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Originally Posted by Tobra
They have a duty to disclose they are selling a new car with a rebuilt engine, even if it is factory rebuilt. If they get sued by someone in Texas over this, Deceptive Trade Practice statute would apply and they very likely would be shelling out $45K on a $15K rebuild.
Failure rate is not the issue. |
Of course. But "rebuilt" indicates it was in service, accumulated some miles or hours on it, and was subsequently "rebuilt". Internal to the manufacturing process, prior to the sale of the unit, they can take it apart and put it back together as many times as they want, using whatever components they want. Not just motors or car components, either - any manufactured item. Cell phones, refrigerators, airplanes, whatever - until the manufacturer presents it as "finished" to their satisfaction, they can do whatever the hell they want with it.
Granted, some industries have very, very strict record keeping and conformance requirements that have been put in place by the manufacturers as a means to ensure quality and conformity, and many have regulatory agencies that have likewise put their own record keeping and quality assurance procedures in place. Even in the strictest such environment (and I worked for 37 years in one of the very strictest, most regulated industries extant), nothing that has not left the factory as "complete" and "ready for delivery" would ever qualify as "remanufactured", no matter how many times we took it apart, reworked it, replaced components, and reassembled it prior to declaring it as good to go.
So, yeah - if Porsche were installing once delivered, used but rebuilt motors into new cars (extracted from totaled cars, test mules with some miles on them, or what have you), they would need to disclose that. That is not what they are doing.