there is a 3 year warranty 36 k warranty & a 5 year 60 k warranty on the drivetrain that comes with a Honda Fit --these are basic warranties not the extended warranty. Shouldn't matter how you paid for the car.

 

Yeah, that would be a problem. It would leave the valve hanging in the cylinder. Hondas are typically "interference" engine designs, which means the piston would have come up and hit the hanging valve, likely bending it in the head, and possibly screwing up other related parts. This is close to a worst-case failure for an engine...

Breaking a valve spring is pretty unusual for an engine failure, so this is more a case of you just got (un)lucky...

The block is the big chunk of metal that contains most of the moving parts that you think of as being the engine.

 

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The original poster said his car had 97,000 km on it. My handy dandy conversion calculator equates 97,000 km to 60,273 miles. Hmmmm.....

 

The car has been fixed under warranty and is now back in my possession. It was found that the cam shaft was not turning with the crank. The cam sprocket bolt was found to be broken, and the crank had turned with the cam stuck in one position, so the pistons had hit the valves. They tore the engine down to find out more info.

"Found all 4 cam lobes for the #3 cylinder had severe damage, and camshaft could not be turned more than a half turn in either direction with a wrench. Found #3 lost motion spring had broken, and the hat that sits on top of the lost motion spring had come out of its bore in the rocker shaft assembly and become wedged beneath the front #3 exhaust cam lobe, preventing the shaft from turning. ...#2, 3, and 4 pistons all had severe damage"

The dealer wanted to replace the long block but apparently they don't make a long block yet for the 2nd gen fit because it is too new. They ended up replacing the cylinder head and short block. I also got a new clutch bearing out of the deal.

I still don't understand what "caused" all this to happen, but I'm guessing it's one of those one-in-a-million things where something wasn't quite right from factory. Exact mileage was 97,622km - I still have another 60,000km on warranty. All in all I'm happy with the way things turned out, it's just too bad I have to do another engine break in.

 

I am surprised they didn't just put a new engine into it.