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Originally Posted by Vipergrün
I am pretty on top of car maintenance and was planning on changing the oil in my 2.3l Mazda 3 this past weekend. Seems I went too long between fluid checks and was about a quart low on oil. Have been reading that the Duratec motors burn oil, which I did not know. No idiot lights came on.
Anyway, was taking a fairly aggressive turn. Looks like I starved the engine of oil due to the lower level and spun a bearing or something. Got a nice knocking noise now. Changed the oil when I got home and sure enough.....metal flake....bummer.
Take her to the shop on Thurs. Any idea what I am looking at cost-wise?
Anyone ever have this happen??
TIA!
-Brad
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It's an issue with almost all the modern smaller displacement fours.
My opinion would be to rebuild your motor. I'm not sure how mechanically inclined you are, but it's not rocket science. Even if you pay a shop to have it pulled and stripped to a long block then you bring it to your machine shop. You don't have to turn a wrench, just act as a general contractor. It's likely that all you'll have to do is grind the crank, resize (or replace) the effected rod, test/mic everything else, and put it back together with new bearings, rings, and gaskets. That's what I'd do anyway. No question.
Otherwise you're looking at $1500-1800 for a used motor, another $500 in labor to R&R, and a couple hundred more for the incidentals (fluids, filters, bolts, etc).