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That's pretty comparable to what I was budgeting and my planning assumed a $0 value at this point.
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And used car prices are just a bit higher now than 2 years ago…
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Initial diagnosis was VTEC spool valve. In opening it up for that and doing a valve adjustment, they found all kinds of metal shavings and damage to the camshafts. They stopped work and called because they don't think there's a point to continuing work. I asked for quotes on engine replacement. He guesstimated $5-$6k. Not sure if he was thinking reman or used and he said he'd give me quotes tomorrow for each. Used engines go for about $1500-$2500 on car-part.com and it looks remans are generally about $3500-$4000. Internet suggests it's about 10-12 hour job. Even for a car that would barely be worth $6k with a newly remanufactured engine at a cost of $5k (or even a little more), replacement seems preferable to spending that much on another beater of unknown history plus the time and effort to find it. If the price difference between used and reman is like what I think, reman is the way to go, right? The delta isn't huge and used would be of unknown history. Going to bite the bullet on labor vs attempting myself and trying to convince friends to help since I don't have time to make that happen. Sigh.
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Yikes. That’s a tough call…Is there a good Honda forum you can go down this rabbit hole with?
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But I'm not doing the work myself. The only question is whether to roll the dice to save ~$2k on a used engine that will probably have 75-150k on it. I'm thinking that spending extra for a reman is the better play. And the Takata recall was done on the car before I bought it.
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Low end remanufacturing is about replacing the obviously failed gaskets and applying a cost of spray paint.
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I agree with Nick. Low-end remanufacturing would make me worry. A lot.
The salvage yard from whom I've been buying engines has not done me wrong yet and I have bought four of them. They actually compression test each one, though it's clear they don't pop the valve covers and look at the cams or anything. John |
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