Brought our 2015 Honda Fit into the dealership for a valve adjustment
#22
that was a close one , but not for nothing , the dealership actually told you there was a missing lock-nut ?
and your mechanic found no such thing ? i'd be firing off an angry letter to Honda , that's fraud , seriously . better still if you've
got anything on paper . tell them you're gonna write to consumers
and your mechanic found no such thing ? i'd be firing off an angry letter to Honda , that's fraud , seriously . better still if you've
got anything on paper . tell them you're gonna write to consumers
#23
Get real. The dealership will simply say that the mechanic decided to replace the missing locknut for free when he reassembled things so that you wouldn't be driving around without it. End result dealership=hero and you=scumbag for making wild unfounded allegations.
#25
The dealership informed me that because a locknut was missing and one was loose on two of the valves and that they would need to replace the whole engine. To which I was not very pleased with. I am not particularly savvy with cars, but I'm not completely clueless.
This suggestion seems pretty extreme and from what I've read, a locknut can go missing within the cylinder head and retrieved. So I'm hoping that is correct. The car runs, it goes into limp mode when it's started but after warming up it drives relatively normally, outside of some erratic idling, hence needing the valve adjustment. I'm taking the car to a local mechanic on Tuesday, but my main question is, am I off base, and does the engine really need to be replaced? Or I am correct that this issue can be resolved by taking it to another mechanic. I scoured the forums trying to find a thread that could possibly give me some answers, but couldn't find anything. Any knowledge or help would be greatly appreciated.
This suggestion seems pretty extreme and from what I've read, a locknut can go missing within the cylinder head and retrieved. So I'm hoping that is correct. The car runs, it goes into limp mode when it's started but after warming up it drives relatively normally, outside of some erratic idling, hence needing the valve adjustment. I'm taking the car to a local mechanic on Tuesday, but my main question is, am I off base, and does the engine really need to be replaced? Or I am correct that this issue can be resolved by taking it to another mechanic. I scoured the forums trying to find a thread that could possibly give me some answers, but couldn't find anything. Any knowledge or help would be greatly appreciated.
I could be mistaken but it seems to me that a missing locknut will cause the valve lash to go rapidly out of adjustment, and no matter which valve it is, the cylinder won't provide a normal level of power, and as soon as that happens, which would be only a few minutes after the nut gets lost, the OBD2 system should turn on the check engine light, and at that point a scan tool should show a misfire on the cylinder with the maladjusted valve.
#27
that's why i hate the idea of leaving my car with a dealership , been avoiding bringing my fit down to get the fuel pump recall taken care of.
i'm tempted to give them some story so they just give me the new pump , i can install it myself . it shouldn't matter to them . they just have you sign
the paper , the recall is covered . i remember doing that years ago with the igniter on my '90 civic . i brought the failed part to the dealer to match
it up and it turned out to be a recall item . they handed me a new one and had me sign the paper , done .was a $90 part . that said , a missing lock nut ?
that can't be good ,good chance it should still be sitting up in the head somewhere , if not , i guess you could look under the timing chain cover or in the oil pan , and then there's the potential of a damaged valve . , at the least , there's alot of labor on this one . good luck
i'm tempted to give them some story so they just give me the new pump , i can install it myself . it shouldn't matter to them . they just have you sign
the paper , the recall is covered . i remember doing that years ago with the igniter on my '90 civic . i brought the failed part to the dealer to match
it up and it turned out to be a recall item . they handed me a new one and had me sign the paper , done .was a $90 part . that said , a missing lock nut ?
that can't be good ,good chance it should still be sitting up in the head somewhere , if not , i guess you could look under the timing chain cover or in the oil pan , and then there's the potential of a damaged valve . , at the least , there's alot of labor on this one . good luck
So I let them do it. How much damage could you do when putting them in. The answer is not too much damage, but you can make a mess. You could rip the headliner when replacing the grab handle bracket but the headliner did not look ripped. You could neglect to replace the plastic film humidity-control sheet in each door, when replacing the door handle brackets. Well, they replaced the plastic film, fairly close to the way it is supposed to be replaced, but not quite correctly. One small section that is supposed to go under something, they put it over the thing. But no big deal really. What the did do is get the black sealing compound adhesive that is used to hold the film to the door, onto the window glass, so every time I rolled a window down, and then up, the goop would get on the window. A couple times I cleaned it off with a solvent, but each time when I rolled the windows down-and-up the goop would get on them again. So I had to take the door panels off, reposition the plastic film, making sure to keep sealer away from the glass. Had to do this for all 4 doors. With the panels off I did smell the fact that they sprayed something on the door inner metal surfaces where the new brackets go – it was to control rust the work sheet said. I have a feeling that they actually did not replace the grab handle brackets because the headliner was perfectly in place when they finished and I doubted they were capable of placing it so well. I mean – it looked just like it had looked from the factory. But they billed Honda for doing that. I didn't want to pull back the headliner to check because I didn't feel confident that I could do it neatly. I had no problem with the door panels but I was not confident about the headliner.
There is a reason people call dealerships stealerships.
Last edited by nomenclator; 12-30-2020 at 03:27 PM.
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