Skylarking
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First post..We don't know if the OP mentioned he was bouncing off the limiter.
I‘d guess saying “niiingggggningggggggniiiing” means he’s bouncing off the rev limiter.… driving to work, car seems fine, few km down the road check engine, contact dealer on the dash, throttle seems to stick when foot taken off accelerator, press clutch to change down (niiingggggningggggggniiiing) car starts revving it’s tits off like I’m sitting on accelerator while clutching haha, get to the traffic lights, take it out of gear, she still revevving, pulled over when it was safe, 750M up the road, no signs of cylinder missfire, no ticks. Turn engine off, give it a couple minutes, turn it over, goes away. I continue to drive to work...
If any engine noises were apparent after the restart, I’d have not driven and flat bedded the car to a mechanic.
In any case it’s the dealer service who are the professionals and must diagnose correctly, not just throw parts at it… as we know they often do…
In this case it’s obvious the dealer service missed something since the engine lunched the cam after leaving their workshop… To me it seemed they missed diagnosing some damage that had occured earlier and sent OP off with a lighter wallet.
So instead of focusing on when that cam damage actually occurred, cause stuff happens, I‘d be focusing on the dealer incompetence. The real question becomes should the dealer service have picked up the fact the cam, lifter, pushrod were stressed during the earlier mentioned bounding off the rev limit? I’d think the car would have made some squeaks or groans after the repair and it should have been apparent there was still a problem and the engine checked and the problem identified.
As is, OP has said he never had oil puddles under his car and it has been well maintained by yne dealer, yhen yne service manager changed… So it seems a little odd that dealers talked only of a damaged oil soaked harness, had him waiting 10 weeks for parts and didn’t offer other alternatives to get him back on the road. And they changed the ECU and key (key barrel?).
To me it looks like yet another case of poor service where the OP was seen as mechanically ignorant and the cash cow of the month and some suspicion we are not being told everything
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