r0gue_shin0bi
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Hey Guys,
Really struggling to wrap my head around this - so maybe y'all have some input (sorry in advance for the essay below - tl;dr at the bottom for the lazy)
So I blew the my engine up on last week Sunday (RIP Me) - but the more I look into it, the less I understand how I have managed this
In terms of background/context, I have the 2011/2012 Model E82 125i - which, as far as I am aware has an N52B30 engine, supposedly quite a bulletproof engine
I'm currently the 3rd owner I believe and while I have very little idea what the first owner was like (other than a few very old speeding tickets which were unpaid but it was like 10 kms over speed limit so I doubt they were abusing the car), I believe the second owner had it for the majority of its life (minimum 80k kms and 8-10 years)
Second owner, was a female driver, who took exceedingly good care of it (or her man did tbh), when I bought it, I took it to the mechanic first thing who confirmed it was in great condition
Now, while I do drive the SHIT out of it relatively often (definitely most abusive owner - but I'm not reselling so idgaf) - I do go out of my way to take exceedingly good care of it, and will take it in for a check as soon as I notice anything slightly different with it (I learnt the hard way when I felt my gears shift like.. half a second slower than usual, and because I was like 200-300km from my next service, ignored it - that basically resulted in my gearbox going and needing to be replaced - which I did much to my bank accounts chagrin) and also bring it in for a service/lookover at least every 7.5K to 10K kms, because I love the living daylights out of it
I've had it for +- 18.5K Kms over around 1 year and 3 months - its currently sitting on just over 161k mileage which, while high is not ungodly
When it happened, yes, I was admittedly driving quite hard, but my no means hitting rev limiter or anything like that - heard a bit of a boom, smokescreened the whole road with THICK white smoke (Assumedly oil & water mixing) and I'm pretty sure engine cut off as I rolled into the emergency lane with my remaining momentum, leaving quite a massive oil trail in my wake (some of which was becoming slightly milky which lead me to initially believe it was just the head gasket)
While I am still waiting on mechanic to strip the engine and see what actually failed and how bad the damage is (his lift was damaged and was waiting for the techies to come sort it out), he did do a few checks to see if the engine would turn over and it did not which led him to believe that I might have cracked the engine block instead of just blowing the head gasket like I initially suspected.
He's basically told me to prepare to potentially either swap in an import engine or see what parts are needed and rebuild it, both of which will be quite expensive and labor intensive😂
From what I'm seeing, people are turbo-ing and putting down like 600hp to grenade these things with people putting down 500hp on the stock internals with no issues and while my car is slightly modified, there's no turbo and 100% not putting down anywhere close to 400hp let alone 600hp so I'm just really confused as to how I managed this 😅
While I'm not discounting the possibility that its a 13-14 year old car and I was just unlucky and life gave me a massive middle finger - I'm just wondering if any of y'all perhaps had some insights as to how I managed to achieve this seemingly impressive feat of blowing it up😂 maybe I'm just grasping at straws as a way of mourning but still 😂
On a side note, no I won't strip, break or sell the car, I'll be buried in it if I can help it 😂 - and am pretty much ready to dump all concepts of financial responsibility down the drain to rebuild the engine and get her up and running again with "original" engine (code at least 😂) - I was putting cash away to buy a car for me/wife, but that is pretty much all going straight into this now😂
I will also say my mechanic is exceedingly honest, trustworthy and knowledgeable , especially with older BMWs and has been working on my fathers BMWs since quite literally before I was born so I highly doubt any ulterior motives or unscrupulous behaviors on his side (he pretty much exclusively works on BMWs with very few exceptions - I think he took at look at our Hyundai Getz once as a favor?)
tl:dr - Somehow blew up my N52, trying to figure out how 😂
Really struggling to wrap my head around this - so maybe y'all have some input (sorry in advance for the essay below - tl;dr at the bottom for the lazy)
So I blew the my engine up on last week Sunday (RIP Me) - but the more I look into it, the less I understand how I have managed this
In terms of background/context, I have the 2011/2012 Model E82 125i - which, as far as I am aware has an N52B30 engine, supposedly quite a bulletproof engine
I'm currently the 3rd owner I believe and while I have very little idea what the first owner was like (other than a few very old speeding tickets which were unpaid but it was like 10 kms over speed limit so I doubt they were abusing the car), I believe the second owner had it for the majority of its life (minimum 80k kms and 8-10 years)
Second owner, was a female driver, who took exceedingly good care of it (or her man did tbh), when I bought it, I took it to the mechanic first thing who confirmed it was in great condition
Now, while I do drive the SHIT out of it relatively often (definitely most abusive owner - but I'm not reselling so idgaf) - I do go out of my way to take exceedingly good care of it, and will take it in for a check as soon as I notice anything slightly different with it (I learnt the hard way when I felt my gears shift like.. half a second slower than usual, and because I was like 200-300km from my next service, ignored it - that basically resulted in my gearbox going and needing to be replaced - which I did much to my bank accounts chagrin) and also bring it in for a service/lookover at least every 7.5K to 10K kms, because I love the living daylights out of it
I've had it for +- 18.5K Kms over around 1 year and 3 months - its currently sitting on just over 161k mileage which, while high is not ungodly
When it happened, yes, I was admittedly driving quite hard, but my no means hitting rev limiter or anything like that - heard a bit of a boom, smokescreened the whole road with THICK white smoke (Assumedly oil & water mixing) and I'm pretty sure engine cut off as I rolled into the emergency lane with my remaining momentum, leaving quite a massive oil trail in my wake (some of which was becoming slightly milky which lead me to initially believe it was just the head gasket)
While I am still waiting on mechanic to strip the engine and see what actually failed and how bad the damage is (his lift was damaged and was waiting for the techies to come sort it out), he did do a few checks to see if the engine would turn over and it did not which led him to believe that I might have cracked the engine block instead of just blowing the head gasket like I initially suspected.
He's basically told me to prepare to potentially either swap in an import engine or see what parts are needed and rebuild it, both of which will be quite expensive and labor intensive😂
From what I'm seeing, people are turbo-ing and putting down like 600hp to grenade these things with people putting down 500hp on the stock internals with no issues and while my car is slightly modified, there's no turbo and 100% not putting down anywhere close to 400hp let alone 600hp so I'm just really confused as to how I managed this 😅
While I'm not discounting the possibility that its a 13-14 year old car and I was just unlucky and life gave me a massive middle finger - I'm just wondering if any of y'all perhaps had some insights as to how I managed to achieve this seemingly impressive feat of blowing it up😂 maybe I'm just grasping at straws as a way of mourning but still 😂
On a side note, no I won't strip, break or sell the car, I'll be buried in it if I can help it 😂 - and am pretty much ready to dump all concepts of financial responsibility down the drain to rebuild the engine and get her up and running again with "original" engine (code at least 😂) - I was putting cash away to buy a car for me/wife, but that is pretty much all going straight into this now😂
I will also say my mechanic is exceedingly honest, trustworthy and knowledgeable , especially with older BMWs and has been working on my fathers BMWs since quite literally before I was born so I highly doubt any ulterior motives or unscrupulous behaviors on his side (he pretty much exclusively works on BMWs with very few exceptions - I think he took at look at our Hyundai Getz once as a favor?)
tl:dr - Somehow blew up my N52, trying to figure out how 😂
