Engine decided to end it all

[SandyM]

Greetings,

I am in need of some advice.

While driving in France, my RCZ-R 270 bhp, 2015, conked out. There was a sudden loss of power, but no noise, and when I pulled off the road, there was a lot of oil under the car. A diagnosis by a (French) Peugeot garage, found there was a hole in the sump that they thought had to have been caused by an internal issue, e.g. the con-rod somehow breaking free and doing the damage.

It's a weird one. The car only had 53,000 miles on the clock, was regularly serviced, no problem lights had come on; it was driving beautifully. I am heartbroken, because this was my favourite car from 50 years of driving and the risk is that repairs will cost more than its value. So, my questions:

Has anyone heard of such an occurrence with this engine? If I get the car brought back to the UK, can anyone give me an idea as to the cost of a second-hand/re-condiitoned engine and the labour involved in fitting it? When sourcing such an engine, can one know the mileage/age of it?

Any thoughts gratefully received.

Sandy Morrison

 

[EddieJ]

Thats awful news.
The prince engines in 156 and 200 format with sensible mileage and any kind of mileage guarantee seem to be hard enough to track down and they were more common. I only know because I have been keeping my eye out for a decent 156 to put away should I end up in that boat for either my RCZ or 308CC. Couple of years ago I drove them hard but more lately they are treated softly softly and serviced every 6k.
I hope you ever success tracking down a good used engine.

PS you might have better luck getting an engine in France as there were probably more R’s kept there than came to UK.