YAMIN2000

hi all
we had a rain in my country and and the rain enter mu engine when i took the car to bmw services saied i have to change complet engine , any one have any solution????
it will cost me only parts 13000 $$$
i heard that i can buy engine from some where else and replace it with old engine some peole do it to improve his car can i do this now ???? and where do i find it ?

thanks

dlevi67

Where are you?

What engine has your car got?

It's pretty difficult for others to help without some fairly essential information

525iSE

Someone was selling engine and tranny before in the classifieds section.

dlevi67

Yes, but would you buy a 545 engine from the US? (What I mean is from Thailand and with a 525 to start with. There's more than just the engine that changes)

EuroCarFan

I'm more curious how the rain entered the engine? I thought with today's engines, everything is so well sealed that you can essentially spray it with a hose and things will still be okay.

Or did you maybe mean that there was heavy rain which caused flooding and your car was submerged?

525iSE

I was answering the originator's thread. Did I say i was bringing it to Thailand for my 525? I dono what car or where the originator is, and instead of questioning him, I just gave what I know about where there's a spare engine.

dlevi67

Let's just say that we are both trying to help. But it looks like you have the same questions I have, though you may be more polite in putting them across.

It would be really easy to provide at least 20 places in the UK where to buy a reconditioned engine, but I suspect the OP is not in the UK, as generally UK-based posters would quote prices in ?, not $! I also suspect the OP would find the information irrelevant, because of transport costs, times and issues with regulations (not least because BMW's engines have the nasty habit of having many many niggling little bits that are different for each country). This time I was trying to be more polite and less direct to you...

JetBlack

If you drive through a big puddles there is a good possibility that water can splash up the small chamber where the intake box pulls air from. Most of the time though it is just water that hits the hot wire on the AFM and fry's that which will also cause the car not to run/start. So there could be a big difference if the car actually Siezed from Hydrolock or the AFM is fryed.

EuroCarFan

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of damage can happen if your engine is submerged such as in a flood or just driving through a deep puddle.

Harry

If your engine "sniffs" water that stands on the street because of heavy rain you drive thru, engine is down for real. We have that problem every year in germany, people think, the water is not too deep I can drive thru, water enters the engine and then - end. R.I.P.

Situation like these f.e.: http://www.thomae-partner.de/public/906455...rasse_500px.jpg

In germany it?s called "Wasserschlag". (Water hammer) ?

I?m very sorry for you if that?s what happend!