Garage has aquired car in a misleading way!

Ibrahim5

It's a bit like a cut & shut car. Theoretically it could be OK but it normally isn't. Either someone has had the engine in pieces and tried to put it back together or they have thrown an unknown engine in. I wouldn't want either.

ontheroad1970

Ibrahim5 said:

It's a bit like a cut & shut car. Theoretically it could be OK but it normally isn't. Either someone has had the engine in pieces and tried to put it back together or they have thrown an unknown engine in. I wouldn't want either.

Fred, the problem with your 'advice' is that it is so heavily biased, that no one sensible and alert to your bias will ever follow it.  Yes, sure there is a risk that it may have been put together in a bad way.  There is also a good chance that the garage has used it as a training exercise for staff, knowing that he is risking only scrap value if it all went wrong, and it has been put together well.  It is up to the purchaser to do their due diligence and check the car over properly, or fi they don't know how, bring someone who does, even if they have to pay them for their time.  They should definitely not look to view youtube videos as their sole method of minimising risk of buying a lemon.  

Grumpy_chap

ontheroad1970 said:

There is also a good chance that the garage has used it as a training exercise for staff, 

This can happen - I had a Mondeo 2007 2.5 petrol and at a little over 100k miles in 2014, the timing belt snapped.  It was less than 3 weeks since Ford had fitted a new belt.  After some arguing, Ford did an engine rebuild and returned my car.  The Service Manager mentioned at one point it was being used as training for the Apprentice.

I was not comfortable with the car as, in my view, modern engines are not made to be stripped apart and rebuilt given the very fine tolerances.  I made the decision to get rid asap.

It is quite possible that the Apprentice was paying extra diligence to the task and taking care as please to be trusted as I can see online, the car seems to be still going strong with current tax and last MOT was May 21 at 138k miles.

DB1904

ontheroad1970 said:

Ibrahim5 said:

It's a bit like a cut & shut car. Theoretically it could be OK but it normally isn't. Either someone has had the engine in pieces and tried to put it back together or they have thrown an unknown engine in. I wouldn't want either.

Fred, the problem with your 'advice' is that it is so heavily biased, that no one sensible and alert to your bias will ever follow it.  Yes, sure there is a risk that it may have been put together in a bad way.  There is also a good chance that the garage has used it as a training exercise for staff, knowing that he is risking only scrap value if it all went wrong, and it has been put together well.  It is up to the purchaser to do their due diligence and check the car over properly, or fi they don't know how, bring someone who does, even if they have to pay them for their time.  They should definitely not look to view youtube videos as their sole method of minimising risk of buying a lemon.  

Well said mercedesdriver.

motorguy

ontheroad1970 said:

Ibrahim5 said:

It's a bit like a cut & shut car. Theoretically it could be OK but it normally isn't. Either someone has had the engine in pieces and tried to put it back together or they have thrown an unknown engine in. I wouldn't want either.

Fred, the problem with your 'advice' is that it is so heavily biased, that no one sensible and alert to your bias will ever follow it.  Yes, sure there is a risk that it may have been put together in a bad way.  There is also a good chance that the garage has used it as a training exercise for staff, knowing that he is risking only scrap value if it all went wrong, and it has been put together well.  It is up to the purchaser to do their due diligence and check the car over properly, or fi they don't know how, bring someone who does, even if they have to pay them for their time.  They should definitely not look to view youtube videos as their sole method of minimising risk of buying a lemon.  

Well said.

I really dont get what pleasure Fred gets out of derailing threads and giving mis-advice.  He seems quite happy to cost innocent forum users £££s with bad advice.  His bitter biased views also distract people from the real useful information the rest of us are trying to provide.

Ibrahim5

I haven't even given any advice.

motorguy

Ibrahim5 said:

I haven't even given any advice.

Yes, i'm glad we're all in agreement Fred.

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Happened to someone's EcoBoost engine at work but at least the garage offered them £1000 cash for it which they took.

Ibrahim5

I have never had any problem with any engine I have ever owned. All my cars have had famously good engines. I avoided the Ecoboost specifically because it was new and had no track record.

motorguy

Ibrahim5 said:

I have never had any problem with any engine I have ever owned. All my cars have had famously good engines. I avoided the Ecoboost specifically because it was new and had no track record.

Neither have i.  And i'd say most people could say the same of their car history. 

Whats your point?