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Originally Posted by leon
And it is only going to get worse, the days of repairing, pulling down engines and chucking in a set of rings and bearing are gone.
these days if your car engine blows a head gasket they put in a new motor.
Leon
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Not wrong Leon. Manufacturers do not build engines with rebuild in mind anymore, they want you to buy a whole new car. Mercedes engines are a great example, the head assemblies are only available as entire units, because they use adhesives to secure them, and the blocks are too thin to rebore or in the case of diesels they no longer use wet liners to save money on production cost by building out rebuild options.
My 2007 Jeep Cherokee has a wonderful, fully rebuildable VM CRD engine and i am keeping it forever. Buy smart.