup apart from the odd squeak here and there. The first time I take out one of BMW's premium cars and this happens.
There were no prior warning. No noises or lack of power or oil pressure warning or anything.
I thought it's just one of those things until I googled it.
Car is now having the engine replaced with another from a younger M3 and 40K miles on it. Needless to say, the disappointment, I've always loved M cars, specially the V8 but this has made me think twice
We haven't taken the engine apart yet but it's obvious one of the rods has done a disappearing act. If I were on a slower road then this may have been prevented but at 75, it takes time to come to a safe standstill . |
Whoa. I'd love to know what info/diagnosis is uncovered if you guys tear apart the old block to learn more. Keep us updated on here. Hope you're back in the road in no time.