Karnage Corsa
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Registered: 4th Nov 02
Location: Norton, Stockton-on-Tees
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In approxamately febuary this year I had my valver conversion fitted and ever since I have had nothing but bother with it, from the oil cooler going to oil leeks, water leaks, power steering pipe leak, power steering and fan belts snapping, I have had 2 gearboxes in it, to other stuff I cant even think of, reently I broke down with the engine severely hot and steam pissing out from under the bonnet.
The engine was purchased from a place called morgans breakers in Guisbrough for £600 by the lads that fitted the conversion, Iknow all this is strictly not his fault cos he dont know what the engine has been through, but he was assured that the engine was in mint condition only done 70 something miles and was basically mint.
My boss has been lookign at the engine this morning and its basically a wreck, apparantly the head has been off before and not fitted correctly, its had 3 new pistons god knows why not four, its had new valves, the water pipe is completyelycorroded or what evr you would call it, one of the bolts that goes in the head did not have a washer and thats where the gasket has fu@ked.
esulting in totally knackered head gasket hoping the head is not knackered hopefully I have got away with it, my gaffer thinks the bottom end could be knackered depending on what temperature the engine was at when it cut out, I am absolutely devestated at the amount of money I have had to pay out on this engine, I know you can never rule out damage to an engine but the amount of work I have had to carry out on this engine is unreal, problem is can I do anything or not ?
I mean I know this has nothing to do with the lads that carried out the conversion and I do not blame them in any way but surely the breakers yard must of known the state of the engine do I have a claim lagally or am I totally at a loss thanks a lot Paul...
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Karnage Corsa
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Registered: 4th Nov 02
Location: Norton, Stockton-on-Tees
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anyone ???
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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Goods must be fit for the purpose and you'd have a hard job proving the problems were apparent at the time of sale.
I'd speak to Trading Standards, and the breakers as well to see what both parties make of it.
Trading Standards will tell you to rectify the problem with the trader in the first instance and you need to exhaust that line of enquiry first before they'll act. They might not entertain anything, or they may offer a cheap replacement as a good will gesture or that may replace the entire engine. Until you know which there's no real 'claim' to put together.
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Karnage Corsa
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Registered: 4th Nov 02
Location: Norton, Stockton-on-Tees
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Ok mate so basically whatever happens I have a massive loss on my hands whols conversion has ended up costing me over 3k upto now unbelievable
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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The breakers sold you the engine and if thats the problem then yeah, you need another engine or 600 to fix that one, and thats the breakers problem.
The labour on fitting the replacement is unfortunately lost if its not the fault of the people who did this.
Thats why companies like Regal, Courtenay etc. charge thousands anyway - so they're solely responsible for the whole job.
[Edited on 24-10-2004 by Ian]
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