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There has been an interesting rev related rattle from the passenger side of my engine, cambelt follower? Dunno. Sounded like a bloke hitting the engine cover with a hammer.
Took it to a mechanic friend - he's the proper mechanic friend who runs a busy workshop, not the mechanic friend who lives at the end of the street and bashes stuff with a hammer.
I'm at my friends workshop, I'm eye to eye with a brake light and a missing engine. Eh? Ah, he's just dismantled an Audi R8 due to the owners error in not putting oil in it...
Anyway, he pops the Stilo bonnet and I start the engine - 'enough! enough!' he cries. 'its dead, terminal...' 'Your bearing is gone, con rod will pop and bang away, common on this engine' So I ring the missus to tell her and pass the phone over and in his heavily Portuguese accented English he explains. Other mechanics are hanging around including the apprentice who buggered the rear wheel bearing replacement last winter and the car sales owner is chatting to me about what I do.
We suddenly hear a burst of perfect Latin as Bruno stands in front of the car, still on the phone to my missus, and offers the last rites on my engine...
He hands the phone back with the mechanics pissing themselves laughing.
My car is, or will soon be, dead. 37,000 miles since last year so I cannot complain, its been pretty reasonable for a Fiat but it will be our last . Bruno the mechanic told me so 'no more Fiats for you!'.
With a bit of luck, there is a Mercedes W124 250D on its way as a replacement.
Took it to a mechanic friend - he's the proper mechanic friend who runs a busy workshop, not the mechanic friend who lives at the end of the street and bashes stuff with a hammer.
I'm at my friends workshop, I'm eye to eye with a brake light and a missing engine. Eh? Ah, he's just dismantled an Audi R8 due to the owners error in not putting oil in it...
Anyway, he pops the Stilo bonnet and I start the engine - 'enough! enough!' he cries. 'its dead, terminal...' 'Your bearing is gone, con rod will pop and bang away, common on this engine' So I ring the missus to tell her and pass the phone over and in his heavily Portuguese accented English he explains. Other mechanics are hanging around including the apprentice who buggered the rear wheel bearing replacement last winter and the car sales owner is chatting to me about what I do.
We suddenly hear a burst of perfect Latin as Bruno stands in front of the car, still on the phone to my missus, and offers the last rites on my engine...
He hands the phone back with the mechanics pissing themselves laughing.
My car is, or will soon be, dead. 37,000 miles since last year so I cannot complain, its been pretty reasonable for a Fiat but it will be our last . Bruno the mechanic told me so 'no more Fiats for you!'.
With a bit of luck, there is a Mercedes W124 250D on its way as a replacement.
