Well guys, since i only posted about this in chat, i thought i'd enlighten you lot lot.
was on my way back on a roughly 200 mile round trip, all motorway/a roads and the poor motor lost a leg!
was about 160 mile into the trip and at 75mph on the motorway, bang, leg out of bed and oil everywhere.
It was dark and my insurance recovery wanted £80 to take me home (40 mile), dad got me in the end thank f**k, got the car home and in the daylight the next day i had a look at the extent of the damage. i could only see a crack with a seepage of oil on the back of the block, and thought something must have given way inside, either a conrod or a smashed piston.
only the next day when i was stripping it to take out the engine, did i notice that the conrod of cylinder 2 (second from gearbox side) had came right out of the block and put a big dent in the starter motor, aswell as broke it off the mount.
Not sure on the cause, must be oil starvation or something but turbo is ok, and oil had been changed just 2 weeks prior to this (albeit it was 10w40, but this wouldnt cause a fatal error)
Just thought id post as theres not much out there on '2.0 hdi conrod failure' lol
Edit:
Car was in standard tune, and i'll post up some pics when i get round to it!
was on my way back on a roughly 200 mile round trip, all motorway/a roads and the poor motor lost a leg!
was about 160 mile into the trip and at 75mph on the motorway, bang, leg out of bed and oil everywhere.
It was dark and my insurance recovery wanted £80 to take me home (40 mile), dad got me in the end thank f**k, got the car home and in the daylight the next day i had a look at the extent of the damage. i could only see a crack with a seepage of oil on the back of the block, and thought something must have given way inside, either a conrod or a smashed piston.
only the next day when i was stripping it to take out the engine, did i notice that the conrod of cylinder 2 (second from gearbox side) had came right out of the block and put a big dent in the starter motor, aswell as broke it off the mount.
Not sure on the cause, must be oil starvation or something but turbo is ok, and oil had been changed just 2 weeks prior to this (albeit it was 10w40, but this wouldnt cause a fatal error)
Just thought id post as theres not much out there on '2.0 hdi conrod failure' lol
Edit:
Car was in standard tune, and i'll post up some pics when i get round to it!