I wonder if this is the dreaded start of the worn crankshaft caused by a lowering of the oil pressure has the seal for the oil pick up pipe hardens .
If it is the noise won’t go away & eventually as you increase the rpm the oil pressure light comes on followed by an almighty bang as the engine destroys itself .

 

Thanks for the reply , yeh could well be , been reading about it. Only ever had low pressure warning come on once about 18 months ago when -10 but who knows. Cars started and running but not driven far.

 

Just an update. Looked at the car today and confirm low oil pressure switch off engine came up and engine sounded terrible.

Engine won’t rev out. Is it worst changeing that oil feed pipe or is it too late?

So after some advise? New engine? What’s the fix? Car in decent nic but has 121k on the clock. Cost of a recon engine and fitting? Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Ben.

 

First off you’d need to strip the bottom half back to see how bad the damage is , but if it’s been knocking & the oil pressure warning light is now on then the damage is going to be bad .
A good used engine might be the best route you’d looking around the £2000 area for all the work .

 

Thanks for the feed back , the rattle seems to be coming from the top of the engine , maybe worn cam shaft now hence the missing bad timing etc. I’m no expert! Do you recon it’s worth swooping out the oil pipe seal . As you say it’s need stripping back.

I was thinking 2k so cars a write off me thinks as it’s probs only wort 3k.

Might go down the sell it spare repairs option and buy another car.

 

Thanks for the feed back , the rattle seems to be coming from the top of the engine , maybe worn cam shaft now hence the missing bad timing etc. I’m no expert! Do you recon it’s worth swooping out the oil pipe seal . As you say it’s need stripping back.

I was thinking 2k so cars a write off me thinks as it’s probs only wort 3k.

Might go down the sell it spare repairs option and buy another car.

Engines going to need a look at before you can know what’s actually happening inside.

 

Get it checked, just pre agree a price with garage to strip and check so you know where you are.
If only light damage you might get a rebuild done its not to bad.

Not many places will do the rebuild so don’t expect an enthusiastic response from the mechanic.

If you do get rebuilt it should last a long time with no other issues, but buying another car may bring other problems.

 

The reason many garages won’t be keen on a rebuild is its time consuming & doesn’t make a garage much money , then factor in a mechanic working on it when he can which leads to the car taking up space in the garage whilst engines being stripped etc & new parts ordered in.

 

It's down to whether you want to keep the car or not, I doubt I'd spend 2k on a car that's worth 3k either.
Although you could get a price for an engine inspection and go from there. As previously stated.

 

It's down to whether you want to keep the car or not, I doubt I'd spend 2k on a car that's worth 3k either.
Although you could get a price for an engine inspection and go from there. As previously stated.

yeh thats where I'm at , will see exactly what the damage is and take it from there , hopefully worth a grand spare and repairs?

 

I found a few places that would take complete car for £650 non runner

Was a few on eBay selling as spares or repair for £800-1200 but didn’t seem to sell.

I worked out to buy a new motor and scrap old I was looking at £3,300 loss writing car off and getting £2k replacement. Or £2k ish lose if I repaired

Not allowing replacing clutch, which is sensible as pretty much parts not labour as engine will be out

 

Just an update , engine was scrap sadly sold the car spares and repair £950. Looking at Hondas now.

 

Not a good for reliability of the engine ( this seal that hardens on the oil pick up pipe )
The gaffer won’t buy anymore Insignia for use as a taxi due to 2 major engine failures.

 

Yeh , I really liked the insignia as a car and it drove well , gutted in the end as I’d looked after the motor. Crazy in this day and age to think engines fail in this way on the scale they are on the cdti.

 

Yep that seal seems to be that engines Achilles heal, as well as the dpf system. Just as the camchain tensioner seems to be on the 1.6d diesel engine.

 

that seal problem is the reason I decided to keep my vectra CDTI instead of buying an insignia , vectra is on 208k & doing fine . vauxhall made a very big mistake when they designed the oil pick up seal on them engines .