Purchasedused salvage engine 2002 2.7 liter 5 cylinder Mercedes turbo diesel Sprinterengine. Anthony Nelson the sales person saidthe engine had 90,000 miles on it and that it had been tested and was a goodrunning engine. Purchased2008_04_28. The engine arrived WITHOUT acompression tag attached to the engine... This is a common practice in thesalvage industry. The engine alsoarrived with broken belt/pulley wheels on the front of the engine, a brokenvalve cover, and the oil pan was cracked with a hair line crack. The injecters were rusted and very"ugly" according to the mechanics at slipstream auto care in boudler colorado. The engine was installed and now it runs verypoorly. I had to pay the Ferrero Dodge dealer in Loveland CO $600 todo diagnostics... Mike Windika was the tech... On the engine and the compression test came back as follows... Cylinder #1340 psicylinder #2300 psicylinder #3320cylinder #410cylinder #5320leak downtest... Using 100psicylinder #4 at TDC measures 95% leak down, the air is escaping through the oilcap and oil seperator... Crank shaft is rotated 10 degrees and now much of theair escapes through the intake valve... The crank shaft is rotated back to TDCand then 10 degrees the other direction and now much of the ais escapes throughthe exhaust tail pipe... Thus showing that the valves are seating/sealing whenthe engine is as TDC. The dealerbelieves an engine with only 90,000 miles should have compression values above400 psi for each cylinder in a diesel engine... They recently compression testedand engine over 140,000 from Floridathat was put in a FedEx Sprinter and all the cylinders in that engine were over400 psi. Presently wehave paid a mechanic at slipstream autocare... Http://www.slipstreamautocare.com/about/... 303-449-9843... Ask for Bill... in boulder colorado $3500 because the engine was in such poor shape many of theparts (injecters, valve cover, etc) from the engine that was removed from thevehicle had to be moved over to the engine from AutoSports Unlimited... A newoil pan had to be purchased... Now all the labor to remove this defective engineand put in a useable engine has to be redone. Afterattempting to have the charge of $2,901.00 reversed on our SamsClubDiscoverCardand subsequently being denied by GE Money (DiscoverCardNetwork), we concluded this was an expensive lesson learned the hard way. We had to park the van in my brother-in-laws field up in Greeley COfor months because our vehicle repair budget had been exhausted by thedefrauding we believe we had suffered because ofAutoSportsUnlimited. Filed a case the BBB case# 37011*on 2008_08_20Auto Sports Unlimited failed to repsond the BBB complaint so the BBB closed the complaint 2008_09_26. We also had to waitand save up money to actually do the engine replacement ourselves a second timein our own garage. We finally did find a company in TX that soldus an excellent working engine and we finally did get the van working this lastSeptember... The great company in TX is Grand Prairie Auto & Truck Parts or Dakota Auto Parts... Http://www.dakotaautoparts. ComJoe Rodriquez at Grand Prairie Auto & Truck Parts was so honest and treated us like family. They could tell Iwas burned and would call me back repeatedly for monthsattempting to get me to purchase one of their used engines. I kept telling them I had to wait. They gave me references to call. I called them andthey gave me assurance that the engines that came from this second TX companywere working engines and these references would for sure dobusiness with the second TX company again. I remember one of the references was a mechanic who was responsible fora shuttle company thatuses Sprinters to transport people to the airport... He said that this second TXcompany's word was good..."the engines they send are just asthey describe them." I stillcontinued to wait. Then after the 2ndsecond TX company gave me a youtube video of the compression test on the engine and a lifetimewarranty in writing... I finally took the risk and bought their engine. Then one year and 3 months later2009_12_03 someone named Kirt Koeller who described himself as "General Manager" responded to the BBB saying "We refunded the money of the engine as the law requires." This is an out right lie. We never received any refund. We attempted to reverse the charges on our cc but Auto Sports Unlimited refused to agree to have the cc charge reversed. Why all of asudden did AutoSportsUnlimited get concerned about their C - rating with theBBB and Kirt Koeller say this..."THE YEAR WAS BECAUSE I HAD NO CLUETHIS HAD WENT ON IN THE FIRST PLACE."... The BBB gave 3 clues... Emailnotice to AutoSportsUnlimited 2009_08_25, emailreminder to AutoSportsUnlimited 2009_09_22, and email inform toAutoSportsUnlimited 2009_09_26. Grand Prairie Auto & Truck Parts in TX treated us like this... Weactually bought the engine from them for 3500 and we payed 1000 for thelifetime warranty. OK so we spent more with the Grand Prairie Auto & Truck Parts in TX but they sent us a beautifulengine... It fired upright away and ran wonderfully... Until the harmonic balancer with two pulleywheels that I transfered from our AutoSportsUnlimited boat anchor of an engine to the beautifully working engine walked its way off the end of thecrank shaft... We then called the Grand Prairie Auto & Truck Parts and they replacedthe engine even though it was what I believe was my fault on how that harmonicbalancer was placed on their engine... They said thatthey could not prove that and that harmonic balancers have broken off of otherSprinter engines because of fautly woodruff keys so theygave us the benefit of the doubt and sent us a second engine... We returnedtheir beautiful engine with a messed up harmonic balancer... Theysent us another fire up the first time it was tried engine with a harmonicbalancer with two wheels on it that they installed... All wehad to do was buy the harmonic balancer part and pay for shipping an engineboth directions... That is why I said they treated us better thanfamily! Paying a little more for arelationship with an establishment of integrity was WAY WORTH IT compared toloosing $7000 compared to dealingwith an AutoSportUnlimited establishment that hides behind the fine print afterwhat in my opinion is an obvious act of defrauding. AVOID Auto Sports Unlimited like the plague!!!
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