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Originally Posted by extrashaky
In a normal car, a new engine would be a good solution.
But this is not a normal car. It has the potential to become a collector's car in the future, in which a matching numbers engine would be worth money. Swapping out the engine in his car doesn't make him whole, because he won't be back where he started before their mistake. Potential future loss in value is not something that can be quantified, however, so it would be difficult to get them to agree to it. Even so, I would have that in the back of my mind throughout any negotiations and would still be pushing for some other solution.
And if they did do an engine swap, I would try to keep the original engine as well so that it could stay with the car and be rebuilt and reinstalled in the future should the matching numbers ever become an issue.
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Wishful thinking? This just another sub 30k dollar car from a non exotic company. It's also a full production car, its not like this is some kind of special car built in limited numbers. Also the remote possibility of an object becoming valuable in 20 years is not legal grounds for special compensation. What your talking about simply doesn't exist, right now its just another car on the road.
You are right though, it doesn't make him whole, it makes him BETTER than whole as he would now have a brand new engine, making the car MORE valuable than it was. Just ask an insurance company...when my WRX got totaled with 800 miles on a new motor they increased the value of my loss by $2500 because it had a new engine in it.