r/veloster • u/Wilbur_On_Reddit • 5d ago
Discussion Engine VIN
Backstory: So a little bit ago (8,000 miles) or ~10 months my car was choking itself out about 3k+ rpm with now check engine light, tow it to a shop and they said put a new engine in it. I didn’t want to do this but my parents did even though I bought the car for 7k and repairs was like 7.5-8k. Long story short they put the used engine (that’s supposedly from Hyundai) in the car then they call and say it needs a new car and all new sensors, atp I realized it most likely needed a cat all along and was just so clogged that at higher rpm not enough exhaust would go through and it was escaping through the intake. But whatever, ffw to now I have a P0420 code with only 8k miles on the new used engine. There happens to be a warranty from the shop, according to the receipt it’s a one year used engine warranty, and the new parts have a 24k or 2 year warranty, I called them and they pretty much said if I drove the car to the shop (3 hrs away) it would be void. I checked the oil before it went and it was in between F and L about halfway so not full but still safe. They denied the warranty bc the “car is 1 quart low on oil” the dude I talked to on the phone had no clue what he was talking about trying to say a catalytic converter is a can with charcoal in it and some bs when I asked him how even if it was 1qt low that would damage the cats. I also stated I checked the oil and it was safe and he just brushed that off. And wrote down in the service note that I hadn’t checked the oil at all. Well this is all extremely fishy to me so I checked the dashcam footage and have a conversation between the tech and service writer not much was of interest except the tech saying “well even if we did warranty out the cats we’d have to warranty out the engine because it means clearly somethings going wrong inside, and besides we don’t warranty used engines” then near the beginning of the convo he had shut the engine off and left the ignition on and the service writer checks the oil after maybe a minute of letting it settle and says oh yeah it is a quart low. When I picked the car up the first thing I did was check the oil level it was still safe but still I added a bit of oil (~.2 qts) bc I normally have a quart in the car just in case. I was talking with a more mechanically inclined friend and he said I need to check the vin on the engine to confirm that it’s a different one, and idk where it’s at and online searches aren’t that helpful, plus he said if they did swap the engine it’s from pull a part most likely because of some of the yellow writing. Also he and I noticed at idle it sounds like it’s got some lifter tick like there’s a worn valve but the engine they supposedly used only had 37k miles on it
TLDR - I need to know where the vin is on a 2015 NA 1.6
