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Recall, in the US, has specific meaning. It is a campaign where the manufacturer MUST remedy violation of the FMVSS—Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards—and involves mandatory reporting by the manufacturer to NHTSA of completion rates by quarter, among other things. “Recall” is used sloppily...

YouTube short--beat book time replacing 10th gen Civic AC condensors and compressor seals Lol.

It's not just the money. There's the downtime, the hassle, and, especially for the evaporator core, the invasiveness of the repair and potential for knock-on problems. Ours definitely makes more noises in the IP area than it did before it had to all come out.

Bulletproof, probably not. Better? Maybe. IIRC, superseding part numbers have been identified for several AC components elsewhere in this or other AC fail threads. All three evaporator cores I had in my 135i were the same part number. That's the largest single reason I sold the 135i when I...

I had a 2009 BMW 135i. In 21k miles and 5 years it went through two evaporators, both on warranty, but both requiring multiple days in the shop and incredibly invasive repairs. Both our 10th Gen Civic and 5th gen CR-V have had multiple AC issues. At least we've only had one evaporator core so...

To begin with, an R-1234YF AC machine. These *start* north of $1k.

Yeah. The part is relatively cheap. It's the labor that runs it up. One of the most invasive repairs there is.

If you can fog a mirror, you could get a job there, easy. Not sure what they pay. They are perennially way short of help and a lot more so recently. (Not to mention competent help.) I was there to pick up a special order part (a $0.86 unique trim clip ("Clip, L Cowl") that I'd noticed they also...

The other AC problem we had with the Civic for many moons that the dealer was utterly clueless as to how to diagnose/fix is that it didn't seem to react at all to interior temperature to regulate the "auto" climate control. I kept complaining, like four or five repair tickets worth an even a...

The evaporator in these cars is just as crap as the condenser. Sound like it failed and vented out. You may be able to get you dealer to work with Honda district manager to get customer sat warranty help. This is a very expensive and invasive repair. Good luck!

I bet there aren't many easy ways to save elsewhere in building a Civic. When you are about to make a million of something, you work *very* hard to eliminate all of those ahead of time. I bet they wish they'd put just a couple of bucks *more* into all the 10th gen AC components by now. The...

In general, I always defend the original engineers. They know more than we do. In specific, one can never ignore the possibility that they didn't do something like this because it would have added $0.98 to the parts bill making the car.

I've only ever had AC problems with three cars. We had a 2009 BMW 135i. It was on its third evaporator core when we sold it at almost five years and 22k miles. That model was notorious for this issue. Our 2016 Civic and 2018 CR-V have, between them, needed a compressor, return hose, clutch and...

They also compare to a reference value from properly inflated tires set during the TPMS Calibration procedure. Somehow, don't ask me how 'cause I've never figured it out, they've determined that the rotations are different for low pressure vs. calibrated reference pressure tires. This avoids the...

BTW, cadmium is not used in EV batteries. Because of its toxicity, its use has been phased out of all but a few products. (Solar cells being one.)

Not to mention that the environmental impact of an EVs battery production is spread over many years and/or miles, while the environmental impact of oil production and consumption accrues to every minute of operation of an ICE. And not to mention that the particular example chosen in this meme...

Our '16 Civic is in the shop now for replacement evaporator and expansion valve. (Yikes! They have to gut out the console and all other interior parts forward of the seats to do this job.) (Right now, this is on our nickel, but the dealer service manager did agree to see if the Honda DPSM is...

"normal leakage" from a closed-loop refrigeration system -- that's rich. So it's normal that Honda AC systems leak? Well, for this generation, apparently so. I don't know why they think there is an expansion valve issue. I'm totally guessing that it is replaceable from the engine bay, so not...

Ditto the question and situation. They replaced the condenser a year ago on Honda's nickel and it didn't fix the issue we were complaining about. (It may have had that problem as well, but it wasn't THE problem. I think last year they heard "A/C problem" and thought "I bet I know what it is and...

Hopefully, Hyundai gets it right. I so wanted to like the DCT in our 2012 Ford Focus Mk III. And on the rare occasions that it worked well--constant throttle, basically--it was great. Otherwise, it was a jerking, indecisive, piece of crap. And that's before getting into the reliability problems...