Need opinion please

[SHobbs]

Daughter has a 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse 3. OL V6. Long story short she ingested water into the engine. Four of six cylinders had water in them, those piston rods are toast. Water was up to the floorboards.



Cars at the shop getting fixed, here's the thing. Insurance company had the dealership install a used motor from and automatic without even telling me, he did tell me they were looking at doing this but, never told me for sure. I am being told now that the clutch is worn and needs replaced and the insurance won't cover that but, they did replace the slave cylinder and throw out bearing. Also water poured out the alternator once the car was taken out the water.



Here's my questions folks

Can it be done, puttin an auto in a manual like this they spent a day and a half swapping all the wiring from one to another?

Am I right in trying to get them to replace the clutch as well, what does water do to clutch disks? Afterall they have already done the slave cyinder and throwout.

Being that water flooded the alternator it needs to be replaced as well, right?

How the A/C compressor, it was under water as well?



Thanks folks, Scott

 

[BILLVO]

sounds like it should have been totaled out instead. I would not worry about the alt and ac comp unless they act up in the future or unless it was salt water. Your problems are just about to start. The ins co should pay for a completely new wiring harness swap to prevent a massive wiring corrosion headache which will cause a lot of eratic and hard to diagnose problems. My opinion would be to sell it.

 

[WDixon27]

any belt driven accessory's and tensioners that got wet will most likely start grinding as the bearings go out in the next few weeks/months i don't know about mitsubish's as to if anything changes from slushbox to stick on the engine like the crank being able to accept a pilot bearing, the bmws and volvos i work on daily are interchangeable with no drama, even swapped a few over to stick, a clutch can handle getting wet if it gets a chance to dry and gets put back into use before rust builds up, if you are worried about it spring for a disc and pressure plate as the labor is taken care of now while it's out, it'll cost more to do it later, the ac compressor can handle getting wet but the pulley bearing will most likely die, unfortunately a compressor clutch usually costs about as much as another compressor unless you can score one at a u-pull it yard, and then it usually takes some skill/tools to change

 

[JApol]

I'm making sure I'm reading this right. The car is originally a stick and they are trying to put in an auto. But they still replaced the master cylander and throwout bearing? They are also trying to stick you with the clutch repair?

 

[SHobbs]

JApol,



Yes sir the car is a stick the engine they are putting in came from an auto. They had to swap all the electronics from one to the other. Made a few calls yesterday and they will replace the plate and disk. I told them how crazy I thought it was to replace the slave cylinder and throw out but not the rest. They said the throw out was damaged due to the water so why not replace the whole thing which they are doing. I get a 12 month warranty on the engine, I told them everything under the hood will be warrantied so I will not be on my own if something fails later due to the water.



Apparently when a car is totalled out, if the engine is still in good shape they are getting sold and used as replacements. I don't agree with this due to the fact that you don't know how that engine was treated. I called about a short block to see what kind of price that would be and I was shocked. A Mitsubishi 3. 0L V6 short block runs $4000, what the heck is in these engines to cost so much?



Should get the car back by Thursday, it will be gone long before the 12 months is up.



Thanks for the responses, I appreciate it

Scott

 

[AMink]

I am confused, too, to why they would have to replace the throwout. Autos don't use a throwout, do they?

 

[JFlagg]

I always thought the eclipse's looked like submarines, especially if they had the arched wing on the back, guess someone else thought so too:-laf

 

[SHobbs]

I am confused, too, to why they would have to replace the throwout. Autos don't use a throwout, do they?

Daughters car is a stick, the engine that is replacing the one she blew up came from a car with an auto in it.

 

[AMink]

I got it. I read it as a engine and transmission swap. After re-re-reading, I understand. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[rbattelle]

What insurance company is paying for this? I want to make sure I stay away from them. Can't believe they wouldn't total it out. I agree with Billvo - cars that have been seriously drenched are never quite "right" again.

Ryan