Timeline for Is it really impossible to fix a seized engine?
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 5:39 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | I'm no fan of replacing your car with known problems -- with a random car with random problems off the used-car market. The very fact that your car is a known quantity has a cash value that should not be underestimated. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 19:01 | comment | added | Shane | @CramerTV The first sentence says it is impractical to repair the engine. The rest of the post describes how to determine if it is practical to repair the car with a replacement engine. They're close, but not quite the same thing. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 17:26 | comment | added | CramerTV | @PeteCon, people bring (or tow) their vehicles with misbehaving or broken transmissions to my shop every week. We'll simply have to disagree with what's practical or not. Sometimes I disagree with customers on a course of action but that doesn't make me right for what's going on in their lives. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 17:20 | comment | added | PeteCon | @CramerTV Possible? Yes. Practical? No. The first sentence is valid. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 17:06 | comment | added | CramerTV | The first sentence is at odds with the rest of the answer. You say that it's not practical but then offer a way to determine if it's practical. I would suggest removing the first sentence. Unfortunately, it also does not really answer the question asked. The answer is that it's not impossible to fix a seized engine. Offering details on the cost/benefit analysis of fixing it though, is valuable additional information. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 14:53 | comment | added | PeteCon | @MichaelMolter Depends on where you live, but in our area, the local news website has a classified section for cars, and another for non-running cars; you'd look at the value of similar non-running cars (and take off 25% - what people ask, and what they sell for, are not the same number) | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 4:41 | comment | added | Solar Mike | @MichaelMolter the value for B could be negative if you have to pay to have it taken away and scrapped... | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 22:01 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @JonasBezzubovas You don't have to move on. Obtain a used engine, or (since apparently you don't need the car everyday) pull the engine and send it to a rebuilder. Or obtain a new engine if obtainable. A lot of people equate "engine wore out" to "time for a new car", but that's because they expect if the engine has run its normal life, therefore everything else on the car is worn out too. Not in your case; your engine failed early because oil wasn't checked. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 20:32 | comment | added | Michael Molter | But does that really provide the price of the car, given it has X problem? | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 20:30 | comment | added | Graham | @MichaelMolter In the UK, we have Parker's Guide and Glass's Guide, which both cover the expected value of and common problems with all recent production cars. Parker's is partially free online; Glass's has gone paid-only; although I believe you can still get paper versions of both. Also check average prices on reputable second-hand websites such as Autotrader for the same model of car. I expect most countries will have similar sites. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 19:59 | comment | added | Michael Molter | Out of curiosity and completeness, how would you approach finding B? I can't imagine a real-life situation where I would be able to get a "good" estimate of B. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 19:51 | comment | added | AaronD | @JonasBezzubovas If you'd like to include an emotional attachment, you can add it to a. But don't expect your finances to notice. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 15:12 | comment | added | Jalapeno | 'Emotionally, you'd like to keep this car; but logically, it's time for it to move on' words have never cut so deep | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 14:53 | history | answered | PeteCon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |