A new engine (back ordered for 2 months because this is a huge issue) and if you are sitting down it is a 35 hour job, $140.00 and hour ,yep talking almost 15 k usd and what they have to do is this, they have to take a brand new engine break it down get rid of the MDS lifters, and use Hellcat lifters because the Hell cats do not have MDS lifters , the 5.7,6.1, and 6.4 all have MDS (WHO the f%$# WANTS TO SAVE FUEL IN A MUSCLE CAR NOT ME!) IDIOTS ok still a bit huffy.... with this,so any way this gets worse, the car kelly blue book THE CAR is worth about 8 to 10 k,so needless to say I will not be going this route,and I told the shop to get it ready for me to just trade it in on another challenger,(NOT GOOD EITHER) but I called the stealer ship, and they would only give me 1k not running, and 7 k running, and of course the vulture salesman had no idea of the lifter issue, but when they found out that this engine was bad they just try to lease or sell me another car, well here is the problem, they have not fixed the problem,the new 2019,s will do the same thing,if I got a new one I would buy it and take it to this shop straight away and pitch the MDS immediately,yep tear down a new engine and put hell cat lifters and get rid of this disaster, thousands upon thousands of these cars are going down and people will be so up side down in value,there are 6 cars ahead of mine and 6 behind yes a dozen cars, alot of them are still making payments.
Ok so the shop found a used engine for 3800 bucks, and they will remove the mds,put it back in the car,and 7700.00 later I should be good, this is the cheapest way to get out from under this,and if I can get another 100k out of the car fine, if it starts acting up I will sell it out right cut my losses,and move on, this really sucks, enough for me to change brands
