Advice on Codes and N20 Engine Failure

waldron80 · 09-18-2022, 02:16 PM

Wife was driving out of town and the engine straight up stopped. In my wife's words, "So I just had a random low oil pressure warning, car engine didn't sound good, it said 'loss of power', and told me to pull over." She was two hours away. When she pus the button to start again she got a warning like "We really don't recommend doing that but we will if you want us to" kind of warning. We had it towed to to my mechanic.

At first I thought it could be the timing chain. When looking through the oil cap and trying to wiggle the timing chain everything seems tight (crossing my fingers). My mechanic when I called him think it may be the oil pump? I have not heard about the oil pump being issues before but I may just be out of the loop.

Car: 2013 xDrive28i with 145k Miles

Here are the codes I pulled...Mechanic has not looked at the car yet as I just dropped it off yesterday.
3447
2F7C
2F78
31E9
2BCB
315A
33FE
2D61
2C58
3408
3406
2D9F

Based on all of this....Does anyone have any advice? What should I be cautious of when my mechanic starts talking about $1k for this and $1k for that? Thoughts?

Thanks!

Side rant....The fact you can't put these cars in to neutral without getting underneath and screwing in some stupid nut is INSANE!

4_ring_circus · 09-19-2022, 07:06 AM

Maybe not based off the codes but I bought an X1 with a dead engine. I would pull the oil pan and have a look at the oil pickup, will probably be plugged solid with pieces of broken timing chain guide.

Normally the guides are the pieces that fail.

09-18-2022, 02:16 PM	#1
waldron80 Private First Class 32 Rep 112 Posts Drives: 08 e90 M3 6MT Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: United States iTrader: (0)	Advice on Codes and N20 Engine Failure Wife was driving out of town and the engine straight up stopped. In my wife's words, "So I just had a random low oil pressure warning, car engine didn't sound good, it said 'loss of power', and told me to pull over." She was two hours away. When she pus the button to start again she got a warning like "We really don't recommend doing that but we will if you want us to" kind of warning. We had it towed to to my mechanic. At first I thought it could be the timing chain. When looking through the oil cap and trying to wiggle the timing chain everything seems tight (crossing my fingers). My mechanic when I called him think it may be the oil pump? I have not heard about the oil pump being issues before but I may just be out of the loop. Car: 2013 xDrive28i with 145k Miles Here are the codes I pulled...Mechanic has not looked at the car yet as I just dropped it off yesterday. 3447 2F7C 2F78 31E9 2BCB 315A 33FE 2D61 2C58 3408 3406 2D9F Based on all of this....Does anyone have any advice? What should I be cautious of when my mechanic starts talking about $1k for this and $1k for that? Thoughts? Thanks! Side rant....The fact you can't put these cars in to neutral without getting underneath and screwing in some stupid nut is INSANE! __________________
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4_ring_circus Private 14 Rep 71 Posts Drives: Corrado, Audi S4, X1 128xi Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: London, ON iTrader: (0)	Maybe not based off the codes but I bought an X1 with a dead engine. I would pull the oil pan and have a look at the oil pickup, will probably be plugged solid with pieces of broken timing chain guide. Normally the guides are the pieces that fail.
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