My girlfriend wants a fun car to drive to work.... so we settled on 2011+ V6 stang with a manual. Not very easy to find around me. I found one at a dealer, it has about 50k miles on it, 6 speed manual, deep impact blue paint, premium package (leather and heated seats). Complete maintenance records, all look good, one owner car. It is at a Ford dealer and is listed right around $18 grand, so pretty fair price.
Here is the dilemma... when I went to see it they came out to sadly tell me the motor was knocking horribly. Long story short, the service manager just found out as they were getting it ready for me. They took it in on trade and said it was fine. They serviced the car (changed oil) and there are 12 miles on the car since oil change. So the manager is saying someone took it out and instead of driving it to the detailer, beat it to death and blew the motor. He seemed very frustrated. The sales woman called me back and said Ford is covering it under the powertrain warranty. They are putting in a brand new short block... Should i be looking at this as a steal of a deal with basically a "new engine"? I realize they will be reusing original heads. Should i be worried in any way about buying this car? If you think it is a good idea to buy the car and not to worry about new short block as potential future problems, should i also ask them to replace the clutch, slave cylinder, and throwout bearing since they will already have it apart? Parts for that will be pretty salty, a grand... kind of makes me want to just wait until it actually needs it.
I'm not seeing many issues with these engines online so i am assuming they are pretty reliable... it also makes me ponder what someone could have possibly done to the car to junk the motor like that!
Let me know what you guys think! Thanks!
Here is the dilemma... when I went to see it they came out to sadly tell me the motor was knocking horribly. Long story short, the service manager just found out as they were getting it ready for me. They took it in on trade and said it was fine. They serviced the car (changed oil) and there are 12 miles on the car since oil change. So the manager is saying someone took it out and instead of driving it to the detailer, beat it to death and blew the motor. He seemed very frustrated. The sales woman called me back and said Ford is covering it under the powertrain warranty. They are putting in a brand new short block... Should i be looking at this as a steal of a deal with basically a "new engine"? I realize they will be reusing original heads. Should i be worried in any way about buying this car? If you think it is a good idea to buy the car and not to worry about new short block as potential future problems, should i also ask them to replace the clutch, slave cylinder, and throwout bearing since they will already have it apart? Parts for that will be pretty salty, a grand... kind of makes me want to just wait until it actually needs it.
I'm not seeing many issues with these engines online so i am assuming they are pretty reliable... it also makes me ponder what someone could have possibly done to the car to junk the motor like that!
Let me know what you guys think! Thanks!