A good routine flush of your antifreeze coolant system helps us avoid this problem. Eventually, the un-flushed coolant/debris mixture, in your radiator, turns into a brown sludge that can clog vital parts in your radiator hose and other parts of your engine, leading to engine overheating. Hino Truck, Honda 600, Honda Accord, Honda Acty, Honda Civic, Honda Clarity. Deteriorated coolant becomes acidic and eats away at metal cooling system components in your radiator and other parts of the engine. 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008. If you’ve got antifreeze gunk build-up in your radiator or radiator hose, your car is long overdue for a coolant flush. That’s why you should have your coolant flushed per the recommended service schedule. But you don’t want to let it get to that point. In some cases, if the coolant goes long enough without service, it will start to darken and become brownish in color. Make sure to flush your antifreeze coolant at the time and mileage recommended by the automaker. Most dealers i talked to in Houston areas have seen many cases of these, so nationwide you can guess how many could be there… I was thinking of low probability until this all happened.Don’t wait until your coolant is discolored and funky looking. Honda dont give any consideration of my long standing Honda loyalty (i owned 3 honda vehicles),and regular service history/oil changes etc… they just told this is outside of 10yr ext warranty…Ĭar was in very good running condition until this problem just popped up…Had spent almost 1200k on various recommended maintenance work in the past 1 year, hoping i could keep it for couple more years given the low mileage…no warnings, until one day coolant smell and overheating, stopped the vehicle, towed it to the dealer and just 3 weeks later I am looking for a scrap buyer…Īnyone driving a Honda Civic out there from these defective VIN series, better get rid of your vehicle before this happens to you…while there are only a low % cars with these defects, it is not 100s but easily in many thousands… Honda conveniently will never disclose those numbers… They will not even respond to you in email or writing on these cases… Given the age of the car only option for me is to scrap than spending 3500 on it, Only one complaint on carcomplaints so I left it out to keep from making the defect rate look even smaller.įinally i got engine block crack on my Honda civic 2008 – with only 78k miles on it, local dealer quoted $3500 for the repair (replacing the engine)…Worked with honda over past 3 weeks, they were of no help, refused to do anything further. ^Yes I know a handful of 2009 were included in the TSB. If Honda had to replace a million engine blocks they would go bankrupt and they seem to be doing just fine. Most owners probably aren’t even aware there’s an issue. I still see a TON of 8th gen Civics rolling happily down the road every day so I’m guessing these cracked blocks are highly unusual and small in number. And only 9 reports so far in 2018 so you get the feeling most of the weak blocks have already failed and been dealt with so your chances of getting a crack are pretty slim now over 10 years in.Īt any rate after doing a little research I’m not that concerned. But even if you said only 3% are being reported that’s still less than a 1% defect rate. Yes not every cracked block is being reported but it’s a big enough deal so that quite a few would be. Honda sold over one million Civics in the affected years 2006 - 2008^ and there are 289 total complaints on carcomplaints, something like a. I just bought a 2006 Civic 1.8l and was wondering the same thing. And if you get an overheating experience even after doing all this, don’t try to cool it off by pouring cold water on a hot engine. If it is only a visual indicator for overheating, ask around if there’s a way to install an aftermarket audio alarm for coolant overheating. Does your car have an audio alarm if the coolant gets too hot? If so, and you hear an alarm, pull over and turn off the engine asap. Make sure the engine compartment fans are turning on when they should and doing their thing. If there’s ever any signs of coolant leaking, get that corrected right away. Monitor the coolant level, and replace the coolant with Honda approved coolant every 2 years. Put a mark on the gauge where the normal operating temperature is. Monitor the dashboard coolant temperature gauge, and if it ever behaves abnormally, even if it isn’t overheating, even if it is lower than normal, get the car to the shop. A single overheating experience can crack the block. Do what you can to avoid the engine overheating experience.
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