I received your text and I have a 2000 Chrysler Concorde lx which bought from a used car dealership about 2004 to find out the car was a lemon and could not find the owner with who's dealership that went out of business and went bankrupted so I could not sue, so I had to fix myself so I had Malibu car maintance which is a repair shop in Babylon new York who took my motor and over hauled it., This is what was done to the engine. Before the motor started tapping from three places in the motor with had over 60,000 miles on it., , WORK THAT WAS DONE IN 2005, (Engine), 1.) Upper & lower complete gasket set was done. , 2.) Heads were put through a parts washer and sludge was removed , 3.) Engine block was refinished, 4.) Pistons, rods, crankshaft, bearing, oil pump, oil strainer, oil valley pan was replaced with new parts in 2005, (Transmission), 5.) When I had the engine over hauled I wanted the transmission overhauled too which was done in 2005, 5-a.) Fluid flush, transmission filter was replaced and transmission fluid was replaced with full synthic dot-3 , 5-b.) Transmission gasket was replaced, , Since the car was fixed I only used royal purple full synthetic 5w-20 oil and a can of restore to help with future oil sludge which was done every 2500 miles religiously., , The car sat in storage for 2 years due to not being in new york.When I got home in 2007 the car ran great and was just drove around 8,000 miles a year (had another car)., , , Present problems , , , , NUMBER 6 PITSTON NEEDS A NEW PITSON RING. IT A 6 HOUR JOB TO BE DONE I JUST DONT WANT TO DO ITEVEN KNOWING THE ENGINE ONLY HAS 40,000 MILE ON IT. IF I DO THE JOB I WOULD ASK 8500.00 DOLLARS FOR THE CAR FIRM. BECAUSE IM NOT FIXING IT IS BECAUSE I HAVE ANOTHER CAR AND WORK ALOT THE CAR CAN SIT WHERE IT IS SO IM NOT GIVING THE CAR AWAY. I HAD A CAMREA DOWN THE PISTON AND DID A COMPRESSTION TEST AND FOUND THE RING MOVED , , PARTS THAT WERE REPLACED FROM 2008--2011, (Brakes), 1a.) carbon fiber metallic pad (replaced every 6 months need or not), 1b.) rotors rear and front (replaced every 6 months need or not), 1c.) front brake hoes (replaced 2009), , (Hoses), 2a.) upper radiator hose (replaced 2008), 2b.) lower radiator hose (replaced 2008), 2c.) two vacuum hoses (replaced 2008), , (Sensors), 3a.) crank sensor (replaced 2009), 3b.) cam sensor (replaced 2009), 3c.) oil sending unit (replaced 2010), 3d.) mass air flow sensor (replaced 2011), , (Tune ups), 4a.) were done every 8,000 miles, Air filters were changed with ever oil change, 4b.) #3 ignition coil was replaced in 2010, (Ac), 5a.) ac compressor (replaced 2005, 2008, 2010), 5b.) refrigerant r134a and can of oil charge (vacuumed and replaced once a year), 5c.) ac condenser (replaced 2010), 5d.) ac evaporator [which is the heater core] (replaced 2010), , (Tires), 6a.) 235/65/16 (replaced twice during the time I had the car), , Weather striping , 7a.) front & rear driver side & passenger side doors (replaced 2011), 7b.) trunk (replaced 2011), , Belts, 8a.) belt tensioner (replaced 2010), 8b.) idler pulley (replaced 2009), 8c.) V-BELT (replaced 2009 , 8d.) AC-BELT (replaced 2009), , Modification ________, , Stereo, 9a.) Jensen 7" in dash stereo monitor model #VM9223 [which includes DVD, navigation, blue tooth, mp3 hook up, sd card unit, back up camera unit but not included was never purchased.] (Installed 2010), 9b.) Jensen navigation module model # NAV102 (installed 2010), 9c.) kicker’s model # crv12 [12" sub woofers with a RMS of 400 watt each] (installed 2005) , 9d.) Sony amplifier 1200 model # XM-401200GTX [4 channel amp] (installed 2005), , Rims & tires, 10a.) limited titans 20" aluminum rims with 5x100 offset (rims cost 2200.00 without tires) (bought 2010), 10b.) when rims were bought they were sent to rainbow powder coating in Plainview New York. The rims powder coated with p