WBM346Z Driver's Diary

Following on from the Powertrain error codes and a bit of further investigation on an unidentified and intermittent rattle I have had for some time I decided to do a Compression Test. Unfortunately the results were not what I wanted, there was virtually no compression in Cylinder 1 and Cylinder 2. As a result I would need to pull the head and check the head gasket as there was more than likely a failure between the two Cylinders. After me and a mate got the head off what we found was not pretty. Not only has the head gasket failed between Cylinder 1 and Cylinder 2, there was now reasonably extensive damage to the Cylinder wall between the two cylinders. I took a photo of the work below: Now I was going to have to find a local engine shop to take a look before I could assess my options any further...

I was driving a mate from overseas around the city and beaches today. It was pretty hot but there was no real signs of issues with the car. We had been driving around most of the day no problems. Then after a quick lunch somewhere when I went to turn the car on again, I was hit straight away with a Check Engine Light. I quickly loaded up Torque on the head unit and read the codes. I took a photo to show you what I was faced with: I saved them to a file and cleared them to see if they would be triggered again and then drove off. The codes never returned but this will have to be investigated further...