My Impreza seized up in Scotland a week ago. It had done 72,000 miles and had been regularly serviced by Subaru dealers from new and had only come back from being serviced five days before it broke down. The garage has shown me the end cap and part of a conrod that had broken and dropped into the sump pan. No oil pressure warning light came on and the engine showed no signs of overheating before stopping. Earlier I had noticed a metallic tinkling noise but had put that down to an exhaust heat guard that I had had trouble with before. I was hoping that somebody might have an idea as to why and how my engine should so suddenly die! For those of you who don't know Scotland it is a country crammed with police radar traps hidden around every bend! That is my way of saying - I wasn't thrashing the car and was cruising well within the 60mph speed limit! I am baffled, and so is the garage who say it was just bad luck that it happened. Very expensive bad luck!
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18 years ago