MARTINGTI
Octane Boostaholics
Hello Everyone,
My name is Martin and I am from West Limerick. I really hoped my first post here would have been a happy one but my god did luck let me down with a bang yesterday!
To get started I bought my very first Subaru yesterday! Delighted I was! Note the word WAS!!!
The car I bought is a 2000 reg Legacy B4. Picture attached! (I hope) And I am sure some of you will know the car as it has ISDC stickers on it!
Well I bought the car yesterday in Roscommon and what an eventful drive home I had… I really don’t know where to start! Im close to tears as I type this!
I left Roscommon and headed for Limerick. And absolutely fell in love with the car on the 2 hour drive down! All was going sooo well, until I got to the Ennis bypass. Now I was not driving the car hard, I can’t stress that enough! I was at around 140kph in 5th gear when the car just died, like I clicked my fingers. I pulled straight over into the hard shoulder and rolled to a stop. Engine dead at this stage! Got out and I could see I had a lot of smoke coming from under the engine. I opened the bonnet and down under the radiator cap I had a fire! Thanks god a guy pulled in who had an extinguisher and I got it put out! Only for him I would now own a burnt shell! You can imagine how I was feeling at this stage. My lovely new car, smouldering on the hard shoulder of the motorway and destroyed with fire extinguisher dust!
To shorten the story a bit I got it loaded onto a truck and into my garage man. A well experienced Subaru man. From a quick visual inspection he can tell me that something, maybe the crankshaft, broke loose and came out through the rocket cover and was now protruding! This caused an oil leak which dripped down onto the exhaust and started the fire which also burnt some cables and a coil pack!!!!
Im just beyond shocked and sickened! I am really lost for words! He is going to get the rocket cover off today and try to get a full diagnosis of damage etc but its not sounding good at this stage.
Has this happened to anyone else? Is it anyway common? Any advice would be great!
Cheers lads,
A seriously depressed B4 owner! (for only 2 hours)!!!
My name is Martin and I am from West Limerick. I really hoped my first post here would have been a happy one but my god did luck let me down with a bang yesterday!
To get started I bought my very first Subaru yesterday! Delighted I was! Note the word WAS!!!
The car I bought is a 2000 reg Legacy B4. Picture attached! (I hope) And I am sure some of you will know the car as it has ISDC stickers on it!
Well I bought the car yesterday in Roscommon and what an eventful drive home I had… I really don’t know where to start! Im close to tears as I type this!
I left Roscommon and headed for Limerick. And absolutely fell in love with the car on the 2 hour drive down! All was going sooo well, until I got to the Ennis bypass. Now I was not driving the car hard, I can’t stress that enough! I was at around 140kph in 5th gear when the car just died, like I clicked my fingers. I pulled straight over into the hard shoulder and rolled to a stop. Engine dead at this stage! Got out and I could see I had a lot of smoke coming from under the engine. I opened the bonnet and down under the radiator cap I had a fire! Thanks god a guy pulled in who had an extinguisher and I got it put out! Only for him I would now own a burnt shell! You can imagine how I was feeling at this stage. My lovely new car, smouldering on the hard shoulder of the motorway and destroyed with fire extinguisher dust!
To shorten the story a bit I got it loaded onto a truck and into my garage man. A well experienced Subaru man. From a quick visual inspection he can tell me that something, maybe the crankshaft, broke loose and came out through the rocket cover and was now protruding! This caused an oil leak which dripped down onto the exhaust and started the fire which also burnt some cables and a coil pack!!!!
Im just beyond shocked and sickened! I am really lost for words! He is going to get the rocket cover off today and try to get a full diagnosis of damage etc but its not sounding good at this stage.
Has this happened to anyone else? Is it anyway common? Any advice would be great!
Cheers lads,
A seriously depressed B4 owner! (for only 2 hours)!!!
