Raymr

How many miles are on the motor?

casio

very awkward scenario. i understand and i'm glad its on your conscious, shows youre a good person which is more than i could say for a few commenting here. you're someone i'd like to buy parts from, not someone with a "well its outta my hands and into yours so its your problem" attitude. i respect that.
as for blaming EVERYTHING on the fast and the furious; come on, yall, get over it. not every kid getting into cars has a shrine to that movie. its dumb to say that because a kid bought a standard rx7 that he was playing fast and the furious. its a guess out of left field. you know what else is a guess out of left field? the kid driving the car and losing a seal at no fault of his own. but seems everyone likes to be a dick and instantly say whoever was being stupid. funny, though, there's people here saying this has happened to them. i lost a seal in an n/a while cranking. i knew compression was going, but i continued to drive it. then one day on startup it lost a seal (and a housing and rotor).

personally, i'd take the car back. as much as it pains you to hear that, i'm sure its also a relief. seems you don't wanna be a guy that sold a car at a "good running" price when it popped shortly after. at the same time, i'd drill him with questions as to what he was doing or what happened. i know there's rev limiters (my s5 has one anyways), but i've never gone 5th to 2nd or anything similar. ask him a bunch of questions and if his story is straight, maybe take the car and sell for a little less to someone who wants a blown t2 or fix it (which will probably cost you more in the end).

eViLRotor

iTrader: (2)

So how long before you don't take the car back?

6 hours? 1 day? 1 week?

What kind of timeframe is there between being a nice guy, and being able to sell a car as is. I respect him for taking the car back, but he certainly doesn't have to, nor should he be expected to.

xtremespd

pay him back everything minus $1500 for a rebuild

casio

if youre directly asking me, i dont have an answer. its a 'play it by ear' type of thing. it all depends. had he said "i really dont know what condition the motor is in, all i know is its been driving. nonetheless, it could go out in 1 mile or 100,000 for all i know" then the situation would change. what is said/implied has a lot to do with it. there's no single answer. also, who you sell it to. if its a kid who can barely afford a car, much less having an engine rebuilt, i wouldnt expect that person to take a $1500 loss after driving the car i sold them for less than an hour. chances may be that the kid cant have it rebuilt and has to sell it.
is it weird that the engine let go so shortly after? of course, but that doesnt mean anything. like i said, i wouldnt give in too easily, but if the buyer has a good reason and explanation, than hopefully i would be willing to take the car back. also, i wouldn't want to give a warranty for an hour or a month because that would be a timeframe that i would be legally bound to keep where that person could dog the car however much they wanted. like i said, play it by ear. i can't give solid numbers. no two situations are alike.

eriksseven

iTrader: (6)

I guess there are several options:

You give him a full refund for a blown motor and take back your old car...
You give him a partial refund and take back the car...
You give him a smaller refund (maybe to pay for a fix) and he keeps the car...
Or you give him no refund and he keeps the car as is...

I'd probably decide between the middle two. What a sticky situation... I'm sure we can all sympathize with both sides of the deal. Think about this though; my first day of driving a stick was pretty much aweful. I COULDN'T make it up the slightest incline without killing it. I burned the clutch when I shifted. The car bucked going from 1st to 2nd. I can just imagine this dude driving his new car with good intentions, not ripping on it, carefully trying to put the car into the right gear... Do you know how easy it is for a n00b to accidentally put it into the wrong gear? I allowed a friend to drive my TII one night after he bugged me for a few minutes, saying he's never driven a sports car. I asked him if he'd driven a stick and he said he'd driven his old girlfriends car a couple times and his 'project Jeep' was a stick, soo... Anyways I couldn't say no without seeming like a rod and that I didn't trust him. So I told him to take it easy. He made it out of his cul-de-sac bucking a bit after shifting too soon into 2nd, but making it out to the main road OK. Anyways he slowly whines around the corner onto the main road and then guns it. It bogs down a little and lurches as it begins revving up from the unexpected full throttle. He shifts (grinding) into 2nd as I look on speechless from mortification. He then lets off the gas and trys to put it into 3rd. It's not going, he's pushing, then I hear an all too hideous whine AS HE PUTS IT INTO 1ST!!! Luckily (really) the car had lost some of it's speed while he was trying to jam it into 1st. But CRAP! it revved heinously high! I'll never let a n00b drive a finicky sports car like the Rex again.

Moral of the story: The guy probably mis-shifted and blew the motor... But maybe to find out; I assume the tranny would be damaged from doing this. This would be an obvious way to find out...

jhammons01

Casio, I like how you say two different things at the same time and yet still find a way to say others are being a "dick". First off Since I was one of the many that said "not responsible" Then I'll reply for me.

"If" I sell a car and it goes down the street, my responsibility for that car ends at that point and here is why. I have absolutly no control over the car at all. I can not tell the new buyer what to do with that car at all. Not when to drive it or when to park it, or when to take it to the shop, or how fast to drive, or when to shif, etc. Do you get it yet?? How can I be responsible for anything that happens after the moment the new buyer drives away????

I know one thing, different people are harder on mechanical things than other people. I know I can pamper a motor for a lot of miles, my brother on the other hand can't get anything out of a motor. What if this new buyer is one that can't get anything out of a motor like my bro'????? is everybody responsible for my brother blowing engines??? Do you want to step up to the plate??? As an example when my bro was working for a Mitsubishi dealership, they got in a new turbo 3000gt one of the first in the country, took it for a ride and missed a gear, blew something......you should've seen the techs from Japan climbing all over that car. Who was really responsible????? Mitsu or My Bro'???? according to you Mitsu should've givin my Bro a raise and pay for the new engine. but in reality (the real world) Mitsu FIRED my bro and fixed the car with his last paycheck