A year ago I bought my wife a Mazda CX-5 diesel and paid 10K for it. Now I found out that it has an engine defect that will be extremely expensive to repair, so the car is a write-off, at best I can get 2K back.
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Did you get it inspected before purchasing?
Yes. But to see the defect, one has to remove the underside of the engine which we didn’t do.
Then I think you’re in the wrong community. This belongs in ExtremelyAggravating
That sucks. I had something similar happen when I bought a car with a “new” engine that blew up on me after just 5000 kms. Out of curiousity, what’s the defect?
The engine doesn’t supply the oil to some of it’s parts properly, so parts like the turbo compressor went bad.
Engines can be replaced. Is that an option?
That might be the “extremely expensive” repair. On a 10k car it’s possible, though it might well be worth doing. Especially if owner or shop can source a good engine cheaply. But it’s not going to be a small amount of work.
Selling the rest somewhere for repair or parts and cutting your losses is a good looking option, though that’s not cheap either.
A car is often a bad investment.
