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Long story short, my wife killed my BMW 740iL the other day in a heavy thunderstorm. Ingested water and locked up the engine bad enough to bend a rod. While I decide what to do with it, (do I rebuild the engine, or simply replace it, or part out the car) we pulled the trigger on a new daily driver, something we had actually been looking at for the last year or so.
2011 Cooper, 6 speed manual, Sport, Premium, and Cold weather packages (wanted those heated seats for winter time). Not the S (didn't want the extra cost), and less than 20 miles on it. It's a blast to drive, and will help keep miles off the Mustang convertible (which was not bought to be a daily driver)
I would find a quality mechanic in your area and rebuild the motor. With the rains we've had here the last few weeks I've gotten 40 cars in with various water related problems. If it's a simple bent rod and didn't hurt anything else you can simple swap that rod and put it back together. This is assuming it didn't hurt anything else.
Long story short, my wife killed my BMW 740iL the other day in a heavy thunderstorm. Ingested water and locked up the engine bad enough to bend a rod.
Did you have one of those downward facing cold air intakes? I ask because I have never had anything happen like that and I have been in some deep puddles myself.
Did you have one of those downward facing cold air intakes? I ask because I have never had anything happen like that and I have been in some deep puddles myself.
The intake for the BMW stock is behind the passenger side foglight, when splashing through 6" of water in an intersection in a flash flood, it sucks right into the intake and hydrolocks the engine (water doesn't compress).
It apparently stalled, she tried to start it again to get out of the intersection, and then it would' teven crank over. I pulled the plugs after having it towed home and checked for water in the engine, but didnt' see any. Hand cranked the engine over with a wrench on the crank pulley and didnt' feel any resistance with the plugs out. Put it back together and tried starting it (I thought at the time it might only be that the starter got soaked and died), but it did fire up, with a horrible clanking and a deep knocking. Immediately shut it down, but I can tell it's not pretty inside the engine.
Having the engine rebuilt is more than the car is worth, but I might buy a parts car and swap the engines around, before parting ot the parts car and recouping some of that cash (found one locally for $1500 that runs good but has suspension issues and wont' pass MD inspection)
So your BMW goes through some water and dies so you buy something even lower to the ground than the BMW?
The BMW was lowered on H&R springs. We bought the Mini because we had been looking at them for a year or more anyhow, and having the BMW die was simply the trigger. I'll put the BMW back together and continue to drive it.
Insurance should cover the engine being locked up under your comprehensive coverage.
It's a paid off, 12 year old car, I only had basic coverage on it. Had I had full ocverage on it, an engnei rebuild woudl have been more thna 75% of the value of the car and they would have totalled it out anyhow.
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