Car died on the side of the road. Let's guess what's wrong

[silversilvia]

From what I understand it is bad assembly.

 

[highplainsdrifter]

This blows my mind, every Honda that I've ever had be it car, motorcycle, or ATV has been a stalwart of reliability.

 

[Dennis Rockholt]

Yes what webby said^^^

 

[greene907]

warranty

 

[Vahag Chakerian]

Would the greddy intake avoid warranty ?

 

[greene907]

if they could trace it back to that, then yes, you could take it off and put the stock one back on maybe
http://www.9thcivic.com/forum/threads/magnuson-moss-warranty-act.7422/

 

[silversilvia]

just got an update and confirmed it was the same problem everyone has been having. i have been told the head was sent out to the machine shop and all parts are ordered to put it back together by the end of the week. they do not think i need to replace anything else. all covered under warranty ofcourse

my question to the guru on this site is that will anything they are doing here affect the driving? i dont want to get the car back with less power than it did.

i will be driving a 84 mecedes 300D for a week and a half at that point and jumping in that car it will feel like a ferrari, but i dont want to to have less power than it did.

wish i had more info and i will post what was done on the print out when i pick it up

thanks

 

[PMMcivicFB2]

Sub'd

 

[Bulkybear]

If anything it would probably feel better after you get it back with all those new parts

 

[silversilvia]

Got the car back today. Official cause is "code p0404 no compression on #4 cylinder due to #4 vtec rocker came apart"

It damaged the cylinder head, so that was replaced along with chain tensioner guide.

Car feels fine and got a free oil change out of it.

 

[Poko]

just got an update and confirmed it was the same problem everyone has been having. i have been told the head was sent out to the machine shop and all parts are ordered to put it back together by the end of the week. they do not think i need to replace anything else. all covered under warranty ofcourse

my question to the guru on this site is that will anything they are doing here affect the driving? i dont want to get the car back with less power than it did.

i will be driving a 84 mecedes 300D for a week and a half at that point and jumping in that car it will feel like a ferrari, but i dont want to to have less power than it did.

wish i had more info and i will post what was done on the print out when i pick it up

thanks

did they give you an idea of why this happened?

 

[silversilvia]

Nope. But I take it from the other thread as bad assembly. I really hope it's not a bad part. Not knowing if the new head will go in another 6000.

 

[Poko]

A bad assembly means what? ALL THE si's have a bad vtec rockers. Does this mean a recall?

 

[Poko]

The reason why I ask is because I baby my car but one in a while I do stretch her legs.

 

[Dennis Rockholt]

I am stopping by the dealer locally to see if Honda has issued any news for it...I will keep you updated on what they say

 

[silversilvia]

Don't take what I mean to be the official reason by any means. It was just a comment made by someone on another forum that the parts looked okay and when he tried to put it back it seemed tight and should work and therefore said it was probably not installed right. Obviously some of us don't have problems and some had them.

My tech said to treat it like a new car and don't drive hard or go over 60 mph for the first 500 miles. Anyone agree to this? I want easy on it when it was new and didn't think heads needed to be broken in.

 

[silversilvia]

Also I don't believe in break in periods to begin with so maybe I answered my own question.

 

[Dennis Rockholt]

Since I have just over 20,000 miles I am assuming (and hoping) that I dont run into any issues. As of now Vtec soounds and works great through every gear

 

[Bulkybear]

Shouldn't need a break in period for head work. Hell break in periods arent really that important anymore. Just drive it like you want to. New or not.

 

[Dennis Rockholt]

I also however babied my car for the first 4-5k miles so maybe that helped too