What sort of damage are we looking at here?

My brand new KV6 for my zs180 was £3300 fitted..

£8k seems like taking the mickey, and a new engine is not your liability, a replacement 5 year old engine of similar condition is your liability...

Find a scrapped laguna at a breakers, buy the engine, have someone fit it..

to buy a complete write off and transplant the engine will come to a lot less than £8k!!!!

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Thats the turbo gone Im afraid happened on a friends laguna, that revved its nuts off, cost him over 2k to fix, but she might be lucky if it is under 90k renault might do it or at least pay some of the bill.
mate needed a new turbo, cat and intercooler replaced plus a large labour bill.
I would say it is nothing to do with overfilling the oil, more to do with the faulty turbo oil feed pipe that was used on this car, and for the record renault did replace this part as it was known to be faulty is you do a search for Renault DCi turbo problems there is a huge post somewhere on this subject.
 
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So what's going to happen to the guy that over filled her car? It's not like people have liability insurance, is he going to have to buy her a replacement car?!

A friend of mine did exactly the same with his Diesel 306, but he couldn't turn it off and didn't think to stall it. It blew up on the side of the A12 in East London, closing all four lanes as they disappeared in black smoke!!

Luckily he hadn't driven his 911 which he had also overfilled with oil that same morning and which had to be drained by the garage (although it sounds like this overfilling problem is more critical with diesels!).
 
An employee of a friend of mine did exactly the same thing with a Renault dci 100 van - low oil warning came on, 5L of oil in and it ran away on engine oil 3 miles down the road. As the van was leased and only months old his company had no choice but to foot the bill which IIRC was about £2k+VAT at the dealer - the engine was OK but in needed new turbo, intercooler, piping, CAT and exhaust because it was full of oil.

Apparently it never ran quite right afterwards, despite the dealership saying it was fine. 6 months down the line the engine gave up completely and was replaced under warranty.

I think your employer might have a strong word with you regarding admitting liability on the spot, as there is potentially a big claim here that may go beyond just the repair costs of the engine.
 
Why is it your company footing the bill? Was she on business there?

I would have thought the claim would have been between your colleague and her. Even then she would have a pretty loose claim.

8k sounds ludicrous and almost certainly would write the car off, the car is probably only worth half that figure.
 
The reason they're quoting 8000 is because they don't want the job. It's just a garage's way of saying "Not interested".

Try elsewhere for a quote.
 
I know it's been posted before, but........

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Might want to print it out and staple it to your colleague.
 
****! lol

the revving (or runaway) was most likely due to the oil intake. it would have got into the turbo via the normal air inlet.

i doubt that the engine would have been significantly damaged by revving like this for a short period.

id be interested to know how much damage was done by stalling a diesel sat at the red line lol

id clean out all the oil from the intake system and providing no engine mounts/clutch have been broken, try starting it again.

i suppose there is the possible engine overfill issue. but didnt this loser just pour it over the engine as opposed to it?

maybe he tried to fill the whole block with oil... it got dumped out via the breather and hence the run away?

No swearing

Gilly
 
Tdh1987 said:
The car involved is a 2002 Renault Laguna Turbo Diesel.

On Tuesday one of my stupid colleagues tried to help a woman out by topping up her oil for her. He obviously didn't know what he was doing since he poured over 4 litres into the engine.

She drove the car 500 yards down the road until she noticed the car was blooming with smoke, she pulled over and tried to turn the engine off, but it wouldn't stop revving.
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In all honesty your mate isn't liable for a penny since he was not paid to do the work and no contract was formed. Just a voluntary arrangement. Don't pay.
 
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Today the garage contacted us and changed their estimate to a figure of £8,000.
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you can buy a brand new, fully dressed (this means all the ancilliary components are included and fitted, turbo etc) Cosworth engine in it's packing crate for under four thousand...this leads me to think a Renault Diesel lump might just be a tad less than eight thousand :p .

IMHO the garage are either A) trying to rip her off or B) giving such a high quote because they just don't want to do the job.
 
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In all honesty your mate isn't liable for a penny since he was not paid to do the work and no contract was formed. Just a voluntary arrangement. Don't pay.
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You could well be right there.. and if he wasn't offering a service as a mechanic, and she asked him to put the oil in for her, was she specific about how much oil to add?

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