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Originally Posted by Jake Raby
The only symptom initially is a noise that sounds just like a bad lifter... Tick..tick..tick.
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The reason why the ticking starts first is because the wear occurs at the piston skirt area where friction is greatest. This is well blow the ring sealing area and because of that the engine can fail from this without any of the classic symptoms of a lost cylinder.
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Thanks
At what kind of mileage? The car in question apparently has just 36k miles on it. I drive about 1500 miles a year. In 10 yrs the car will be trashed anyway with 50k miles on it. Do I need to sweat about it?
I drove it once for a couple miles and noticed nothing abnormal, no smoke, know rattles, sounded pretty tight.
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