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They might be willing to cover the costs up to yourvike replacement. Say the junkyard engine is going to run them $1100 and a reman $1800. They pay 11 you pay 7.
Btw I had a junkyard 350 installed in a work truck. That engine ran for 2 years and 120,000 before I sold the truck. I used to drive a average of 1k miles a week.
Thank you.. That's what I was trying to say, but butchered it beyond belief.
My son worked at an oil change place while in college, and a tech forgot to tighten the drain plug. Same thing happened as your motor, it fried . The oil change place had their insurance pay for a new motor.
I would not roll over on this one. You took in a good running car and they screwed up. Make them put a good motor in there with a warranty. Junkyard motors are a crap shoot, so get some assurances it will be a good one. You knew how good your old motor was, but you have no history on the new one. It could be good and it could be crap.
Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Don't let them walk over you.
Never ever see a 90 day warranty as anything of value. If you put the engine in and it's bad then you have to take it out and then put another engine in again and still not know if the engine is any good. Ya, maybe they will give you another junk yard engine but you had to spend all you time putting it in and then taking it out again. Anyway you look at it it's a bad deal for the owner.
Any way I look at it, is a *good* deal for the owner.
A 160K mile "Jeep" bought for $3K is probably a bit dodgy to begin with, on general principles. Thought those had (very) high resale for some bizarre reason, despite being somewhere in Consumer Report's basement and behind the furnace in terms of build quality, ride, and general usefulness. Ergo: a newly rebuilt engine in a platform wobbly to begin with? That should have blown up on its own about sixty K miles ago? That's like a refurb motherboard in my four year old laptop I was going to sell for parts.
If the refreshed engine blows up tomorrow afternoon on Mile 1, or five years from now on Mile 225K, the guy's waaaaaay ahead of the 8-ball. He just got what my dad called "a left-handed gift from the Gods." If same happened on a $140K Porsche 911 or even $30K Toyota Camry, I'd be gravely concerned. One, at the stupidity of not changing one's own oil on the Porsche (or going to a qualified speed shop); and/or two, being faced with a very difficult conundrum on a car known for quality running to high mileage on OEM parts (the Camry, dull though it may be).
Yet another reason I take my not-too-exciting but highly reliable Tacoma X-Runner with TRD Supercharger to the local dealer I trust for oil changes: in the event of such an obvious technician error, I'm reasonably sure they'd make it right. Plus they send out coupons via flier a couple times per year making full-synth oil changes competitively priced.
Absolutely agree, I'm the same way. I'm a bit of a motorhead but the kid is NOT. He has no interest whatsoever. It's almost as if my kids make it a point to not be interested in something that I am. Although I will say he welded in some new floorpans in the Jeep last year and seem to enjoy the job. But he really wants nothing to do with the engine, brakes or suspension stuff. He's a strange one. But I think he now realizes the importance of paying attention to what the car is doing when driving it. I could never have NOT noticed something is wrong when that thing was losing oil, much less continue to drive it. It's funny, we have 2 sons and a daughter. The youngest isn't of driving age yet, but our daughter is not only a better driver than our son, but a lot more mechanically inclined! I've given up trying to figure that one out.
What I would have done, when they located that engine, how much?
Have them pay you a sum with finding the engine yourself and having a reputable shop put it in for you all on their dime.
Im assuming they have to have another shop do it since most big chains only have a limited amount of tools and know how.
I don't get this either. A double-gasketed filter would've hemorrhaged oil as soon as the tech backed the car out of the bay. They must have some real geniuses working there to not notice.
This surprises me as well since most oil-change places require their technicians have at least a masters degree in engineering.
I could see oil leaking if there was no gasket but you've got two. How could you have oil practically pouring out?
Because the gasket left behind on the engine is not retained inside the groove in the oil filter. and blows out under pressure. This is a known phenomenon.
I had that happen with the oil filter gasket before on an 02 Explorer, I made it about 3 miles before the doubled gaskets blew out and erupted blue smoke everywhere . It didn't damage the engine because it happened just as I pulled into a gas station, but it was embarrassing though. Everytime I change the filter now I check several times to make sure that old gasket comes off.
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That means he's not looking at his dash watching his speed.
. It didn't damage the engine because it happened just as I pulled into a gas station, but it was embarrassing though. Everytime I change the filter now I check several times to make sure that old gasket comes off.
