Need immediately help - 99 camry engined seized suddenly.

Is there oil in the motor, coolant, trans fluid, if it cranks fast its probably the timing belt

Given what appears to be other people's experiences described on this newgroup, and as confirmed by my personal experience getting stuck on the highway, I'll bet the water pump seized up and then took the timing belt with it.

Hello Everybody,

The oil and water levels are all in good level. I just had my oil change a month before. Larry was right. The water pump seized. Luckily I was under 5 yr power train/engine warranty. The dealer did the service and it covered by the warranty. After this incident I always have this feeling that my car may stop at any time during driving. I hope I will be out of this pretty soon. The dealer also adivced me to change the timing belt since he noticed wear and tear of my timing belt during water pump replacement. He mentioned that he can change the timing belt at the discounted rate since the part of the engined has to be dismandled to replace the water pump. He quoted around $125 to change the timing belt. My car was already in its 50k miles. I think as per the manual I have to change the timing belt at 60k. So I decided to go ahead and change the timing belt. I checked with my collegues about replacing timing belt for $125 and some of them suggested that it was a good deal. Let me know your comments also. I got the car back with the new pump and timing belt. It runs very good. Thanks for all your help.

Hello Everybody,

The oil and water levels are all in good level. I just had my oil change a month before. Larry was right. The water pump seized. Luckily I was under 5 yr power train/engine warranty. The dealer did the service and it covered by the warranty. After this incident I always have this feeling that my car may stop at any time during driving. I hope I will be out of this pretty soon. The dealer also adivced me to change the timing belt since he noticed wear and tear of my timing belt during water pump replacement. He mentioned that he can change the timing belt at the discounted rate since the part of the engined has to be dismandled to replace the water pump. He quoted around $125 to change the timing belt. My car was already in its 50k miles. I think as per the manual I have to change the timing belt at 60k. So I decided to go ahead and change the timing belt. I checked with my collegues about replacing timing belt for $125 and some of them suggested that it was a good deal. Let me know your comments also. I got the car back with the new pump and timing belt. It runs very good.

Thanks for all your help.

Did the motor seize, did it overheat, did they only need to replace the pump. Of course the belt is ng it wore down on a seized pump. Why should you pay. Warranty should cover it, id think

Yes the service manager mentioned that only the motor seized. So they replaced only the pump and nothing else. I repeatedly asked him many times is there any other damage becauase of water pump seizure. He said no. I did asked him why I should pay for the timing belt. He mentioned there was no damange for any other parts because of water pump seize. While he was replacing the water pump he noticed that my timing belt has got wear and tear as per my mileage which is around

48K. He mentioned that around 60K it needs to be changed as per the manual. Since the engine is dismandled to replace water pump he said he can replace timing belt at the same time for a discounted rate which is $125. Please comment..

Thanks

You just said the motor seized , you do mean only the pump, yes. You may have oveheated the motor, keep an eye on it to see if anything develops, leaks , rough running, water in oil. pay for the belt , you are lucky it could have been worse.

I would check your maintenance schedule in the book provided to you. It may call for a timing belt change at 90K, not 60K. Depends on how long you plan to keep the car.

Thanks for the responses. The service manager said the motor pump seized. Can you tell me where is the placement of the motor pump so that I can check for any oil leaks, running water etc as mentioned? I am not very knowledgeable in vehicle parts and placement (as you can see from my previous posts). Any links to diagrams is greatly appreciated. Thanks again for all your help.

keep an eye on levels , oil dipstick ,and coolant level in bottle ,overheated motors can lose a head gasket, alowing either to leak .White exaust would be a coolant leak . But hopefully you are ok