My scooter has shit a brick (pics included)

[Motu]

F1 cars are 4 stroke and they have hydraulic failure.....A motor will hydraulic if it suddenly swallows a lung full of liquid,that could blow a bottom end apart.I don't think that's what happened here.....I guess a motor running out of oil could be termed a sort of hydraulic failure,but it's not the sort of terminology a bike shop would use.....mind you,some over qualified suit sitting at a desk in Suzuki's head office who's never physicaly touched an engine could easily word it in such a way.....

[Ixion]

Yeah, that's what I'd assume. Hydraulic = oil. It ran out of oil, seized a bearing and threw a rod. But somebody has to use a big pretentious term. Maybe thought the customer was less likely to argue about "hydraulic failure, Sir, not covered by warranty I'm afraid", then "you didn't put oil in it"

[Warren]

Strange termanology but it is what they relayed to me and is probably quoted from the manual. At least I know that fish die of hydraulic failure when they are taken away from water.

I guess they can always find something to blame the customer with. It has 4,000km service intervals and it was serviced by them less than 2000kms ago (albiet very late for it's first service) but according to the manual I should be performing daily oil checks.

[Motu]

Left to itself and fed a steady diet of fuel and oil at the correct intervals an internal combustion engine could almost run forever - they die under the care of humans....

[inlinefour]

looks fatal