Renault Laguna, Y reg. But why, Reg?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 

Tomas

 

 

 

 

Polish.

 

So he'll turn up on time in a LHD Passat, pay you 99p and whisk it away. For him, it's 99p and 6 gallons of red diesel. When you drive from Poland to London twice a year, 230 miles is nowt.

[Angrydicky]

My thoughts exactly Rev. What's more, look at how well written that message is, presumably from someone who has English as a second language. Puts those British Ebay and Gumtree morons to shame with their text-talking gibberish.

[LessThanEqual]

Not a Polish name, point still stands though

[Peter C]

Not a Polish name, point still stands though

Indeed.

 

If he was Polish his name would be Tomasz.

[Eddie Honda]

But equally, he could be Polish and called Bob.

[Peter C]

Regardless what happens to the Y reg Laguna, the world's stock markets, discovery of life on Mars, etc, we must find out the true nationality of the buyer of the £0.99 engine.

[Lacquer Peel]

Foreign, they're all the same to me.

[Peter C]

Foreign, they're all the same to me.

Come over here, take our jobs.....

[stephen01]

Come over here, take our engines.....

 

FTFY

[scaryoldcortina]

If it's that important I shall ask for ID and proof of nationality before allowing anyone to remove the valuable* french engine!

 

Today I made a broken Honda work again. Probably as a direct result of this the indicator stalk on the Lag has started to play up.

[andrew e]

Foreign, they're all the same to me.

 

That's not how you spell English...

[scaryoldcortina]

First things first - Tomas rang me at 7.15 sunday morning to ask if 8.00 was a convenient time to collect. Predicatably, I got the message about 12ish by which time the van was in scotlandshire somewhere. It's getting re-arranged.

 

Now then, today. The car was making a new clunking noise yesterday, so this afternoon I put it on the ramp to check. One of the new droplink had come loose because the securing nut had shed its threads. QUALITY. Easy fixed though, so I had a look over the rest of it because it's the first chance I've had.

 

Sump looked damp. I wiped it. It bled.

 

 

No flipping idea when that happened! Dropped it down, checked the oil level - just on the bottom of the dipstick (Dash says "OIL OK" though..) so obviously I need to do something about that straight away.

 

If only I had a scrap engine I could nick the sump from......

[omegod]

Ooh you wouldn't would you....that'd render the other engine near enough worthless 

[agw9262]

I reckon this car is trying to tell you something...

 

 

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[scaryoldcortina]

No, of course not! The sump is different on that one

 

I meant the dead engine I promised to autopsy for you. Well, it happened today.

 

Rolled it onto a pallet and dragged it to the door...

 

 

There is NO prize for spotting what killed it.

 

 

Kudos will be granted if you can identify what the hell this is - I was expecting a glove. This is about 7" long, and has a cuff at one end. I also have no clue how it got into the sump without being shredded.

 

 

OM NOM NOM SHELLS

[scaryoldcortina]

Cleaned out the sump - full of manky gritty black stuff but a good swill with diesel and a load of rags later...

 

 

Sump off...

 

 

Sump on...

 

 

Damage to old sump

 

 

Put oil back in. Top up with free tesco oil (remember the bottle in the boot?)

 

 

And done. I'm lucky I spotted it, because that was about a day away from wrecking another engine. I last checked the oil on sunday and it was fine so it must have happened yesterday. Got home and there is an oil puddle outside the house as well.

[Parky]

How the fuck did that get in there? That's one clumsy mechanic or feckless engine assembler if it is a glove

[scaryoldcortina]

Exactly! but not a glove - no fingers.

[Angrydicky]

It's a sleeve isn't it? From a shirt or a long sleeved T-shirt?

[twosmoke300]

On the oil display where it says oil ok , if you press the button it will bring up the blobs to tell you the level

[scaryoldcortina]

Angrydicky - no, it's made of clear plastic or latex.

 

Twosmoke - I know, and it lied to me.

[Craig the Princess]

Plastic bag from a spare part?

 

Very strange.

[twosmoke300]

Angrydicky - no, it's made of clear plastic or latex.

 

Twosmoke - I know, and it lied to me.

I thought you might 😄

[stripped fred]

Maybe it was sabotage? I can't imagine how it could have happened by accident.

[scaryoldcortina]

Very random and long term act of sabotage though - god knows how long it was in there before finally finding the pickup pipe. I don't think it would fit down the dipstick tube either so you would have to roll it up and insert it via the sump plug.

[stephen01]

looks like a crisp packet.

[Angrydicky]

Plastic bag from a spare part?

 

Very strange.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking now, left in the sump when it was fitted at the factory! But would the engine have survived this long?

[twosmoke300]

An old agri engineer was telling me about an old David brown with random hyd failure that had dogged it from new until it was 2 years old . It never failed when the mechanics looked at it and they started thinking the farmer was making it up .

Eventually they took the cab off , pulled the back axle apart and found a sandwich wrapper floating in there 😄

[phil_lihp]

Someone I know has a Porsche 944 which died shortly after the previous owner had the engine rebuilt.  Exactly the same thing except that one's oil starvation was caused by a rubber glove left inside the engine.

[twosmoke300]

Father in law wondered why his washing machine wouldn't fill up until he found the glove finger he'd put on the pipe