2013 Prius, shop says head gasket is blown, only wants to swap engine with a used engine from Japan. Doesn’t want to replace head gasket? Is that a thing now? I’m older but changing a head gasket wasn’t a big deal in my day. Thoughts? Thanks

  • Crabstick65@alien.topB
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    10 months ago

    I work in a repair shop and we will do head gaskets, a lot of others won’t though because liability, in some rare cases the repair fails, we have had a few fail, and it turns out the issue is a hidden crack or something, of course then the customer is angry and it all goes sour because we don’t have xray vision and sending out for crack and pressure testing is expensive.

    This is why they don’t want to get involved, selling an engine with a warranty protects them.