Technical Urgent help needed!

[New schues]

Help!

Came out in the stilo this morning (only bought it on Tuesday) as I was coming off the motorway there was a light tapping coming from the engine and then the low oil pressure warning came up. It stuttered for half a mile before I pulled up and checked the oil level. Oil seemed fine but I topped it up anyway. Probably shouldn't have but I started the car again. It struggled to turn over but then sat idling with the engine rattling Away but no oil pressure message or lights?!?!

Any thoughts before I ring the rac???

 

[Martyn.P]

I would say the bottom end has let go TBH

 

[New schues]

? That doesn't sound cash friendly...

 

[flisko]

1.2 16v?

 

[New schues]

No a 2.4 Schumacher...

 

[Thefox]

You need to check the oil pressure with a gauge, if you don't have one you could remove the cam cover and check for oil delivery to cams when you start engine. Try determine if the rattle is top or bottom of engine.
The cam variator can be noisy but they usually go quiet after a few seconds.
Engine rattles usually are never good news though.

 

[New schues]

You need to check the oil pressure with a gauge, if you don't have one you could remove the cam cover and check for oil delivery to cams when you start engine. Try determine if the rattle is top or bottom of engine.
The cam variator can be noisy but they usually go quiet after a few seconds.
Engine rattles usually are never good news though.

What sort of wonga do you think a local garage will want just to determine the actual problem? I'm just trying to weigh up what to do. I only got the car on Tuesday and I love it but this could turn into a money pit ?

 

[Artermis]

You'd have to speak with your local garage as each will have a different policy.


Many garages have a set diagnostic fee (about 1 hours labour circa £45 these days) plus vat. Some places will offset that initial diagnostics fee against any repair.


Any engine rattle is impossible to accurately diagnose over the internet. It could be something completely harmless like a loose heat shield to a complete and catastrophic failure of the engines internals and we've never be able to tell you.


Safe to say however that if you've got a significant engine noise that was coupled with an oil alarm that the likelihood is that you've got a problem approaching the more catastrophic end of the scale.


It is possible to throw a low oil pressure warning if you stall the car or nearly stall it, depends what happened to you at the junction. A low / poor or failing battery (and / or corroded earths) will also cause you possible issues and duff warning lights. The cold weather we've suddenly got over the last couple of days will start to expose a failing battery too.


The oil warning light is, as you've alluded to, a pressure warning and not a level warning. You can have an engine full of oil but if the oil pump fails then it's not getting to where it's needed.


Good luck, I'm afraid to say you may well need it.

 

[Thefox]

Contact where you bought it from and get your money back. Don't drive it, just call your breakdown assistance.

 

[g8rpi]

Contact where you bought it from and get your money back. Don't drive it, just call your breakdown assistance.

If it was bought from a dealer (that's anyone who sells cars to make money, not just someone with a showroom or forecourt) you are entitled to your money back under the sale of goods act. Even if it looked like a private sale, did they have more than one car for sale?


Robert G8RPI.

 

[Mytheroo]

....Any engine rattle is impossible to accurately diagnose over the internet....

We need a Shazam of engine sounds :slayer: