>> Please can we keep this simple and to the point please.
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It is clear that a lot of the respondents to this thread do not have the benefit of having read smokie's original, now hidden, post on this subject. Otherwise many of the questions and false assumptions could have been avoided.
I think it is very unlikely that a missed oil service should lead to a bottom end failure. BTW, has the bearing failed or the conrod bottom end? A possible manufacturing defect which just happens to fail soon after a belated service or, as Lygonos hints, someone may have started the engine without oil circulating. How that may have happened is anybody's guess. Smokie should get the engine parts examined by an independent professional Mechanical Engineer and or a Metallurgist.
Warranty is irrelevant. take action in the small claims court as per the examples of the Corsa camshaft failures people on HJ's website.
Last edited by: John H on Thu 29 Apr 10 at 19:49
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