Importance of sump guard?

[InvaderGIR]

With my BMW having such a naff history i think there are a few panels underneath the car missing

I don't know if yours would have come with one as standard but my 328i never had one when I owned it, but the 318iS did have one, iirc it was a multiple part item and covered the length of the engine bay.

No. 3 on this diagram for the M3, helpfully though there is no PN on RealOEM.

Splash wall parts - BMW parts catalog



Seems BMWFans doesn't have the PN either, odd.

 

[miniyazz]

Get the sheet steel one for your mk4 had one on my 4motion and octavia great bits of kit


edit: this is the mk4 platform sumpguard,

tis a very solid and substantial bit of kit, you have to buy the fitting kit but if you do go down this road pm me, I've got a fitting kit you can have for postage costs sitting spare from when I got one for the Cupra R(the stock fiting kit doesn't work with the LCR as the intercoolers get in the way.

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heres the etka page for the sumpguards for a mk4, bottom one is the plastic one, top one is the steel one with the fitting kit shown, bolts directly to the chassis

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Yeah that looks pretty impressive, not going to break off in a hurry! That's a very tempting offer, thanks - would just have to source the main bit, and there's not many places around from the looks of it. Is direct from VW the only way?

Cheers

 

[Westyfield2]

Those plastic undertrays aren't a sump guard!

Mate cracked his sump at the weekend though .

 

[Matt82]

They also prove to be good advance warning where I used to live where the small high street had speed mountains all along it but the local knobbers would still insist on flying up and down them at full speed. You'd hear the clatter of undertrays from a fair distance off

 

[Gribs]

Those plastic undertrays aren't a sump guard!

Mate cracked his sump at the weekend though .

It seems fairly common in the era of vag cars. A mate holed his in his m4 tdi shed over Christmas and my mum did her a3 a few years ago. I've seen two other sump related accidents in my lifetime, the first was my dad hitting a raised manhole cover in a Talbot Sunbeam, the second a mate offroading in a 309 and hitting a rock.

 

[Matt82]

I have a mk4 where the sump definitely won't clear I stood up cig pack, my sump is unmarked.

You'd have to be pretty reckless to kill a sump ime

 

[GT3]

My Xsara VTS had some big scrape marks in the sump, I flattened the Exhaust manifold that ran under the sump on my Saxo VTS and I smashed the sump and oil pickup on my Peugeot 406 SRI Turbo.

All standard ride height cars too, there are some rough country lanes nearby and used to go driving flat out round them at night. Calmed down since I got a mid engined rear wheel drive car for obvious reasons!

 

[Duke]

My word thats long (its a crime that ive owned an MX5)

i take it that covers all the way back to the bulkhead?

More or less. It is standard on the Bluemotion model, so easy swap. There are a few smaller pieces that fit further back as well (near the fuel tank iirc) so you can have almost the whole underneath covered which is great for aero and noise benefits. I decided just for the front tray.

 

[Westyfield2]

It seems fairly common in the era of vag cars. A mate holed his in his m4 tdi shed over Christmas and my mum did her a3 a few years ago. I've seen two other sump related accidents in my lifetime, the first was my dad hitting a raised manhole cover in a Talbot Sunbeam, the second a mate offroading in a 309 and hitting a rock.

Yeah, mate who did his was a lowered golf Mk4 on a speedbump. Going back about 9 years I remember being in a B6 Audi A4 that got all four wheels airbourne on a crest (or maybe it was a humpback bridge?)... came down with a rather loud noise and I was surprised to see afterwards that the only damage were some scrapes and the sump was fine!