Letter to the Editor: March 2009

Repowering Your Engine May Be a Key to Financial Happiness

Dear Editor,

In today’s economy most people realize they need to reduce expenses.  A great way to save significant money is to keep and maintain your current vehicle.  Replacing your worn out engine with a remanufactured or rebuilt engine rather than buying a new or used car may be an excellent way for you to cut costs and realize long-term savings.
 
When a car or truck suffers major engine damage, often the first reaction is to buy a new or used vehicle, but the cost to repower an engine is a drop in the bucket compared to the higher insurance rates and monthly loan payments that come with a new car.  The bottom line is that a repowered engine makes a vehicle more dependable, more fuel efficient, less polluting and more valuable.

With engine repowering, a vehicle’s engine or an identical one from another like-vehicle is completely disassembled, cleaned, machined and remanufactured or rebuilt.  Unlike used or junk yard engines with an unknown performance and maintenance history, repowered engines are dependable, reliable and backed by excellent warranty programs.

In addition to its financial benefits, engine repowering also saves the tremendous amount of energy used in processing discarded engines and vehicles.  It also saves an incredible amount of raw materials that would have been used in building a new engine.
To learn more about the benefits of installing a remanufactured or rebuilt engine, visit the Engine Repower Council’s Web site at www.enginerepower.org. 

Steve Rich
Chairman
Engine Repower Council
816-842-1887