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Originally Posted by upallnight
Hindsight is always 20:20. If I bought a used engine, I would have checked the engine compression the day after the engine arrived. Spinning the engine on the starter would have expelled the water and then that would have been the time to bring up the problem with the engine with the seller.
Unfortunately due to family and other commitments he didn't realize there was a problem until after the 30 days warranty had passed. The seller could come back with perhaps the buyer stored the engine outside and water got into the engine because of the storage. Even if the seller was willing to take back the engine, the shipping cost will still be the responsibility of the buyer, and most places have a restocking fee for return items.
The contract between the seller and buyer was for a 30 days warranty on the engine. The warranty period starts the day it was delivered to the buyer. You do not get to rewrite the contract just because you were too busy to work on the car and get the engine installed.
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This is not a warranty issue. Even if it were in the 30 day window this would not be a covered issue because water in the engine is not a defect.
Assuming the seller is being honest in his post (i.e. the water in the engine is not of his doing...the amount of water damage I see suggests the water was in the engine for quite some time) then the seller sold him an engine which is not fit for the intended purpose. Unless the seller sold it with the express disclaimer that it was non-functioning they ripped him off. Period.
We don't have the terms of the sale but it's my opinion someone doesn't pay $3,500 for a non-functioning engine. Perhaps in this case the OP did however I would bet against that. If the OP paid by CC then he should immediately contact the CC company and have the charges reversed.