If you like the car and can get a new dealer approved engine by dealer approved mechanics under warranty it is awesome. Having a receipt of a full engine replacement is valuable.

If they try to pull bull**** and say it isn't under warranty, I would think that is lawyer time. Have you googled that defect and Lawyers in your area?

I mean you have an impeccable position imo. Seems like a net positive.

Well I didn't include that my car started breaking down in the middle of the lyft ride where the dumb hungover bitchy chick sent me to san juan capistrano, and didn't realize it til we were nearly there and started bitching at ME (I even confirmed the address before we left) for it and berated me for most of the hour ride and said she wanted a refund, which I told her I couldn't do. She was going to Lake forest or something and put in the wrong address.

I did get a pimped out Ford expo so that's good. But yea I was exaggerating I've had far worse days.

If I get a brand new engine I could be excited about that. if it's the same kind of engine I'm not so stoked. he said "motor" so that doesn't necessarily mean a totally new engine. I'm likely in this car for the next 5 years, I don't want future maintenance issues.

There's a class action going on against Hyundai for the recall issue. Lots of the problems owners have had happened at 80k+ miles, I have the lowest mileage I've seen with this problem so I hope they can't try to point to poor maintenance or something, like what car dies at 46k miles? 4 year old car with 46k miles is barely driven. It's ridiculous. Lots of new cars you barely change the oil in the first 36k miles.

What have they told you are next steps?

What's different between an engine and a motor?

Jmakin,

My initial feeling from your post is that you are about to drop a valve.
Pop the hood with it running and listen for a "tat tat tat tat" sound

And, a motor is not an engine
If the guy really said, "you need a new motor", do not go back there

according to this

http://engineering.mit.edu/ask/what%...tor-and-engine

nothing, they mean the same thing now

jmakin,

Dealerships are AIDS for starters. Any reputable, how ever hard they are to find, mechanic could have saved you all this trouble. Dealerships literally want your **** to **** up like this. Not even exaggerating. They are evil incarnate.

That being said, I hope you get a new motor/engine.

well said

motor and engine are synonyms

She is the head of Literature---not an Engineer. Wasn't the article, "ask an engineer"

Why don't you ask 10 engineers if they consider motor and engine to be interchangeable.
You will get 10 "no" responses.

Grunch , but dealers are fine for warranty work. They are just as happy to screw over the manufacturer as the customer.

"motor" is the word for engine in Spanish. Jmakin lives in a heavily Hispanic area, so it's conceivable that the mechanic uses some sort of spanglish.

mo·tor
A machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts.

en·gine
A machine with moving parts that converts power into motion.

Thomas the Tank Motor.

She was a fast machine,
She kept her motor clean.

jmakin, you should be fine. The fact that you kept up on the paperwork will serve you well. If they give you any grief just tell them you are going straight to the media, it works for me. GL

If you do even one oil change at a non-approved facility they can turn around and void the warranty. My oil changes are only 20 bucks there. That's pretty much all i've needed to do so far on the car.

I don't like going there because even the simplest thing takes 2 hours but i never wanted to give them any reason to void my warranty and now i'm glad i did that. I'll hear today or tomorrow what they want to do.

A motor is a form of engine.

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Also, in honor of this semantics debate, we're coming up on the 10-year anniversary of

He didnt take his car to an engineer, he took it to a mechanic

Lol *TT*, whatever became of that guy?

he was working for some new website , i know he still visits on here. He wasn't the worst guy ever in person he atleast made me and NT! laugh.

On the topic of cars i actually just purchased a new on Monday
(2016 Jeep Wrangler Willys in Rhino Grey)
This is my first new car ever ( and first car from a lot in 16 years)
Ill post pictures when i pick it up next week but it basically looks like this one

My first new car ever was a 1997 Jeep Wrangler. I loved driving that car.