Check this out, thought someone might like this maybe - a very rare find I would guess. With new turbo, intercooler the lot! Brand new never used, straight out of Daihatsu And really the price is very good. http://www.marktplaats.nl/a/auto-on...da871b0d84f75c3056cc6db858f31&previousPage=lr http://www.handelshuisdeurne.nl/index.php/component/sdelixer-winkel?artid=595&tree=1
Thanks for the find, but anyone interested should ask the seller, whether the engine already had a test-run or ever was connected to water-cooling. A fellow Copen-owner in Germany also bought an engine from Carver, only to find out (when he needed it some time after the purchase), that all pipes and channels inside the engine block for water cooling were blocked by rust. Apparently Carver had the engine test-run with water-cooling connected but never bothered to empty the whole system completely afterwards. So this engine sat nicely in a garage for some years and rust built up to block all pipes and channels. Trying to get it all cleared did not work out and he had to scrap the whole engine block. :-(( Andreas
Well, that's what I was told. Couldn't see it for myself to judge but trust their words as all repairs were carried out by the "most trustworthy Copen specialists garage in Germany" Kiessetz & Schmidt in Wiesbaden Andreas
Carver Just surprised you ask? They bought the 660cc engines from Daihatsu and built them into their car/drivingmachine/whatever you call it. Highly appreciated by Copen owners for spare engines and turbos (and vice versa by Carver owners ). Andreas
Yes I know who that Carver firm is. I know nothing about Carver though, I don't know where they are or what they really do. But how do you know that advert is from Carver? I am not doubting that it is, just how do you know it is from Carver?
Touché! It's just a good guess as I have seen some other engines on offer from the insolvency assets of Carver in the Netherlands through other sellers. Andreas
Over here, all the Daihatsu dealers are closing down. All of their stock is being sold off. I have been sent lists from the main UK agents of there entire stock holding which was up for sale. I assumed it was coming from a liquidated Daihatsu dealer. Daihatsu are withdrawing from the entire European marketplace as you will already know. Not that I knew until now, but Carver went bust in 2009. I find it mad that you are so negative about the new engine for sale, yet it is based on an assumption of where the engine came from. And only from defensive questioning I find out it is all assumption.
OK then. I think we can settle for the main point of my first post: Check the engine before buying. Andreas
Scooty was just trying to warn buyers that a brand new engine is not always what it seems. A lot of us would buy it assuming that it would always be in perfect working order and have been stored correctly. He isn't being negative just letting us know of the pitfalls others have experienced.
