My civic's engine blew up Part 2

[warwick108]

having a intake does not mean you revv your car hard.. so if a colored person stole a tv.. does it mean all colored people steal tvs? dont you think your over generalising? your basing all this crap on no evidence apart from your own opinion..

[destrukshn]

having a intake does not mean you revv your car hard.. so if a colored person stole a tv.. does it mean all colored people steal tvs? dont you think your over generalising? your basing all this crap on no evidence apart from your own opinion..

yet again, you use as whole different example.
you don't get a intake to drive like a granny, you get it for the noise and power it makes at higher RPM.
sure you may not do it all the time, but you do, do it.
no i'm not over generalising.
your just using a crap example of colored people stealing tv's.

[markCivicVti]

So bob_san, how deep was this supposed offending puddle? It would have to be deep enough to almost fully submerge the CAI pod under water... not just a little.

[Bob san]

i thought hondas liked a rev, this sounds like terrible luck mate, i have skipped through most of the thread, but bloody bottom line should be you buy the car to use it, not baby it. so honda should base their bloody warranty on if everyone redlined the things every day.

i certainly know i do.

well said mate. hondas are made to be revved. if not, then why did they even bother having vtec on all the new civics?

[panda[cRx]]

your intake was modded, you car was also apparently ridiculously overfilled with oil and it appears you've had water in your intake.... if you were on the other side of the fence would YOU approve it under warranty.

warranty is for manfacturing defects of the vehicle, which doesnt appear to be the case here.

also you are quick to bag out the dealership, which don't appear to have actually done anything wrong. they followed all the required steps and got honda australia involved. honda australia made the call and denied the repair under warranty. there is not much the dealer can do from there in that regard

honda aust in general bend over to please the customer unless the customer is clearly in the wrong

as for storage of the car that is then on you. why should the dealer have your car in their workshop taking up space? they are only a franchise, it's not like your car was at honda australia.
you car was there for months. if you had the car in an average city/inner suburban carpark the fees would have been well over $2k lol

well said mate. hondas are made to be revved. if not, then why did they even bother having vtec on all the new civics?

fuel economy

[Bob san]

your intake was modded, you car was also apparently ridiculously overfilled with oil and it appears you've had water in your intake.... if you were on the other side of the fence would YOU approve it under warranty.

warranty is for manfacturing defects of the vehicle, which doesnt appear to be the case here.

also you are quick to bag out the dealership, which don't appear to have actually done anything wrong. they followed all the required steps and got honda australia involved. honda australia made the call and denied the repair under warranty. there is not much the dealer can do from there in that regard

honda aust in general bend over to please the customer unless the customer is clearly in the wrong

as for storage of the car that is then on you. why should the dealer have your car in their workshop taking up space? they are only a franchise, it's not like your car was at honda australia.
you car was there for months. if you had the car in an average city/inner suburban carpark the fees would have been well over $2k lol


fuel economy

obiviosly you work for honda... its easy for you to say since its not your car.

obviously you nor honda don't give a rat's ass about their customers well being, only about revenue and profits. every since this incident happen, i had to quit my job, my parents had to buy another daily car. and did honda give a crap about all this? Nope. Offer any kind of solution to solve this problem? Nope.

their solution? point the finger at the stupid kid who modded his car. they must be thinking 'this little kent modded and blew up his own car, lets milk him for all his worth'. and they truly expect him, a 21year old struggling uni student to cought up 11g on his own. hows that for common sense?

do you even know why i left the car in the dealer? if i towed it back out do u think they are gona to let me tow in back in? and hows paying $420 for their 'diagnosis' of the engine problem, when they even havn't determined if it was under warranty or not?

when you buy a new car from them, they promise you the world. try go back to them with a problem, and they don't even want to know you.

[denot]

your intake was modded, you car was also apparently ridiculously overfilled with oil and it appears you've had water in your intake.... if you were on the other side of the fence would YOU approve it under warranty.

warranty is for manfacturing defects of the vehicle, which doesnt appear to be the case here.

also you are quick to bag out the dealership, which don't appear to have actually done anything wrong. they followed all the required steps and got honda australia involved. honda australia made the call and denied the repair under warranty. there is not much the dealer can do from there in that regard

honda aust in general bend over to please the customer unless the customer is clearly in the wrong

as for storage of the car that is then on you. why should the dealer have your car in their workshop taking up space? they are only a franchise, it's not like your car was at honda australia.
you car was there for months. if you had the car in an average city/inner suburban carpark the fees would have been well over $2k lol

hm... somehow i have to agree with his point of view here...

when you buy a new car from them, they promise you the world. try go back to them with a problem, and they don't even want to know you.

thats called salesman!!! no salesman ever bothered "taking care" of you after you purchase, most likely, a one off purchase like car, house, apartment, etc. If its a "rental" purchased (e.g. software rental licence, etc), then they will keep on supporting you coz they're affraid that you stop renewing the licence from them.

[panda[cRx]]

obiviosly you work for honda... its easy for you to say since its not your car.

obviously you nor honda don't give a rat's ass about their customers well being, only about revenue and profits. every since this incident happen, i had to quit my job, my parents had to buy another daily car. and did honda give a crap about all this? Nope. Offer any kind of solution to solve this problem? Nope.

their solution? point the finger at the stupid kid who modded his car. they must be thinking 'this little kent modded and blew up his own car, lets milk him for all his worth'. and they truly expect him, a 21year old struggling uni student to cought up 11g on his own. hows that for common sense?

yes 11k is alot of money.... so why would honda fork out 11k when it's not a defect of the car? "oh shit he's a student, we better pay for it all then!"

my dealership and i look after our customers very well, honda is generally quite good as i said. this time it is unfortunate for you that the repair costs are so high but it's not honda's (or your dealers) fault imo

[markCivicVti]

Tho you gotta admit Panda, they should at least provide a 'official' report on what their official stance is... as in what is wrong and why it's not covered under warranty - be it due to the cai sucking in water or just excess revving.

Either way Bob_san isn't arguing their decision to not cover the repair. As I said earlier.. he's just unhappy with how he *felt* treated.

Anywho.. when I was a uni student (almost 2 yrs ago now) I was driving a hand-me-down festiva... what a beast.. wish i had a nice civic then.

Get a loan and fix up the car... get one through your parents and work your butt off on paying them back. No more modding for you!! (till its paid off)

[dc2dc2dc2]

Just accept that its your own fault.
Lesson learnt is this journey we call life.
11k is alot of money i agree, but remember Honda is not a charity they are a business and the aim of a business is to make money.
Bad luck to you man.
Sell the car, see what u can get for it.
Not trying to stir shit or anything,
But i know of people who have seen you drive
and they say you are not exactly 3rpm shift type.

[tokyonite]

overall, i reckon you should have put all da original parts back before you went back to honda, you might get a differnt outcome if you did so.

[DR HONDA]

Should have de modded vehicle before entering your dealer. You are in every right that it should not have failed and this is a interesting topic to follow to see if honda will pay for the repair. CAI and Exhaust shouldnt kill a HONDA engine but then again the THAI product is showing its true colours.