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Engine Blown What to do??
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Cost is coming to £450 - turns out the engine mate failed due to 1 bolt being too short, and 2 snapped.0
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Just too elaborate if people want to know:
Car needed the below:
3 Bolts
2 Sprockets
1 Engine Mount
Timing Belt Kit
Alternator Belt
Labour
Reason for problem - 1 of the Bolts for the engine mount was too short, 1 bolt snapped and the other one is missing. Missing bolt may or may not have been present.0 -
Glad the damage isn't too bad. Sounds like the wrong bolts were used and the single correct one was either overtorqued or overloaded (or both).
This is why I do most of the maintenance on my cars myself, if I lose a bolt I won't replace it with any old thing that sort of fits. :mad:0
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