About 1/2 mile from home, slowing to a stop, I realize the vx is clanking. Like a nut being rattled in a coffee can. I pull into my driveway and see nothing outside the engine broken, at first I thought something was hitting the fan or something. Noise is actually from the engine, at idle and load, all rpm. It increases with rpm. It's not like the sound of lifters when you have no oil. Im assuming it started when i accelerated onto an onramp about 3 miles before i noticed it when slowing down. Rod bearings crankshaft, etc,? Getting a tow truck either sometime this week if I can get a few hrs from work, or it may wait til a weekend. 130k miles. Burned oil. Time for a new engine? Obviously, not really looking for answers from vague unspecific forum posts by me, a non mechanic, but I'm really just displaying my Internet sad face....


Eh.