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honda get most reliable engine award.
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:53 pm
by lewd lude lover
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:06 pm
by wurlycorner
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:37 pm
by Thebusofwoe
We just put a new petrol engine in a new accord. That was 10k
. Crank thrust washer failure.
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:16 pm
by wurlycorner
And I bet you never knew your preludes with daylight running lights as standard?
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/c ... a-internal
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:18 pm
by lewd lude lover
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?
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:21 pm
by lewd lude lover
@wurly:
who knew. Just an 'automatic' turning of the switch and hey presto.
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:45 pm
by Thebusofwoe
The cylinder head and block inc vat and fitting was 10k in total. Warranty paid!!
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:07 pm
by lewd lude lover
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...
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:51 pm
by Sailor
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:57 pm
by Thebusofwoe
Yea rite, good point. Where did they pluck 344 from anyways?!?
