brucer, you meant 'remanufactured'. Those pieces are actually changed. Rebuilt items are fine if there are no other problems besides the obvious cause of 1st failure (statistics would say not good I think). Salvaged parts can be the best finds parts-wise short of remanuf's. You don't have to worry about an OEM 'one outta ten' failure esp. if it's a chronic problem design-wise. Just ranting, correct me if I'm off.... Man, I hope that atx gets done under warranty! My fingers are crossed for ya. Good luck.

98 CSVT, basic mod's, my slowest car yet but still faster than the wife's Talon Tsi AWD. Not by much, though. Now if I could get the back wheels to do something....