honda get most reliable engine award.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:53 pm

well done honda

Sham they are in mostly boring cars nowadays

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:06 pm

An engine failure on a Range Rover Vogue recently led to Warranty Direct’s highest ever claim of £13,000.

WTF?!

That's ridiculous. Surely even a new engine in a Range Rover and labour to fit at main dealer shouldn't cost that much?!

And does the "top/bottom 10" only show the top 5 for anyone else, or is it just me?

Putting MG Rover in there is a bit pointless really, since their newest car is 8 years old now. Those failures will all be full of overheating because owners forgot to check the coolant header tank is full on K-Series engines, or from head gasket failures on the vvt MGTF engine I bet. Personally, I found the K-Series was a brilliant engine.

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:37 pm

We just put a new petrol engine in a new accord. That was 10k

. Crank thrust washer failure.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:16 pm

And I bet you never knew your preludes with daylight running lights as standard?

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/c ... a-internal

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:18 pm

Fook off

how the drokk can it cost that much? I could order and deliver a brand new Ford 5.2l race preped crate motor for that. Whats the crank made out of? Crank?

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:21 pm

@wurly:

who knew. Just an 'automatic' turning of the switch and hey presto.

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:45 pm

The cylinder head and block inc vat and fitting was 10k in total. Warranty paid!!

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:07 pm

wow. thats seriously a lot of money for an engine. in my humble book that is

Just think about what you could buy from Ricerockets or someone for that...

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:51 pm

I find it hard to believe the figures: "Honda scooped the gold medal – the study found that just one in every 344 Honda engines failed, compared to one in every 27 Audi engines."

If 1 in 344 engines failed, even the 'gold medal' cars were less than reliable than their 1950s equivalents. There were 2,044,609 new cars registered in the UK in 2012 (cf. Car magazine). Even if they were all Hondas, that means 6000 will suffer engine failure a year.

I suppose it depends what they mean by 'engine'. If a piston goes, fair enough, but does a coil pack count? The aftermath of a blown hose could easily stuff an engine, especially if the driver's a berk (like I have been in the past ...) but I don't consider that to mean that the engine itself failed.

Post by **Thebusofwoe** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:57 pm

Yea rite, good point. Where did they pluck 344 from anyways?!?