BlueChariot
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- Mar 23, 2011
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- Age
- 32
- Location
- Thomasville, Georgia
- Vehicle Year
- '94
- Make / Model
- Mazda
- Engine Size
- 4.0
- Transmission
- Automatic
Long version in short form: Unfortunate things happened, I no longer had my Ranger. My uncle gave me an '84 Mazda, more unfortunate things happened. I then aquired my Vic and sold the Mazda. I bought an engine, had it installed, now more unfortunate things.
Details on the recent unfortunate events: I was referred by my cousin (who usually does the work on our vehicles that requires a shop) to a shop in town, went and talked to the guy who happened to have a 5.0 in his shop he was sellin which apparently came out of a Vic like mine. "My lucky day" I thought to myself. He wanted 500 for it. He informed me that it had been rebuilt, put in the car, some time later it became his (I think because the PO never paid him). It was then used as a demo derby car until it was crashed enough to scrap (please no comments on how stupid a move it may have been to buy an engine from a derby car, I've no clue why I was so ok with that at the time). He told me it ran fine when it was yanked.
I then wait an excessive ammount of time for an insurance job he already had in the works to be completed to get my car in there. It went in this past monday, and I picked it up today. When I left with it it had a CEL probably due to the TPS or related programing in the computer (3 TP sensors were tried on it with no change). Basicly, it would cut off once in gear depending on how you treated the throttle, but this improved with a battery he loaned me as mine was dead as dirt. The throttle was also a little wonky and the coolant temp sensor didn't work. He also told me the transmission was apparently leaking (which it certainly didn't do in my driveway which is the only place it's been since I took possession of it, and I drove it home when it's last engine was 3 inches from death) and needed 5 quarts of trans fluid. I was charged for 10.1 hours labor, hazmat disposal fee, oil and filter, and trans fluid totaling $603.15. (I had to borrow most of this)
Well, I get it home, my friend comes over and we inspect it a little, finding that it has blowby, grit in the oil, oil going where it shouldn't, and an oil leak. I found his home phone number in the good ol' yellowpages because it was after hours and I sure as hell wasn't gonna wait til monday to talk about this. He essentially said that me buying that engine from him was (as far as parts warranty goes) the same as buying from a junkyard. In other words, if it's messed up it's messed up.
Basicly, was I just the biggest idiot in the world? How screwed am I? and, What can be done about this?
Details on the recent unfortunate events: I was referred by my cousin (who usually does the work on our vehicles that requires a shop) to a shop in town, went and talked to the guy who happened to have a 5.0 in his shop he was sellin which apparently came out of a Vic like mine. "My lucky day" I thought to myself. He wanted 500 for it. He informed me that it had been rebuilt, put in the car, some time later it became his (I think because the PO never paid him). It was then used as a demo derby car until it was crashed enough to scrap (please no comments on how stupid a move it may have been to buy an engine from a derby car, I've no clue why I was so ok with that at the time). He told me it ran fine when it was yanked.
I then wait an excessive ammount of time for an insurance job he already had in the works to be completed to get my car in there. It went in this past monday, and I picked it up today. When I left with it it had a CEL probably due to the TPS or related programing in the computer (3 TP sensors were tried on it with no change). Basicly, it would cut off once in gear depending on how you treated the throttle, but this improved with a battery he loaned me as mine was dead as dirt. The throttle was also a little wonky and the coolant temp sensor didn't work. He also told me the transmission was apparently leaking (which it certainly didn't do in my driveway which is the only place it's been since I took possession of it, and I drove it home when it's last engine was 3 inches from death) and needed 5 quarts of trans fluid. I was charged for 10.1 hours labor, hazmat disposal fee, oil and filter, and trans fluid totaling $603.15. (I had to borrow most of this)
Well, I get it home, my friend comes over and we inspect it a little, finding that it has blowby, grit in the oil, oil going where it shouldn't, and an oil leak. I found his home phone number in the good ol' yellowpages because it was after hours and I sure as hell wasn't gonna wait til monday to talk about this. He essentially said that me buying that engine from him was (as far as parts warranty goes) the same as buying from a junkyard. In other words, if it's messed up it's messed up.
Basicly, was I just the biggest idiot in the world? How screwed am I? and, What can be done about this?