Dodgy motor

deadhac

My father bought a car about 6-9 months ago from a dealer, it only cost around 3k and was most likely a part exchange to clear. Its a 51 reg mondeo. However in last couple of months it has been ridden with problems. Problems with the valves and cylinders meant repairs of 1k has already been spent on it. And now a similar problem means that the engine will probably need to be replaced.

I have 3 points that i would like advice on:

• I doubt we have any comback from the dealer we bought it from
• Would you advice scrapping the car and getting a new vehicle
• Or fixing it up again and hope thats the end of the problems

Thanks

swiftnick

First question, how many miles has it done?

deadhac

I cant be precise but no more than 60-70k miles, At the moment we are looking into finding a second hand engine to put into it and waiting on our local garages advice

swiftnick

Not a lot of miles really then.

Trouble with fitting a second hand engine is can you be sure it's going to be any better than the one you're taking out?

We run the policy now we will only fit a second hand engine if supplied by the customer, as two faulty second hand engines we sourced for the same vehicle cost us thousands. And then ended up buying a new unit.

Our crime was trying to save the customer a few quid.

It's crystal balling I'm afraid.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

deadhac

No problems. Thanks for your help. Any other advice from anyone is much appreciated

harveybobbles

Maybe contact the garahe you bought it from. Ask for sone kind of goodwill or if they can recommend somewhere that will assist you?