Finding a good used engine with low mileage is an art form. Many factors equate into choosing a reliable affordable engine supplier. The point is not all used engines are the same. It is not sensible to arbitrarily buy a used engine without doing your research first.
Before you develop an engine replacement strategy, it is very helpful to contact a qualified engine supply source such as GotEngines,com. I’m quite familiar with them and know some of the techniques they use to outperform the other engine suppliers. One of the things that I would consider important is not really a technique, but a quality. They are a nationwide engine source. Why is this important?
Companies that are national instead of local have the ability to deal with more sources therefore giving them more choices to serve you with. Another quality is that being a nationally available company, you have the option of an extended nationwide guarantee. It seems like a no-brainer to me. Essentially, if you pay a competent shop to install your engine properly, then if you were to have a warranty problem, the warranty company will cover a defective engine in full, including the labor. Pretty nice.
Essentially if the shop does a good job and checks the radiator-cooling system, engine mounts and all related components so as to eliminate a reason for re-failure, you are set up for a long successful relationship with your fresh engine. A long relationship means you have to maintain your new engine accordingly and regularly.
Good low mileage used engines usually come from a car with low mileage that was wrecked bad enough to be called a total. What that means is that the car may be totaled, but there are many good used parts to sell to people who like quality used parts they can count on. It takes a lot of footwork and talking to find the best sources on a national basis.
With the advent of Car Max and other services that can check the history of a car it is a viable tool for GotEngines.com to use as a reference to check the history of the car and engine. You don’t want an engine that came out of a flooded car, or an engine that needed a bunch of warranty work to make it run properly. They don’t think it is a joke.
In the case of a nationally formed company you don’t have a middle-man, so you save some money by not having to pay a middle-man. In fact, the middle-man companies buy from GotEngines.com. The other beauty is that all of the footwork and homework is already done for you and all of these engines are pre-tested on an engine dynamometer to insure they run perfectly right off the bat. Thus making it an easy process to call 1-941-269-8284 and talk to an expert that will listen to you in depth and help develop the strategy that fits you bill.
Provoking you to think like this is why we have our GotEngines.com blog. We want all of your engine decisions to be good ones. It sure saves a lot of wasted time and frustration not having to deal with a crummy troublesome used engine that came from who knows where.