yup, only a few thousand in damage, so cost and risk of litigation would far outweigh the possiblity that you MAY win, verses wasting lots of time and money on a lawsuit and then risk not winning and having to pay to fix the car anyway (plus all your legal expenses and hurt pride)

 

Well he was right. That is a tone ring. It's hard to say what came first, the chicken or the egg. It would appear the tone ring came apart and did the other damage, but I for the life of me, I cannot imagine why something like a tone ring would fail. It would seem to me it would have to have been defective or had been struck by something, but what? I have not seen this engine inside myself to see how it is assembled, but generally tone rings are not stressed in anyway. They dont carry a "load" they should be able to spin to insane rpms without failure. This is bizarre. Even when a sensor inadvertantly makes contact with the ring, the ring usually will take the sensor out, but it, itself, will survive. Of course, they are making everything smaller and lighter and more fragile nowadays, so who knows......
I was explaining to another member here that on some ABS brake setups, the proper way to "set" the airgap is to push the prox sensor in 'till it actually hits the tone ring in the wheel/ brake drum/ rotor and leave it. the sensor face is plastic and thick enough that the teeth on the ring will properly clearance itself by chewing away some of the material. Of course, you have to know what your dealing with. On some, the airgap is non-adjustable (usually the case with the engine sensors), on others that are threaded (as in a speedo sensor), you turn the sensor in 'till it hits, then back off the sensor 90 degrees and lock it down.
Anyway, the damage has been done and that sucks man.

 

Yeah thanks Pressurecooker......and I am also pursuing Lemon Law I have had that many problems is less than a year b4 Stage 3. But once again I will let all of you know how that goes

 

And no matter what happens in the case....I do not have to pay my lawyer anything the dealership/manufacturer does....And you are correct it probably won't make it to court...But if we can settle out of court with both parties happy....mainly me....that would be great...i will keep you posted

 

I fixed the pictures for you, those links made me go crazy!! And I deleted the other posts for you as well. Makes for a much cleaner thread.

And damn thats some insanity....I just dont think the dealer knew what the hell happened so they explained it *** backwards to you.

 

That's the same part that broke on my Hemi. I had mine covered underwarranty. But I still think it was the aftermarket pulley I put on my truck that broke it. The mechanic told me its a manufacturing defect. Good luck, Brah...go with Jesus.