Japanese Engines imported from Japan

Japanese Engines imported from Japan

Japan is home for Acura, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Diahatsu, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Lexus, Infiniti, Subaru, Scion and Isuzu. Japanese transportation policies are made to protect the growth of its Auto manufacturers. In Japan vehicles are recycled early, approx within five years. This is the reason why the local demand for Brand New Vehicles is high. It is not in Japanese culture to buy used items. Therefore it is not required to have Auto Repair shops, Body shops and after-market parts because vehicles are recycled so early. Dealers do regular servicing according to the vehicle instruction manuals.

This is one of the main reasons why there are so many good working Japanese engines imported from Japan into United States. Japan exports Auto Engines, Transmissions and body parts to several countries around the world. Some Engines and transmissions have only 15,000-20,000 Kms only which is considered as almost brand new. Therefore the quality of Japanese Used auto-parts, Used engines & Used transmissions is very good. We traveled to countries in South America like Chile, Peru, Bolivia etc  in December 2012 to study the automotive market in Latin America. We witnessed a roll-on-roll-off ship full of 10,000 used vehicles at Iquique port of Chile, after further investigation we found out all these vehicles were imported from Japan. Chile is a trade free zone and people from neighboring countries like Boliva, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay come to purchase all kinds of things. They don't have a sea port so Iquique port is the closest entry port for them. We saw a lot of importers selling Japanese Engines , Japanese Transmissions and used auto parts.

This is the reason why there are very few companies who can get a good assortment of parts & engines from Japan because most in-demand merchandise gets sold to these countries.

Japanese engines from Japan

Everyone is now buying low mileage Japanese-engines these days because Junk Yards in USA don't have any good engines. No Salvage yard in the U.S will every test their engines. Engines come out from crashed cars so most engines have block cracked, mounts broken, oil pump smashed or brackets of Air Condition compressor, Alternator or Power steering pump is broken. Most people rely on visual inspection of the engine at junk yard before buying but 50% of the times visual inspection is totally deceptive. Even if one starts the vehicle to see if the engine runs, it is not enough because a four cylinder engine can have one or two cylinders which have bad compression which goes unnoticed even if the motor is running. Actual Compression test is required to find out health of the cylinders. One must keep in mind one logic i.e if you need an engine for 1994 Honda Civic, we must count average mileage driven in U.S is around 50,000 miles in a year so after 19 years the car may have 19 x 50,000=950,000 miles. Isn't this scary ? Average mileage driven in US is around 40,000-50,000 miles so anything over 3 years has 80% failure rate if bought from a junk yard in U.S. Why take this risk when we have better options, although these options are limited. The best option is to find a good vendor who has been established for years and is dedicated towards testing every mechanical aspect of the engines and sells Japanese Engines imported from Japan.

We all know Japan has restrictions that force Japanese people to drive just for five years and average mileage driven there is around 15,000 miles each year. Therefore these are considered as safest engines that offer better value for your buck. They last long and are very affordable. Each Japanese motor is fully tested, steam cleaned and professionally packed before shipment. Also they come with six months limited warranty, whereas tired, high mileage, low quality engines from Junk yards offer just 30 days warranty.