Blown Engine

[Branton Worrell]

Curiosity more than anything has me writing this post. First off I really do like my Sport TracIve kept it since new in 01, but in Spring of 06 with 64k and 30 days left on my extended warranty, a warranty I only bought because it was my next door neighbor selling me the truck, I completely blew the engine. Good news is I got a brand new, out of the crate engine for the low, low price of $200 dollars but now that I have almost 50k on the new engine Im beginning to get a little nervous Befor you ask; I changed and do change my oil every 3-5k depending on my driving style. It gave me great pleasure to turn over every single receipt for oil changes to AutoNation when they went that route on my warranty claim.

 

[Bill Barber]

dosent seem to be a common occurance on the site, would not worry about it.

 

[Fudged Undies]

Question would be, what is the exact definition of "blown engine?" What exactly went wrong? There have been a few(very few on the site) cases of a bad valve spring, which COULD do enough damage to the engine to require a rebuild/replacement. But that's all I can recall. Auto tranny's have been a bigger issue to most. Personally, if you check/replace your fluids regularly you should be fine, IMO.

 

[Branton Worrell]

I was so nervous about my warranty that once I found out I still had it in effect everything else became moot, besides I was several hundred miles from home and was concentrating more on working out the details between the rental car, missing more work to get truck back, rental reimbursements etc. I can say radiator fluid was freely flowing through the exhaust pipe when we loaded up the truck on the back of a flat bed. Thats when I know it was serious. All I remember the service manager saying was catastrophic failure when something broke and went through something else. My ST is an automatic.



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