help help help!!!!!

[r32 uberwagen]

so, as we all know, its been raining plenty in the past couple of days....
i was driving my wife to work, and through a massive puddle....
the car wont statr/turn over, theres an oil leak and for extra fun a piece if engine fell out when i took off the Armour to have a look.... and i have no idea what it is!!!

first q, whats golfwagens number?!

thanks!

[FJ Steve]

9303 4999 or 9303 4888

[r32 uberwagen]

big thanks!

[r32 uberwagen]

alright everyone! time to test your 24v vr6 knowlege!

what the hell is this, and more importantly what did it break off of?

[andrew]

wowwww did a puddle cause that is the sump still there
looks to me piece of a conrod

[r32 uberwagen]

it was one hell of a puddle- almost a road lake.

turns out it is the bottom of a rod- how it got out ive no idea, and i guess the fragments of alloy that came with it where chunks of sump.....



this is gonna cost a lot

[Manaz]

wowwww did a puddle cause that is the sump still there
looks to me piece of a conrod

That was what I was thinking - the bottom half of the conrod which goes around the bottom of the crankshaft. You'd certainly know if that were missing - you'd have a *serious* oil leak due to punching a hole in your bottom end - theoretically possible if the car ingested a lot of water (hydraulic lock in the cylinder)...

Are you sure it fell off your car, rather than getting fired up into the underneath off the road?

EDIT: Seems we posted at the same time. I'd have to guess your air intake sucked in a substantial amount of water, and when a piston rose during the compression stroke, you experienced hydraulic lock (liquid water doesn't compress) and that's blown a hole out the bottom of your block.

Time for a new bottom end...