B6 Passat Engine Blown?

chrismon

1.9 110 bhp diesel.
Driving on the motorway at 120 when there was a bang, smoke, warning lights, and a serious rattle (felt like a blow out).
Opened the bonnet and there's oil everywhere.
Only picked her up from a service 15 miles ago!
Is this common?
Waiting for the garage to pick us up.

Gazzmonkey

Is it diesel or definitely oil?

Tail Docker

They do like to throw a rod...common enough.

Titzon Toast

It's a bit coincidental that it's decided to blow up so soon after a service though. Did this happen on the way back from the garage by any chance?

chrismon

Definitely oil.
Serviced her yesterday.
What's the crack if its the conrod?

mickdw

chrismon wrote: »

Definitely oil.
Serviced her yesterday.
What's the crack if its the conrod?

Replace engine if it's conrod

chrismon

Yep its the conrod.
New engine it is so.
Could it be related to the service?

Seweryn

chrismon wrote: »

Could it be related to the service?

Only if they put incorrect oil, too much or not enough of it.

mickdw

chrismon wrote: »

Yep its the conrod.
New engine it is so.
Could it be related to the service?

Did it do just 15 miles after the service?
Id be looking at all possibilities tbh.

chrismon

mickdw wrote: »

Did it do just 15 miles after the service?
Id be looking at all possibilities tbh.

Yeah 15 miles would have been the max it done.

JC01

Get an itemised receipt for the service stating how much oil was put into the engine. Although since the garage already knows what happened they may cover themselves there IF they were in the wrong in the first place.

ba_barabus

Common issue and a co-incidence I'd say. I doubt very much the garage did anything tbh. If they had done something iffy with the oil such as too little oil I doubt you'd have made it 15 miles without any issue

chrismon

Its a tricky situation alright.
Not sure where to go from here.

BorneTobyWilde

Surely if you're insured with fully comp then it's an insurance claim?

mickdw

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Surely if you're insured with fully comp then it's an insurance claim?

Nope.

Bigcheeze

Wouldn't be too little oil as there would be an obvious warning light. Wrong type oil won't do immediate catastrophic damage.

Xpro

If it was the garages fault and they only serviced the car, what could have they done?

No1: Too little oil- ( oil light would have came up, and this would not cause the rod to break)

No2: To much oil ( again, it wouldn't throw the rod, but it could blow the seals and runaway.. Btw you would need tons of extra oil for that to happen)

No2: wrong filter, etc ( not associated with the rod)

I would say it is a pure coincidence, it just turned out to be this way... BXE engine by any chance?

Very common for BXE/BKC to throw a rod out. Google will reveal some of the horror story with the above mention engine code.

2nd Engine will be your best bet.

Interslice

Can you not just replace the piston, sump and conrod if it hasn't damaged anything else. Or does it do more damage to the crank etc.?

Xpro

Interslice wrote: »

Can you not just replace the piston, sump and conrod if it hasn't damaged anything else. Or does it do more damage to the crank etc.?

You'll the find the block is damaged if the rod came out..

chrismon

Xpro wrote: »

If it was the garages fault and they only serviced the car, what could have they done?

No1: Too little oil- ( oil light would have came up, and this would not cause the rod to break)

No2: To much oil ( again, it wouldn't throw the rod, but it could blow the seals and runaway.. Btw you would need tons of extra oil for that to happen)

No2: wrong filter, etc ( not associated with the rod)

I would say it is a pure coincidence, it just turned out to be this way... BXE engine by any chance?

Very common for BXE/BKC to throw a rod out. Google will reveal some of the horror story with the above mention engine code.

2nd Engine will be your best bet.

Yup its a BXE engine.
Have been reading up on them.
Is there much point in replacing the engine if the next one could be likely to do the same? :mad:

joujoujou

Yep, yet another BXE engine is likely to fail the same way.

But there's a thread somewhere here on boards someone replaced BXE by something else, slightly different, but without conrod problems, not really much modifications though.

chrismon

joujoujou wrote: »

Yep, yet another BXE engine is likely to fail the same way.

But there's a thread somewhere here on boards someone replaced BXE by something else, slightly different, but without conrod problems, not really much modifications though.

Nice one, Ill have a look.
You hardly remember the model type?

Xpro

Old BKC engine will fit aswell, less troublesome, and Plug and Play. Different rods, but still not a great engine to be honest.

JJJJNR

Bkd engine will fit and it's a much better engine..