Our 2017 Fiat Ducatto based Swift Escape had an engine issue, luckily not too far from home, but still required a trip on the back of an AA recovery truck. Power dropped off with no warning, or warning lights, then as we limped off the motorway at the next junction we got an "insufficient oil pressure" warning so and pulled into a car park, turned off a very noisy engine and called recovery.
Got the prognosis from the garage today, something to do with the crank at the bottom of the engine having failed, it needs a new engine. Garage couldn't say what caused it, but that they've seen it before with low mileage engines (26.5K miles in our case).
As there's no point in a motorhome with no motor, its going to have to be fixed. The options appear to be either a brand new engine or a reconditioned one. The garage are going to price up the options but it's looking like around £6k for a new engine, a couple of thousand less for a reconditioned one. Fitting will be on top of that.
Thoughts, best just suck it up and get a new engine, or would a reconditioned one suffice? In fact, would a reconditioned one maybe be better as it's been run in and Ducatto engines should be used to doing high mileages.
Got the prognosis from the garage today, something to do with the crank at the bottom of the engine having failed, it needs a new engine. Garage couldn't say what caused it, but that they've seen it before with low mileage engines (26.5K miles in our case).
As there's no point in a motorhome with no motor, its going to have to be fixed. The options appear to be either a brand new engine or a reconditioned one. The garage are going to price up the options but it's looking like around £6k for a new engine, a couple of thousand less for a reconditioned one. Fitting will be on top of that.
Thoughts, best just suck it up and get a new engine, or would a reconditioned one suffice? In fact, would a reconditioned one maybe be better as it's been run in and Ducatto engines should be used to doing high mileages.