Selling a motor and the buy wants to write a contract. Opinions?

[phreshkid]

Well I sold a motor to a guy and I am dropping it off by his place tomorrow afternoon. The buyer wants to write up a contract stating that if anything is to go wrong after the first startup, whether it be rod knock or some weird noise, I am to refund him the money, no bs.

My problem with this is obvious in the fact that he can screw me over in more than one way where he walks away with the money back if there is some problem. There is no problems with this motor and is a perfectly good, strong running motor.

What do I stay away from in this contract? I essentially want a release of liability once the transaction has been done and not a contract that leaves me binded in the event of some stupid problem on the buyers side during installation or after installation for that matter.

I just don't want to be put in a position where I can be screwed over by him. Apparently, his buddy has the same motor and he just crashed his car, resulting in cylinder head damage. I don't want to have to deal with a problem a month from now.

Any suggestions as to what to agree to and not to agree to would be great.

Thank you.

[lolcantturn]

Tell him to fuck off.

[Rsully70sev]

Tell him to fuck off.

this...

and what kind of motor?

[Jafxod]

Its a motor, theres a million things he could do before he puts it in that would result in him turning this into a free motor from you

[Dj Buttchug]

yea fuck that. sold as is.

[tfritz]

personally I would tell him to fuck off. But if you dont want to do that, you could include in the contract that the motor MUST be 'professionally' installed in order to have any sort of warranty and such..

[Jean]

You haven't sold it yet lol. But yeah, if you aren't willing to do that, don't. Big shops can, since they have inventory and can take the risk if the engine is bad.

Example. I bought an m50vanos on ebay from one of the bmw recyclers in rancho as it was listed with low miles, when I picked it up I ran carfax and it came back with literally 2x as many miles. I brought it back and they of course wanted to give me another, I just took my money back and left.

Now, there is of course could be another thing to worry about if the buyer has no clue on what they are doing. The best you can do is maybe hook up a starter to it and do a compression test OR offer to take the pan off / valve cover off for inspection?

[LuckyHenriksen]

Just sell it AS-IS and go home happy

[StereoInstaller1]

Add $250 to the price and require a 20% restock fee

[urbancynic]

Too much at risk to go wrong. Don't do it. Wait for another buyer.

[Dermeister3]

Tell him if he wants a contract written up, to go get a lawyer to do it for him. There are so many things to cover, it's impossible to write a sound contract without someone versed in law.

Also like someone said, include in it that the engine must be professionally installed to claim the warranty, since he could sabotage it if he wanted to.

Or save time and tell him to fuck off.

[TurboJake]

three options.

One, don't sell it. It's a motor, and is sold as-is with 0 guarantee. This is the route I would take. Anyone requiring a contract for a motor obviously is in need of the motor. Tell them to go to hell, it's sold as is, and it's their responsibility once sold. If they don't like it they can take their business elsewhere.

Two, can only dropped off at a professionals location, and installed by said professional.

Three, can only be installed by them same day as delivery, with 100% supervision by yourself. As in the motor does not leave your sight until it's fine, and ALL is recorded on video. If the motor is not installed same day because of unforeseen circumstances, the guarantee is null and void.

If he has a contract saying "Any problem after start up", he has the legal ability to sue you when it dies, in a day, or in 50 years.

Selling a motor with a contract is iffy. I always record videos of an engine running prior to selling, and offer them that as the proof it runs well.

[e34john]

Don't sell to him, save yourself the headache.

Sounds like one of those guys who will find something to complain about.

[bernzpeed]

Advertise as SOLD AS IS

[Court M3]

Dude is this the S50 you were supposed to sell me? lol I'm been waiting on a reply for over a week now.