Originally Posted by JTECHSAFF
lol!
when it happened to me id never heard of ANYONE it happening to before. maybe we should start a club
mine was i dunno, 2001 maybe? fresh rebuild in the 3door, think i may have still been running it in. went to start it but it just turned over, didnt start.
got out to check under the bonnet and the oil filter had blew and was oil everywhere.
presuming it was a faulty filter i went n got a new one and a load more oil and it did it again!

then once engine out n checked it had caned my brand new fucking bearings