Hi Folks.
Wondering if it is ok to put a Ford Focus 2009 110psi diesel engine into a 2008 Ford Focus 90psi diesel car. Would it have any implications on the running of the car and could it actually allow the head gasket to go faster than it would.
Bought a car with what was meant to be a re-con engine with 70k on it. The head gasket went at 20 weeks after purchase. Garage deny all responsibility for the problem. When we pointed out in writing the problem and that we had found out the engine presented itself as a scrap engine, as directed by the Consumer Helpline, the garage then put in writing that it was a replacement engine with 75k on the clock.
We have been trying to find out more information about the engine and eventually found out today that the engine came from the same type of car, albeit and estate car, but that the PSi was 110. Where the original engine was a 90psi.
The car garage are refusing to give any paperwork regarding the replacement engine. They have said to our solicitor that as we had done 10k in the car, it is of no use to us what so ever. We have always disputed the mileage, but due to no-one ever having checked the clock on the day of purchase, and not comparing it to the exact amount of 145k he put on the receipt, and he did not inform the DVLA of the mileage when he sent the log book in (I'm aware he doesn't have to) we have no way at all of proving any different).
But the garage also put on the receipt the old original engine number. The one that he had just previously taken out of the car and replaced with this 110psi engine.
We have been fighting this since October 2013 and I feel so desperate!
Garages have said that they will repair the head gasket but will give no guarantees to the repair. We have no written confirmation that it has only done 70/75k, but also, apparently the head may have already been torqued down, and it can only be torqued down once!
The car is sitting with no MOT, on SORN and has moved nowhere since October.
Any ideas anyone
Thanks from a really desperate desperate person!!!
Wondering if it is ok to put a Ford Focus 2009 110psi diesel engine into a 2008 Ford Focus 90psi diesel car. Would it have any implications on the running of the car and could it actually allow the head gasket to go faster than it would.
Bought a car with what was meant to be a re-con engine with 70k on it. The head gasket went at 20 weeks after purchase. Garage deny all responsibility for the problem. When we pointed out in writing the problem and that we had found out the engine presented itself as a scrap engine, as directed by the Consumer Helpline, the garage then put in writing that it was a replacement engine with 75k on the clock.
We have been trying to find out more information about the engine and eventually found out today that the engine came from the same type of car, albeit and estate car, but that the PSi was 110. Where the original engine was a 90psi.
The car garage are refusing to give any paperwork regarding the replacement engine. They have said to our solicitor that as we had done 10k in the car, it is of no use to us what so ever. We have always disputed the mileage, but due to no-one ever having checked the clock on the day of purchase, and not comparing it to the exact amount of 145k he put on the receipt, and he did not inform the DVLA of the mileage when he sent the log book in (I'm aware he doesn't have to) we have no way at all of proving any different).
But the garage also put on the receipt the old original engine number. The one that he had just previously taken out of the car and replaced with this 110psi engine.
We have been fighting this since October 2013 and I feel so desperate!
Garages have said that they will repair the head gasket but will give no guarantees to the repair. We have no written confirmation that it has only done 70/75k, but also, apparently the head may have already been torqued down, and it can only be torqued down once!
The car is sitting with no MOT, on SORN and has moved nowhere since October.
Any ideas anyone
Thanks from a really desperate desperate person!!!