Charade 86 Engine Seized

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Charade 86 Engine Seized

Dear friends

I had terrible incident.. I was running my car on CNG since 2-3 months without using on petrol. Yesterday i thought of using it on petrol as well.. when i tried to converted it to petrol it was taking full race.. i tried to press accelerator to full many times but it was not running smoothly so i deiced to put it back to CNG but it stopped.... So i called mechanic he came and open carburator n tried to put petrol from above n started the car... but car started with strange sound and engine oil light turned up.... even though engine oil was there....

He said oil pump didn't work and Engine seems to have siezed Now guys can u suggest what could have gone wrong here.. Why the car running smothly on CNG got engine sizeed just by turning to petrol??

and now what should be done?? complete overhaul will be required?? he said Cam Shaft seems to have seized and for rest i need to open engine to examine the damage..

How much expense i should expect here??

Gari.pk User 626 asked on 16 Jun 2010 14:35:15 pm

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Zain - on 16 Jun 2010 14:35:28 pm

Hmm well get opinion of some other mechanic as well.
I dont think it was due to converting it to petrol if the oil pump stoped working did you notice the light blinking or turned on while you were running the car?

Normaly if the oil pumps stops it takes few mins to sieze the engine.

BTW did you properly burned the petrol before switching the CNG?

Dun know why it seems some other problem. but if its is engine failure than.

Complete overhaul will cost u around 25 thousand.

But just fixing cams, Putting new rings and geting valve job will cost you around 12 to 13 thousand that will be good enough.