Engine replacement

[Bounce]

Need a new engine in a ford transit connect van does anyone have any recommendations on who to use?

van is located in the Essex area.

ford dealership have quoted £5.5k for a new engine

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Random breaker thats closest to you in all fairness.
Youll also need a well respected local garage as of anything goes wrong the garage will blame the supplier and the supplier will blame the garage.

I reckon youd be able to half that cost tbh

How old is the van btw?

 

[Armageus]

Pumaspeed have a lot of experience with Ford engine replacements, so might be worth a shout if you wanted someone well known

 

[Tinders]

Whats actually wrong with the engine. Avoid dealers at all costs, they generally charge you a bomb, and in my experience they arent all that good at the difficult stuff.

Theres plenty of engine specialists nowadays ford engines should be 10 a penny!

 

[NVP]

Check ebay for the engine. I found a place down London way who replaced my 7 series engine for 1.5k all in after quotes of 9k from BMW and 5k(iirc) from an indy.

 

[Amos91]

Need a new engine in a ford transit connect van does anyone have any recommendations on who to use?

van is located in the Essex area.

ford dealership have quoted £5.5k for a new engine

Phoenix Motor Engineering in Romford - they pretty much solely work on Ford diesel engines.

 

[Scania]

Check ebay for the engine. I found a place down London way who replaced my 7 series engine for 1.5k all in after quotes of 9k from BMW and 5k(iirc) from an indy.

Absolutely this, I have a mate with an old e38 that snapped its timing chain, about £4k from BMW quoted, he got a recon 4.4 V8 for just shy of £1k from eBay, £700 to remove the old one and fit new,the car now runs beautifully.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Absolutely this, I have a mate with an old e38 that snapped its timing chain, about £4k from BMW quoted, he got a recon 4.4 V8 for just shy of £1k from eBay, £700 to remove the old one and fit new,the car now runs beautifully.

Shocked BMW would work on an old E38, but 4k to supply, fit and warrant a new V8 engine, total bargain quite frankly.

 

[Scania]

Shocked BMW would work on an old E38, but 4k to supply, fit and warrant a new V8 engine, total bargain quite frankly.

Asked him last night, the £4K (£4300 +VAT) was just for supply of the engine, fitting on top!

As for working on an old e38, they were more than happy to quote to fix the self levelling suspension on my old e38, nigh on £2k iirc per side (!) and they were happy to service it - which indeed they did - before it broke spectacularly…

I think you have to go back to the e23 era 7 to get BMW to not want to touch it….