Well folks another engine has joined the ranks of the crippled and the dead ...
Long story short, I had my car in for an oil change, and copper swarf was found in the oil and filter.
The thinking at the moment is that it's worn crank bearings.
The engine is out , I should get news of the extent of the damage within a few days. I'll keep you all in the know.
To be fair, I'd been chatting back and forth with Grant from Hartech over the last year or so, and he DID warn me that they are seeing more and more higher mileage (above 100k miles, but some significantly less than that! ) 996's with crank bearing wear.
I'm not trying to start a war of words with 'well mines done xxxk miles and is fine" ... I'm just giving you my experience first hand, and it really does sound to me like Grant was looking into his crystal ball when he mentioned crank bearing failure to me a few months ago!
The next step is to find out if Ive caught it early enough to safe the crank.
Either way , it's going to be spendy!
Long story short, I had my car in for an oil change, and copper swarf was found in the oil and filter.
The thinking at the moment is that it's worn crank bearings.
The engine is out , I should get news of the extent of the damage within a few days. I'll keep you all in the know.
To be fair, I'd been chatting back and forth with Grant from Hartech over the last year or so, and he DID warn me that they are seeing more and more higher mileage (above 100k miles, but some significantly less than that! ) 996's with crank bearing wear.
I'm not trying to start a war of words with 'well mines done xxxk miles and is fine" ... I'm just giving you my experience first hand, and it really does sound to me like Grant was looking into his crystal ball when he mentioned crank bearing failure to me a few months ago!
The next step is to find out if Ive caught it early enough to safe the crank.
Either way , it's going to be spendy!
