Just my luck

[GoldenOne]

In a similar incident to Kristupher's thread: http://www.bimmer.info/forum/showthread.php?t=23108

My 525i just died instantly on the highway today. I was cruising around 70 mph then I felt a weird vibration from the back of the car and my gut told me something was wrong. I took the next exit and all of the sudden the car died and boy was it a pain to stop rolling from 40mph...thank god for shoguns(i think thats who it was) thread about the reviving the parking break.

My observations was that the temp indicator was normal (in the middle), half a tank of fuel, and no indicators were set off. I took a peek under the hood and it looks like the head gasket expanded/warped. So I look under the oil filler cap and it looks like it was bone dry! I did have a small leak but nothing catastrophic, infact I had check the level on Wednesday three times and it was perfect. If it was that low why didnt I get a check oil light? And if it was running w/o oil wouldnt that shoot the temp gauge through the roof?

I had it towed to my mechanic so I will try to get picks on Monday. The one damn time I didnt have my camera on me!!

If in fact there was no oil in the engine, that means its pretty much dead correct?


WHY ME!!??!?!?!?!?!?!