RRSAuto18
Member Since: 03 May 2024
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1
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Broke down the day I bought it! | |
So, I picked up a 6yr old RRS this week from a dealer down south. As I was driving it home, it broke down ðŸ˜
I won't name the dealer as they're being relatively helpful so far. They've arranged to pick it up next week for investigations. I just want to have an idea of what went wrong, and how long it might take to get sorted.
It's a pre-facelift 2018 RRS (is that MY 2017?). Engine is SDV6 with about 66,000 miles. Most recent service was just 500 miles ago - is there any risk this wasn't carried out properly?
Breakdown symptoms were as follows:
Motorway cruising, started to hear a kind of flapping, as though a scarf was stuck out the window, or like you get on concrete motorways. Turned music off, and it got steadily louder so I tried some diagnostics of sorts. Pretty sure it was related to engine speed, not vehicle speed.
This makes me think it's maybe a belt of some sort?
Anyway, I'd made the decision to pull off at the next services, but before I reached them, the engine cut out. Can't remember if there was a clunk or anything, I was focused on getting safely to the hard shoulder.
The D on the cluster was flashing, then came up saying something like "re-engage gear and try again". My assumption is this was the gearbox trying to cope with a stationary engine.
While coasting along the hard shoulder, I tried to restart the engine, which didn't work. I tried it again once stopped, also failed.
My thoughts are that it's something major, I hear lots about crankshafts, timing belts and HPFP belts. Do any of these sound likely?
All I need to know really is how long until I'm able to drive it again. It's a beautiful car, drove like a dream for the first few hours.
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