six inches was too much for her. written off.

So having got my MOT last week (after the whole binding brake/LSD thing) I was up early the next day to take the dog for a walk and an excuse for a little blatt in the car.
On the way home I went down a few lanes (show my eldest the farm near Braunton Burrows with a jet fighter in the driveway) and came across a bit of water in the lane.
Car coming the other way came through it it was not up to the sills so I drive through.... (yes I hear you!)

Thing is I do recall reading about where our Italian friends had decided to locate the air intake when I first joined this forum after buying her, and i have a new filter in the garage to fit that I've not got round too... but a momentary "pah thats not deep" and well... you know what happens next.

In 1st gear, as slow as she will go... and a few yards in cough, splutter, clonk.

Then follows quite a bit of steam from under the hood and quite a few expletives that the 12 year old kindly didn't mention to mummy when recounting the tale.



Recovered her home, air filter is drenched. Undo sump plug and a few litres of water followed by the oil. All plugs removed and unable to turn the crank by hand more than a few degrees.

Game over.



Insurance company (literally added to my policy on the Friday at 11am, pre MOT at 12pm and puddle at 11am Saturday!) announced it a total loss within seconds of pressing the submit claim button online.

I'm keeping the car - had to send lots of photos to the engineers to get them to agree not a CatB and also ignore Copart pestering to collect her!

I'm not going to fix her myself though... to many other projects.
Not sure if I'm going to sell on as a complete project to someone else or just break her myself - need to see what stuffs worth I guess...

Beware them puddles folks!

Sad to read of the demise of another 4200.

Oh so sorry to hear this

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Agree very sad indeed.
What's the cost of a replacement engine these days ?

3-5k on ebay - all in Germany for some reason!

Jezbraker said:

3-5k on ebay - all in Germany for some reason!

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To be fair when I was looking 10 years ago for an engine for the 04 project 4200 I bought that was the price back then.

Oh that’s a ******! My Dad did the same a couple of years ago in a 5 series. I went to rescue him fully expecting to need waders but found the “flood” only came up to my ankles!

Very sad news.
Would be one or more of the con rods bent.
My wife managed to hydraulic our old 5 series engine, insurance covered replacement engine amazingly.
Out of interest what was the insurance pay out?
Enough to get another 4200?

With all the rain, there are puddles everywhere. I went through a deepish one, but was ok.

Very sad to read - but confirms I made a wise decision not to take mine to the Lake District.

how about fitting a tesla motor?

(ducks for cover)

It's so easy these days with air intakes so low down, shame but no point crying over split milk just move on.

****! More reason to enforce my fair weather car attitude with mine. The only time it's been rained on since I've owned it was when I had it in the shop for service and it had to sit there for a few days.

Such a shame. An Achilles heel for sure….
With the best will in the world, given UK weather, you’re going to get caught out at some point. It’s that, or never use it.

I think @2b1ask1 modded his previous car to move the air intake higher
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Ebenezer said:

I think @2b1ask1 modded his previous car to move the air intake higher
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As did I. But I’m now worried I should have gone full snorkel…

Sorry to hear this - they are pretty vulnerable in this regard.

A mate hydrolocked his Merc - he was on one side of the road in not much more Han surface water and a van caused a wave from the other side of the road - that was enough to kill his car.

Is an early quattroporte a straight swap? As they can be got for eay 4k with subrame and then sell off rest car? Or maybe there isn't much value in rest of a early quattroporte?

drellis said:

Is an early quattroporte a straight swap? As they can be got for eay 4k with subrame and then sell off rest car? Or maybe there isn't much value in rest of a early quattroporte?

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When I looked into it 10 years ago there are differences.

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When I looked into it 10 years ago there are differences.

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Insurmountable differences?

I bought a 4.0 engine for a jaguar XK8 that came out of an XJ8, everything bar the block & heads had to be swapped over, cams were different, manifolds, sump, big job but doable

Having said that the 4200 engines seem reliable so not fast sellers, I'd think a decent offer to the seller of any engine for sale would probably result in a purchase but having bought an engine on a pallet once I wouldn't do it again unless I'd seen it running

This BMW engine I bought on a pallet didn't go so well