PLEASE tell me it isn't precat related... it's white?!?!

[Anonymous]

oil starvation? so basically what you're saying is that the whether it's the little end, or the lifters, the engine is still pretty much screwed?

I'm still going to go to this garage at lunch as I feel I need to have a diagnosis from someone with a good reputation who's looked and listened to the engine, to add some weight to my kicking off with the breakers.

It's looking more and more like it's going to be a resistor across the O2 sensor to clear the CEL and an attempted part-ex/swap at a car supermarket or something, unless the breakers either offer to cover the cost of the engine swap (and I can find another engine for about £600-800), or offer to repair the engine (but from the sounds of what you've said, it may be cheaper to source another engine); Neither of which I can afford myself...