EnginesOD anyone used them?

AS ABOVE

Ref this thread
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

My engine is dead so I am putting a bare engine in.

I have found one on here and paid a deposit but after doing so I have read nothing but bad reviews.

I have called them as I have not received an emailed receipt and all they say is they can't speak to you as it's a new enquiries line only.

I am slightly concerned now.....

Sorry to say it, but their terms of business here https://www.enginesod.com/terms-of-business/ tell you everything you need to know about them.

Started the paypal refund process.

I will call my credit card company now.

Written by an illiterate Neanderthal moron.

This part of the trade does seem to have its share of shysters and con artists, unfortunately.

If you paid the deposit on a credit card, talk to your provider. Maybe Section 75 will help you here (as long as the engine was between £100 and £30,000)

EnginesOD stands for engines on demand . They have all options weve required (30 engines or so) with safe payment options unlike some out there

Not much has changed then, I had a recon engine fitted to my MK3 Escort back in 1995. Wasn't there a certain location (Watford springs to mind) where all these engine recon businesses were located?

With mine I was driving down the motorway and I could hear what sounded like big stones hitting the underside of the car. When I got off the motorway it got harder and harder to pull away and it was making a horrible noise. I managed to nurse it home and got my dad to look at it, turns out half of the bolts holding the gear box to the engine had fallen out and the rest were loose and the gearbox was separating from the engine.

Absolutely crap engine, I think they used to just get them out of scrappers, steam clean them and stick them in claiming them were reconditioned.

In general I would say it's okay to buy an engine or other car parts from the breakers but if you're buying a 'rebuilt' engine for £200 you'd be a fool to assume it has really been rebuilt. The whole thing is a huge balancing act taking all things into account such as how bad was the failure of your original engine for instance. In some cases it might make more sense to have your original engine fixed if all second-hand engines are expensive for that model.

The only rebuilt engines you can really trust are the ones you've had rebuilt yourself by a trusted engine builder. Even then there can be problems as not every rebuilt engine is an unmitigated success. The failure rate is surprisingly high.

What I would never do is buy an expensive engine from one of these shady reconditioning outfits. If the engine is a higher price than the others available but claims to have come from a 15,000 mile car or has been fully reconditioned etc... best not to trust those attractive sounding attributes and assume it is as good as any other breaker engine.

Stick to the cheaper end of the market, do your own health checks when the engine arrives. Fix any problems you can find. It is possible to do a compression test on an engine before fitting and a compression test will tell you a lot about the condition of the engine as a starting point.