It's very easy to ever rev it, just go from 6th gear to 2nd and you will be doing 3 zillion rpm. The electronic limiter does nothing for you then. Kaboom. Or often delayed kaboom.

 

I never miss gears though, I read on here thar it can do damage so I've always made a point of not skipping gears, going up or down the box.

 

It's a secondhand car though.

For people who do stupid things like downchange mid-corner, it's very easy to go from 5th to 2nd. Ask EP3/EM3 owners!

Although that normally causes interference between valves & pistons & the conred exits stage right.

Your symptoms (run crank bearings) are more associated with the Bad Oil Blues.

 

True, no one knows how it's been treated in the past. I know I've been vague with what the problem is but does anyone know if its an expensive fix?

 

have they compression tested each cylinder? that will give you a pretty good idea to which bearing has failed if its a faulty big end.

please keep us informed as be interesting to see if it has suffered similar problems to mine did.

if they offer to re-build it because of a failed big end be cautious of debris from it being thrown around the engine oil ways by the oil pump and make sure they replace the oil pump with a brand new one. dont want them to rebuild it then have some debris in a oil gallery to clog it up and make it go pop again.