From: Tony Brett on
Hi all,

I decided not to go the knackered-car-and-swap-engines route and am now
looking at recon engines. I have had a quote from Heathrow Engines
(reconditioned-engines.co.uk)for a new engine including fitting for �795
plus VAT. This is apparently a brand new engine, not a recon or
remanufactured model.

Questions:

Does anyone have any experience of this company?
Does the quote seems reasonable?

Tony

From: Tony Brett on
Tony Brett wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I decided not to go the knackered-car-and-swap-engines route and am now
> looking at recon engines.

Sorry I should have added: June 1998 built Fiesta Ghia 5dr hatch
(registered Sept 1998 hence S reg). Petrol, Manual Transmission.

Tony
From: David R on
"Tony Brett" <tony.brett(a)oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:eqqapb$baj$1(a)frank-exchange-of-views.oucs.ox.ac.uk...
> Hi all,
>
> I decided not to go the knackered-car-and-swap-engines route and am now
> looking at recon engines. I have had a quote from Heathrow Engines
> (reconditioned-engines.co.uk)for a new engine including fitting for �795
> plus VAT. This is apparently a brand new engine, not a recon or
> remanufactured model.
>
> Questions:
>
> Does anyone have any experience of this company?
> Does the quote seems reasonable?

As the car is worth a fraction more than that, I would just get a new car.
Okay, it's a Ghia, but really, that wooden dash is...ah hideous ;)

I don't know if I'd be too keen on a supposedly 'new' engine. It can't be
brand new surely?


From: Chris Whelan on
Tony Brett wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I decided not to go the knackered-car-and-swap-engines route and am now
> looking at recon engines. I have had a quote from Heathrow Engines
> (reconditioned-engines.co.uk)for a new engine including fitting for £795
> plus VAT. This is apparently a brand new engine, not a recon or
> remanufactured model.
>
> Questions:
>
> Does anyone have any experience of this company?
> Does the quote seems reasonable?
>
> Tony

My only experience of Heathrow Engines was the time a gave a work colleague
a lift to pick up his car from there after a reconditioned engine had been
fitted. The vehicle was sitting outside their premises ticking over; there
was a "clonk", then something rolled along the ground past our feet,
quickly followed by a rapidly growing pool of engine oil.

The oil filter had only been partially screwed on, and had fallen off!

It didn't inspire confidence, and later anecdotal comments have lead me to
believe they are not a Company I would ever use.

YMMV!

Chris

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From: SteveH on
Tony Brett <tony.brett(a)oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I decided not to go the knackered-car-and-swap-engines route and am now
> looking at recon engines. I have had a quote from Heathrow Engines
> (reconditioned-engines.co.uk)for a new engine including fitting for �795
> plus VAT. This is apparently a brand new engine, not a recon or
> remanufactured model.
>
> Questions:
>
> Does anyone have any experience of this company?

No, but they sound like the kind of 'recon engine' cowboys you find on
most run-down industrial estates in most towns.

> Does the quote seems reasonable?

Sounds too cheap for a properly reconditioned engine and too expensive
for a used one that has just been sprayed with gunk and hosed off.

Given that the car is only worth about 800 quid anyway, I'd flog the car
on ebay and buy another.

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