Originally posted by Big Jim: I hope that I'm not rubbing salt in a wound, but my experience with wrecking yards is that almost always they try to say that an engine is one year newer than it really is.
Or the mileage is off too make the engine look better. I CarFaxed the Escape I pulled mine from. The last mileage that was reported to the DMV a few months prior was 36K.
Suprisingly, the Escape had a clean CarFax. Strange considering it was totalled.
