[tfolk88]

Nothing like getting your hopes up, signing your life away on $97,000 in payments over 5 years, falling in love with your car and hearing this, anyone got a rough idea how long I have till it’s ******? Should I stop driving immediately? Or can I still take it 2000km home before the snow flys in a month. Roughly how much are these to get fixed up in canada?

Damn it man. I bought this thing from a non dodge place out of town. Being out of town I only saw it once briefly before I went home and slept on it deciding to buy it. They got it looked at before I bought it, and dodge even suggested a fuel rail sensor I believe. A $1200 touch they paid for. So while it was there I requested buddy listen for SC bearing noise. They came back saying it was all good. Are they wrong? Is this normal car noise? Like I’ve only ever seen one run and it was this one. The dealer was super honest about a bunch of stuff and covered the sensor and a couple wheels that someone hit the curb once on. So I trusted them and trusted the second hand word of dodge being as there was no shop that would get me in for a third party “pre purchase check” is this normal ugh worst nightmare mN

Supercharger bearings?

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[Slowpoke387]

Does sound like bad bearings to me.

 

[ScLeCo]

Too bad you don't have a manufacturers warranty.

 

[tfolk88]

This is the biggest let down of my life I think. Tied to 100k used lemon

 

[Vet Rider]

Blower bearings. Let dealer order new blower and put it on ice. It’s going to be a while before they can get one.

 

[Xylander]

This is the biggest let down of my life I think. Tied to 100k used lemon

Well, you can have a $100k used lemon, or you can have a $110k Hellcat that works right after you fix it

I know that sometimes folks get emotional during buying high powered cars. It happens every day. I just hope next time, and maybe people watching this, will learn from it. I would personally rather lose a car than buy one without having it fully checked out. If there's no way to get it done, then I won't buy the car. I've made a few threads here documenting a few cars I was hot on buying, but I also posted their inspections and how all three of them failed in inglorious fashion. In fact, all 4 cars, to include the one I ultimately bought (the red C8), failed their inspections. I knew the C8 had a bad trans, but it was covered by the B2B warranty, so the risk wasn't there on that one.

The moral of the story is, at least in my experience, the majority of used high performance cars have serious problems. That's usually why people are trying to get rid of them. If it was a perfect car and within their budget, there's usually not grounds for selling it. Most times, something goes wrong and rather than pay to fix it (as seen in modded cars), they just cover up the issue as best as they can and try to sell it.

 

[akras]

That was really hard to miss... Anyway, if I were you I would chance it and drive it home keeping it at low RPMs (use manual mode if it's an A8), and then have the SC removed and shipped here:

Hellcat Supercharger rebuild – Jon Bond Performance LLC

Edit: it seems to be "out of stock". That sucks... Hope they start doing it again. Supposed to be better than new (I believe they use(d) better bearings).

 

[tfolk88]

Ya

 

[tfolk88]

That was really hard to miss... Anyway, if I were you I would chance it and drive it home keeping it at low RPMs (use manual mode if it's an A8), and then have the SC removed and shipped here:

Hellcat Supercharger rebuild – Jon Bond Performance LLC

Edit: it seems to be "out of stock". That sucks... Hope they start doing it again. Supposed to be better than new (I believe they use(d) better bearings).

I wouldn’t know man, never had a supercharged car, never heard one run other than this.

 

[tfolk88]

Well, you can have a $100k used lemon, or you can have a $110k Hellcat that works right after you fix it

I know that sometimes folks get emotional during buying high powered cars. It happens every day. I just hope next time, and maybe people watching this, will learn from it. I would personally rather lose a car than buy one without having it fully checked out. If there's no way to get it done, then I won't buy the car. I've made a few threads here documenting a few cars I was hot on buying, but I also posted their inspections and how all three of them failed in inglorious fashion. In fact, all 4 cars, to include the one I ultimately bought (the red C8), failed their inspections. I knew the C8 had a bad trans, but it was covered by the B2B warranty, so the risk wasn't there on that one.

The moral of the story is, at least in my experience, the majority of used high performance cars have serious problems. That's usually why people are trying to get rid of them. If it was a perfect car and within their budget, there's usually not grounds for selling it. Most times, something goes wrong and rather than pay to fix it (as seen in modded cars), they just cover up the issue as best as they can and try to sell it.

It’s probably silly to most but I have a ** horrible life. I was havin a major mid life crisis or something like it. Needed something to show for all the work I do. Couldn’t afford a new one so I took a swing for it and tried to own one nice thing again in life. Lesson for everyone out there just don’t bother with used, I shoulda just got a brand new 392

 

[juanagofast]

It’s probably silly to most but I have a ** horrible life. I was havin a major mid life crisis or something like it. Needed something to show for all the work I do. Couldn’t afford a new one so I took a swing for it and tried to own one nice thing again in life. Lesson for everyone out there just don’t bother with used, I shoulda just got a brand new 392

Just get a 2.7 blower and you'll be whole again. Shit happens.

 

[tfolk88]

Just get a 2.7 blower and you'll be whole again. Shit happens.

Just get a 2.7 blower and you'll be whole again. Shit happens.

What’s that 15k Canadian? Probably won’t get done this year

 

[tfolk88]

What’s that 15k Canadian? Probably won’t get done this year

Seriously I’m asking

 

[tfolk88]

Delete

 

[tfolk88]

Too bad you don't have a manufacturers warranty.

Ya man, if I wasn’t tied to this thing I would just buy a brand new one

 

[Xylander]

It’s probably silly to most but I have a fuckin horrible life. I was havin a major mid life crisis or something like it. Needed something to show for all the work I do. Couldn’t afford a new one so I took a swing for it and tried to own one nice thing again in life. Lesson for everyone out there just don’t bother with used, I shoulda just got a brand new 392

Well, Hellcats are just as expensive to keep on the road as they are to buy, unfortunately. Sorry to see you're going through this, but spend some time and try and locate a used blower. It still won't be cheap... 5-6k USD or so. It makes a lot more sense to do that than to firewall sell it. If it's going to bury you, fix the blower then sell it.

 

[WVHEMIS]

The silver lining in the cloud is that if you fix the blower and hold onto the car and take care of it you should be able to get your money back here in a few years. While just like the stock market nothing is a sure thing the long-term outlook is for Hellcat values to continue to rise.

 

[moparjim]

You will be able to drive that without issues for quite awhile. I have only heard of 1 or 2 that actually failed.
Keep an eye out for a blower for sale.
They do pop up from time to time. There was here in Quebec a little while ago with low mileage for $3500 or so. Shipping wouldn't be cheap due to the weight, but still better than trying to do the border crossing thing from the US. With exchange and duties witch will add taxes vs buying from someone here.
Mine made noise like that for over a year before the dealer decided to do something about it when it was on warranty.

 

[Blickie]

Ya man, if I wasn’t tied to this thing I would just buy a brand new one

Did you look into an Extended Warranty??

Like others have said, you can possibly get a used one (that you should have someone go thru before installing) or get yours rebuilt. That's what Canadian Winters are for

 

[16GoManGoHC]

I know a guy with a 2.7 off a 22 RE, he went to a Whipple 3.0 after 350 miles of break in on the motor. It’s like new, if your interested in it PM me.