I am aware of this fact, I was using it to illustrate a point. That said, there are other things that require some amount of tear down, including water pump, thermostats, etc.
How many miles on the Civic?
880 miles!
Awfully nice of the dealer to do that. If you'd said 50, I would have been less surprised. I wonder (would be surprised) if they got Honda to approve that. If not, they are probably going to end up paying for it.
So does it stand to reason to you that going into the recall inspection Honda already knows it's limited to one circlip per piston(4 per engine) and all on the same side because of the methodology of their manufacturing process?
No it doesn't. Because I don't know that they set the snap rings sided--i.e., their assembly method. They may use the same tool and turn the piston around to set the second ring. Or their issue may have applied to their tooling for both sides. We have no clue.
There has been one hearsay cite in the forums I follow of a dealer car that exhibited symptoms and was diagnosed with internal damage resulting from this issue. Beyond that:
It has been stated several times in this thread by @StevieOntario that a car with more than a hundred miles on it is very unlikely to have this problem and not presented symptoms. This seems entirely reasonable. With 3,000 miles and no symptoms you are highly likely to have all the snap rings exactly where they are supposed to be.
Many cars of the last decade have recommended 10K miles between oil changes under normal conditions, so 70% at 3K miles does not sound unreasonable at all.
There is no magic number of miles. When the Maintenance Minder says you are down to 15% life seems like a good time to schedule it. At that point it will start letting you know.
Mine is 2016 civic EX, MFG dec 2015, honda america indiana factory, it is not in affected list. i think it is based on facility where it is manufactured.
The facility (and date range) where the Engine (not the vehicle) was manufactured.
Oh ok, is there way to find that where engine is manufactured ? by the way anyone knows what are factories manufactured engines are affected? (Alliston, Ontario, Greensburg, Indiana?)
