Hi guys, I'm looking at a ZR1 that seems really cheap.. The curent Owner says the previous owner said the engine was replaced under warrnaty or a recall..This apparently happened not too long into the cars life. Does anyone know anything of this. Any help is appreciated.. Thanks
If something went wrong with the engine, you had the option under warranty for the whole engine to be replaced, or wait while yours was repaired back at Mercury Marine. I have yet to come across a car that had the whole engine changed.
FoolCrzy,
I was reading your post and I thought I would help out by running the carfax for you. It does show a "Not Actual Mileage" title issued. I forwarded the results to your aol email acct.
Baddmann and 96Grandsport,
Thanks for the effort, I have the carfax also. I have heard that if an engine is replaced under warranty, under certain circumstances, They will roll the odometer to zero. The point when the "not actual Mileage" appears, the car has under 20,000 miles. The owner says there is a sticker on the door jamb that saysthe odometer was rolled back to zero and "by state law don't remove this sticker". I'm wondering if this is the case. Can a chevy dealer look this up??
Ron,
You might want to check up in the C5 for sale section and ask either Ken Fitcher or Karl Johanson or even Monica at Maxie Price and they might be able to tell you if it is true or not. Hope thats the case because it sounds like a good car.
Leo
I do know that some of the early 90's had the engines removed and replace due to the camshafts not being ground correctly and gm got all the cars with these problems before they made it to the public.(reference "The heart of the beast")
But this paricular car is ScottyD's and im sure the car is fine id jump on that one after a test drive and a good walk around, seems like a good deal to me.
Hi all!
I bought my 95 ZR1 about 2 years ago from a dealer.
I also got a carfax report, clear.
I then got the GM warranty history which reported that the
engine was totally replaced at ~25,000 miles, but not why.
I found out where the swap was done (another chevy dealer)
but they wouldn't tell why (customer confidentiality.)
Moral- engines were replaced, probably too complicated (or costly) for the
dealer to repair. Maybe liability issues. I was bummed at first,
but then figured that I just have a newer engine (Dunn heads?)
Yes there was a hold in early 90 for cam problems ( I heard there was a problem with one of the workers reving cold engines and damanging the cams) but don't believe that none ever made it out of the dealers I'm pretty sure we had one delivered to a customer out of state that may have had a cam problem and if that be the case I'm sure that car would have gotten a replacement engine, unless for some reason they wanted to wait for who knows how or oreder up a complete engine and swap it out. So I would not be suprised if it has a replacement engine also don't forget many dealers out there did not know what they were doing so they may have just replaced an engine for who knows what may not even have had a problem.
HEy eveyone sorry about the carfax showing no accutal miles I was a little mad about this my self when I found out about it .When I bought the car I never ran the car fax on it i wanted something fast so I bought It and loved it until I drove the c5 then I had to get one of them ,next step is to but a Zo6 in a few years .I do have a set of 90 ZR1 rims on its way if this changes anything let me know
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1990 zr1 Warranty engine replacement?????
