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Old 03-22-2015, 08:49 PM   #268 (permalink)
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Jasper is 3 years 100k miles on engines and transmissions and includes labor. Longer miles than almost every OEM. Your hybrid has numerous other components that conventional vehicles do not have to wear out or break.

Does the internet help finding parts for very rare cars? Absolutely. It also means those who have the parts charge more for them due to increased demand. Read the fineprint on used electrical part purchases very very carefuly and look out for things like, no returns, or instore credit only.

As far as swapping out another engine in a shell, good luck with extinguishing the CEL and battery failure lights. Around here they
do not do emissions testing but if either of those lights is totally inop or continuously illuminated then it's a failed inspection.

I remember one Z car from over 30 years ago that was rejected when the Chevy V8 was installed without the factory air injection system and air pump. Seen a pickup driver ticketed by a trooper for illegal dual exhausts added after manufacture.


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