aldksgo
Senior Member
- First Name
- Mark
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2019
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- Location
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Vehicle(s)
- '19 FK8 R-24920, '14 FB2, '10 Impreza 2.5i
I got mine done last year.I’ve seen too many stories of people having damaged hoses and things not being put back where they should, at this point I don’t even want it covered under warranty
Upon receiving the car, CEL was present (I'm modded and tuned, but had no present lights to begin with). Found out they forgot to plug in one of the solenoids when putting the car back together. No big deal.. happens I guess.. although they would've surely seen the code when moving my car from the bay to the pickup.
A week or two later I'm on a cruise with with miss, and I decide to do a 3rd gear pull on the on ramp. I get choking/backfires at the top of the gear, and immediately I know something is up. On the way back I decide to log and do it again, and instantly get a CEL with a code on my hondata showing cylinder 4 misfire as expected.
Long story short now since re-writing this pisses me off, I go to a buddy's house and check out the plugs as two weeks PRIOR to getting it serviced for the valve cover gasket leak, I had gapped down my plugs as per tuner request. To my utter disgust, as we inspect cylinder 3 and 4 (1 and 2 clean and dry), the coil packs are dirty and have some dried residue, dirt, and BLUE. Plugs 3 and 4 are SOAKED with coolant, still able to wipe away with a cloth. It was all over the plugs, dried up on the coil packs, and deep down the wells/chamber.
Cleaned it as best as we could, and haven't had misfires since. However when bringing it up to the dealership who did it out of "good will" because I was modded, they said they never touched that and don't know how coolant got into the wells.
SO, that's my story. Make sure to check your car after getting warranty work. These scumbags decided to leave a bunch of things unchecked and if my theory is true (coolant hose right beside cyl 3 and 4), spilled coolant when replacing the valve cover (taking out coil packs) and decided to give the car back in this condition.