There she goes!

[golfinz]

Wait a second, you have an aftermarket warranty and you decided to just replace the motor yourself? Or did they find out that you had a tune and wouldn't warranty the motor because of it? These facts don't seem to match up. If I had an aftermarket warranty, and they were giving me the run around, I would have ponied up for a lawyer. 15 grand is a lot of coin to just "give in" for

[rjd598]

Originally Posted by golfinz

Wait a second, you have an aftermarket warranty and you decided to just replace the motor yourself? Or did they find out that you had a tune and wouldn't warranty the motor because of it? These facts don't seem to match up. If I had an aftermarket warranty, and they were giving me the run around, I would have ponied up for a lawyer. 15 grand is a lot of coin to just "give in" for

i wanna know what the deal with the warranty work is

[to///m]

Originally Posted by golfinz

Wait a second, you have an aftermarket warranty and you decided to just replace the motor yourself? Or did they find out that you had a tune and wouldn't warranty the motor because of it? These facts don't seem to match up. If I had an aftermarket warranty, and they were giving me the run around, I would have ponied up for a lawyer. 15 grand is a lot of coin to just "give in" for

Ya for real. More info on what the warranty company was saying?

I hate threads like this

[MFL]

Did your rear wheels lock up?

[MilehighM3]

Originally Posted by golfinz

Wait a second, you have an aftermarket warranty and you decided to just replace the motor yourself? Or did they find out that you had a tune and wouldn't warranty the motor because of it? These facts don't seem to match up. If I had an aftermarket warranty, and they were giving me the run around, I would have ponied up for a lawyer. 15 grand is a lot of coin to just "give in" for

As I said before, there was a camera mounted externally for a reason. It seems the engine was already noisy and the op took it for a top speed run to finish it off, banking on the extended warranty. Then when they found out about mods, they wouldn't cover it.

[Sid3waze]

[QUOTE=MilehighM3;16737628]Eventually the bearing failure could, if beaten on hard enough after spinning. Say if someone wanted a new engine so they went out for an Italian tune up knowing at least one bearing had spun. Not saying that's what happened here, but there was a camera mounted externally.[/QU

I'm not too sure why you would even think that? Most M3 owners that I know own a goPro or 2 and love to capture there daily adventures. Also I did mention that I paid out of pocket to fix my car so that alone shouldve allowed you to rethink your thoughts b4 posting. Also why would I record myself doing exactly what any warranty/insurance company want to see to deny a claim.

[Sid3waze]

Originally Posted by MFL

Did your rear wheels lock up?

Rear wheels started to slip because of the oil spillage.

[MilehighM3]

Originally Posted by germen730

I'm not too sure why you would even think that? Most M3 owners that I know own a goPro or 2 and love to capture there daily adventures. Also I did mention that I paid out of pocket to fix my car so that alone shouldve allowed you to rethink your thoughts b4 posting.

Why wouldn't I? You agreed to pay out of pocket to fix an engine failure, despite the fact you have a warranty? Meanwhile the engine sounded noisy prior to the failure. It seems fishy, like you took the out to finish it off. Most people avoid the excessive wind noise and mount their cameras inside the car. That is, unless you're trying to capture something that may only be seen from outside the car.

[Rupes]

I must admit, I didn't think this was done intentionally at first. I'm still not convinced that it was. But, who names a thread "There She Goes" when their engine blows? That in and of itself sounds a bit like a problem you were anticipating.

[Sid3waze]

Originally Posted by MilehighM3

Why wouldn't I? You agreed to pay out of pocket to fix an engine failure, despite the fact you have a warranty? Meanwhile the engine sounded noisy prior to the failure. It seems fishy, like you took the out to finish it off. Most people avoid the excessive wind noise and mount their cameras inside the car. That is, unless you're trying to capture something that may only be seen from outside the car.

FYI I was recording a race between 2 friends of mines but didnt feel the need to post the 3 min long video so I chopped the most relevant part for this post. Also do you have any experience dealing with 3rd party warranties? Do you know how frustrating it is dealing with them?

[Sid3waze]

Originally Posted by Rupes

I must admit, I didn't think this was done intentionally at first. I'm still not convinced that it was. But, who names a thread "There She Goes" when their engine blows? That in and of itself sounds a bit like a problem you were anticipating.

While most people would be mad and stress themselves over a situation like this I don't. I could've named the thread "F bmw m3" but at the end of the day my car that I do love is fixed, I'm not in financial ruins because of this, and I am living. Shit happens and "there she goes" was just my way of adding a little humor to a shitty situation.

[Sid3waze]

Originally Posted by MilehighM3

Why wouldn't I? You agreed to pay out of pocket to fix an engine failure, despite the fact you have a warranty? Meanwhile the engine sounded noisy prior to the failure. It seems fishy, like you took the out to finish it off. Most people avoid the excessive wind noise and mount their cameras inside the car. That is, unless you're trying to capture something that may only be seen from outside the car.

Here is the full Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZQG...ature=youtu.be

[kerrit]

You would have heard a huge knocking sound and immediate loss in engine power if you spun a bearing, and not a rod thru the block. This is probably not all rod bearing failure.

[SECOND2NONE]

Seems like your car couldnt keep up with your friends, what kind of cars they running..

Dont pay attention to the morons in here.. If your really wanted to finish of the motor it would gave been very stupid to record you doing so at 125 mph.. I have a feeling warranty companies may have a hidden clause about excessive speeds causing failures

And why they hell would someone just give up and pay 15 grand after only 3 months if you were that desperate in the first place to get the warranty to foot the bill

[MilehighM3]

Originally Posted by germen730

Also do you have any experience dealing with 3rd party warranties? Do you know how frustrating it is dealing with them?

Sorry for the negativity, the facts just don't add up here. Yes I do have experience dealing with extended warranties, I do it quite regularly actually. If they didn't cover it, they found concrete evidence not to. Which is why you had to come out of pocket, and the facts still aren't being given.

[Mutter18]

All I was saying here is this is not a bearing failure...It is a Rod or a rod bolt failure. If it was a bearing failure 1st it would have been knocking very very hard. Then over time you might have gotten the rod hot enough that it broke. This is very unlikely it's a bearing issue.

[Sid3waze]

Originally Posted by MilehighM3

Sorry for the negativity, the facts just don't add up here. Yes I do have experience dealing with extended warranties, I do it quite regularly actually. If they didn't cover it, they found concrete evidence not to. Which is why you had to come out of pocket, and the facts still aren't being given.

They kept on asking for a engine teardown at my expense. They wanted ACM to pull the part that failed which is pretty much impossible to do. I decided to fix it myself because I got tired of the back and forth nonsense, I wanted my car back, and I have the money to fix it. So instead of racking up a hefty bill at ACM and still have my claim denied I called it quits. The people at carchex are extremely hard to reach when they know they might have to foot an insane bill.

Not everyone takes the same approach as YOU do in every situation. Some things might not make sense to you but thats absolutely no reason for you to come on my thread flaunting negativity.

[Sid3waze]

Originally Posted by SECOND2NONE

Seems like your car couldnt keep up with your friends, what kind of cars they running..

Dont pay attention to the morons in here.. If your really wanted to finish of the motor it would gave been very stupid to record you doing so at 125 mph.. I have a feeling warranty companies may have a hidden clause about excessive speeds causing failures

And why they hell would someone just give up and pay 15 grand after only 3 months if you were that desperate in the first place to get the warranty to foot the bill

The exact reason why I didnt post the full video is because of how bad they puled on me lol. It was a viper vs audi a4. The exact reason why I didnt post this vid a few months ago when it happened in fear the warranty company somehow got a hold of it. What warranty company is going to covor a motor when the owner was obviously racing. Thats like posting a vid of you crashing at the track and expecting gieco to cover it.

[chris719]

Originally Posted by kerrit

You would have heard a huge knocking sound and immediate loss in engine power if you spun a bearing, and not a rod thru the block. This is probably not all rod bearing failure.

And just how do you think the rod gets thrown?

[Sinful]

Originally Posted by germen730

They kept on asking for a engine teardown at my expense. They wanted ACM to pull the part that failed which is pretty much impossible to do. I decided to fix it myself because I got tired of the back and forth nonsense, I wanted my car back, and I have the money to fix it. So instead of racking up a hefty bill at ACM and still have my claim denied I called it quits. The people at carchex are extremely hard to reach when they know they might have to foot an insane bill.

Not everyone takes the same approach as YOU do in every situation. Some things might not make sense to you but thats absolutely no reason for you to come on my thread flaunting negativity.

Question:
1. Do you have mods, tunes etc on your car?

Comment:
I have always thought that the warranty companies are not going to roll over and say: here is your new engine! Figured you had to fight for it and who wants to deal with that? Engine failures are becoming a weekly event just on this forum. This is happening too often to be only 1% of the motors. Who wants to deal with engine failure in a car that costs so much? M1 or TWS speculation, blackstone reports that you do yearly that apparently dont work for 2011+, warranties that don't want to pay up, this is getting ridiculous. Blown engines every week...this is an expensive toy that should have some kind of reliability since we paid so much.

This is like the Z06, valve train nightmare, everyone was saying at first its a small amount of the population blah blah. Now you go on their forum and everyone recommends you have your valves and valve guides replaced.

This sucks...sorry guys just venting, but everytime I start to feel comfortable someone else blows up their engine.

[gatty1303]

Originally Posted by SinfulM3

Question:
1. Do you have mods, tunes etc on your car?

Comment:
I have always thought that the warranty companies are not going to roll over and say: here is your new engine! Figured you had to fight for it and who wants to deal with that? Engine failures are becoming a weekly event just on this forum. This is happening too often to be only 1% of the motors. Who wants to deal with engine failure in a car that costs so much? M1 or TWS speculation, blackstone reports that you do yearly that apparently dont work for 2011+, warranties that don't want to pay up, this is getting ridiculous. Blown engines every week...this is an expensive toy that should have some kind of reliability since we paid so much.

This is like the Z06, valve train nightmare, everyone was saying at first its a small amount of the population blah blah. Now you go on their forum and everyone recommends you have your valves and valve guides replaced.

This sucks...sorry guys just venting, but everytime I start to feel comfortable someone else blows up their engine.

This is exactly why I'm so worried about getting out of my boss 302 and into a m3. Test drove one the other day and loved it, but I hear nothing but horror stories of people blowing shit up.

[Sinful]

Originally Posted by gatty1303

This is exactly why I'm so worried about getting out of my boss 302 and into a m3. Test drove one the other day and loved it, but I hear nothing but horror stories of people blowing shit up.

I got out of my POS turbo 4 banger because this seemed like an upgrade. However, if your engine is going to blow up, its not an upgrade. Stick the looks and leather, I had over 125k on my 4banger engine and had modified the hell out of it and it was faster than this car with no engine problems. All I picked up is bigger monthly payment and a bigger problem, and honestly I don't modify it because I am too worried about it voiding my warranty or blowing the engine....so on top of everything else its boring because you cant work on it. .....Okay I feel better I will stop now.