M60 failure on the motorway.

[Hani]

Just got back from my 12 hour ordeal. Was driving up to liverpool from bristol got to about junction 12 on the M6 when i noticed smoke coming out the back of my car. So i pulled into the to find my 'Cyclone manifold' had dumped almost all my oil into the engine and it was smoking like crazy. Having no cover and no money on me had to phone parents to get RAC cover(they screwed me over I paid 95 plus 69 quid extra for already having a problem to be told i couldn't be towed home for 24 hours), So I paid a private guy, got the car towed to liverpool as it was full of my friends stuff(200pounds for that). So now my car is sitting in Liverpool, i'm in bristol.

Right now heres the questions:
-Could the rac tow my car from an address back to bristol without me being there, or would i need to get a train back?
-The BMW guys want 200 for fitting a new 30 pound cylone manifold. So i'm wondering first can I get one and could i fix it my self i assume seeing as its 170 labour it might be a little on the difficult side.
-Has anyone heard of this problem before?

[Geeman]

What's a cyclone manifold...?

[Richy325iTouring]

as long as there someone either end to sign for the car then yes
i ahve done this
you dont need to travel with the car

[Hani]

thats good news on the RAC front.

[Demlotcrew]

whats a cyclone manifold?

Andrew

[Hani]

Not too sure, from what i've gathered its part of the cyclone seperator which seperates the bad bits out of the oil and then send the clean oil into the engine.

[Geeman]

Oooooh... never heard of one of those before... I thought they were called oil filters...

[johnono]

got a picture of a cyclone fanimould?

[Hani]

me too, i guess they thought spinning it around would be better.

[Ant]

cyclone valves are common on most BMW after the e30s reign had ended ( ) not had many fail on the M60 engines though.

M44/M43 seem to eat them every 25K

[Geeman]

Aaaaaah, it's not on an E30 then... that's where I was getting confused...