So kid bought a '02 civic a couple weeks back from a local auction. It had a limp-mode CEL on it, which turned out to be a VTEC issue, which stemmed from a head-swap done wrong.
This weekend we finished pulling the head and everything off (pretty cool father/son affair), and everything in the bay minus tranny/block/AC compressor is laid out neatly on a tarp (pics upon request ;-).
We got a call this morning that they dealer was doing the title transaction and found out that it has a salvage title. We were not disclosed this at the time of the purchase. They offered to refund the purchase price/taxes/etc ... but we're probably in ~650 for the head swap (between head+mill, water pump, oil pump, misc pieces, belts/gaskets, liquids/solvents/consumables, etc), excluding labor. We can return maybe $150 of it if we stop right now, leaving a pretty huge $500 gap (+12-14 hours of labor (I'm a newb)).
We are not interested in trying to clean the title -- totally not worth it. Put it back together and return it? Throw all the parts in the trunk and return it? Do we have a case to attempt to recover some of our costs?
Thoughts? :-/
This weekend we finished pulling the head and everything off (pretty cool father/son affair), and everything in the bay minus tranny/block/AC compressor is laid out neatly on a tarp (pics upon request ;-).
We got a call this morning that they dealer was doing the title transaction and found out that it has a salvage title. We were not disclosed this at the time of the purchase. They offered to refund the purchase price/taxes/etc ... but we're probably in ~650 for the head swap (between head+mill, water pump, oil pump, misc pieces, belts/gaskets, liquids/solvents/consumables, etc), excluding labor. We can return maybe $150 of it if we stop right now, leaving a pretty huge $500 gap (+12-14 hours of labor (I'm a newb)).
We are not interested in trying to clean the title -- totally not worth it. Put it back together and return it? Throw all the parts in the trunk and return it? Do we have a case to attempt to recover some of our costs?
Thoughts? :-/
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