The most fooked engine I have ever seen. 56K No way!

[Fisty]

A lady my dad worked with had her MG TF from new, never had it serviced from the day it was bought. These are the results.
https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn82/mr_fisty/DSC00314.jpg

Every valve bent or missing

https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn82/mr_fisty/DSC00315.jpg

Every piston disintigrated, there is a huge hole in the block too.

https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn82/mr_fisty/DSC00316.jpg

Cambelt went causing a large scale piston/valve/everything interface.

All because she was too tight to get it serviced.[/img][img][/img]
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[Tristan.]

How old was the car?

[Fisty]

Cheers tristan, realised what id done when i pressed submit. Delete your if you would, will make things a wee bit smaller on here xxx
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[Moonie]

Jeeeesus.

Well that didn't pay off lol.
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[Fisty]

[Phoenix]

Nice, still not servicing it didn't really kill it, just the not replacing the cambelt, if she'd done that it probably would've lasted another 80,000 or whatever it'd done. Though oil changes would help too, surely she did at least one, otherwise I would think she'd have run out of oil eventually as it got thinnner and burnt or leaked out.

[Drew]

If the cambelt went, what was a service going to do to save the outcome of the engine?

She could have had a service once a month, and when the cambelt went, the same outcome would have happened

[Fisty]

A cambelt check/change is part of the service schedule. Also having it serviced regularly may have seen the frayed cambelt get noticed.
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[stinkwheel]

Could've been worse. That's at least five services she hasn't paid for at what? £350 each? More for a big one. Another couple of years or being prepared to fit a reconditioned engine and she'd be quids in. Unlucky it went when it did.

Mind you, did the belt wear or did a crappy plastic pulley do the usual Rover trick and fly apart, destroying the belt in the blink of an eye? In which case she was entirely justified because no amount of servicing would have prevented it.

Still a cool photo though. Did anything make an appearance out of the bottom of the engine too?

Mate of mine had some sort of Alpha Romeo. Due a cambelt change at 40k. For some reason this meant splitting the engine at the cost of around £2000. Another mate (a car mechanic) told him it didn't cost much more to rebuild the engine after the cambelt fails and to just drive it until it snapped.

Snapped at 80k when he'd have just been fitting his second one. Cost £2500 to sort.
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[Phoenix]

[Graham88]

Blimey, that's impressive.

This is my old Corsa engine! When it went it was very boring, simply cut out, I was hoping to have rods through the blocks and all sorts!

https://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/Corsa/Engine%20Failure/IMG_3197.jpg

https://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/Corsa/Engine%20Failure/IMG_3217.jpg

https://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/Corsa/Engine%20Failure/IMG_3239.jpg

https://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/Corsa/Engine%20Failure/IMG_3249.jpg

[Frost]

A squirt with some WD40 and a quick wipe with a rag and it'll be fine.

[Tonka]

I'm not clever with which cars are which, but doesn't the MG TF have the infamous 1.8 Rover engine?

I had 3 replacement engines in a Coupe (company car thank goodness) and then managed just the headgasket replacement on the Freelander, as Landrover acknowledge the fault and replace straight away.

In my experience if you're gonna drive a Rover / Landrover regular maintenance is essential....along with a healthy wallet!
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