Randomly Blown Bottom End

[askro]

Have not a clue what happened, was driving in 6th at like 2800 rpm steady and boom something blew out of the block. Waiting for tow to dealership now and will find out what happened later I suppose. No logs or nothing as the car is stock with just coil packs and an intake... no clue what the issue was but the car is “pre-owned certified” so I better be getting this covered.

No boost was involved.

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[Barticus520]

Crazy. Hopefully covered. Maybe the previous owner did something.

 

[spyder57]

That is nuts. Sounds like the previous owner probably did some crazy tuning and the CPO process didn't catch it. It's usually a pretty lazy process...

 

[ManitobaSI]

Sorry this happened to you. Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[chattanoogaR]

Any chance there is a long trail of oil behind you in that photo? There is not very much on the ground.

 

[dwag0588]

What’s your mileage? I wonder if the first owner had tuned it in a sketchy way. A frequent user of anti-lag would have dramatically weakened the internals, for example.

 

[askro]

What’s your mileage? I wonder if the first owner had tuned it in a sketchy way. A frequent user of anti-lag would have dramatically weakened the internals, for example.

Almost 19,000 I only put 7500~ miles on the car with limited spirited driving... with the such short gearing it is an easy car to baby so I just don’t understand

 

[askro]

Any chance there is a long trail of oil behind you in that photo? There is not very much on the ground.

 

[Si_chRis]

Why does the engine have aftermarket coil packs?

 

[whytfwontthiswork]

any recent maintenance/repair done? possibility of oil leak/light on that you didnt notice? very weird. intrested to see the outcome. for a major internal failure like that it must have had a lingering issue..... goodluck!

 

[jasonjm]

Why does the engine have aftermarket coil packs?

And injen air intake, aftermarket headlights and tails all around. Not that the lights matter, BUT it looks modded to me. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is lot more stuff. Those Coil pack wires also look suspicious as previous comment pointed out.

Unless you did these mods?

 

[Si_chRis]

@askro, I saw that you put Lucas Oil Stabilizer in your engine in another thread on here to reduce an engine ticking sound you were experiencing. Was it still in your engine at the time this happened?

 

[TheCanadian]

I have been beating on the car on the KTuner 1.1 basemap. I believe the low-end torque has created some sort of valve issue.

I wouldn't count on any help from the dealership based on this post from the other thread.....

 

[JT Si]

I wouldn't count on any help from the dealership based on this post from the other thread.....

Apparently he never managed to get it to the dealer despite the appointments he made so he simply kept driving it until it blew. Smart!

 

[princeRS]

so your “certified” car came with ktuner and then you switched to hondata / added coilpacks (as per your posts in other threads)? youre gonna be in for a bad time my friend ?

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