News article on Hondas

[Tleg93]

http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/09/news/in ... tm?cnn=yes

Oh my lord.

[entirelyturbo]

Strange. I've seen Subarus that practically dump oil right on their exhaust manifolds without any such incidents...

[THAWA]

The only thing I can think of is the tech isn't tightening the filter down, or the filter is faulty. All honda's (4 cyl) have a similar layout, where the filter is directly above the cat or something, so I can't say I doubt that the oil is burning straight onto the exhaust. I'mm with honda on this though, wwhy is it only happening on 03-04 crv's? But is oil really that volitile? Interesting.

[vrg3]

I wonder if there's a combination of problems. Maybe 03-04 CRVs are more likely to misfire, so the cat gets really hot, so the oil falling on it really ignites instead of just smoking off.

[THAWA]

but wouldn't there have to be a LOT of oil falling out of the engine to cause this?

[vrg3]

Seems like it, yeah.

[evolutionmovement]

I thought Honda was having several problems with the CRVs. I wonder of there's a fuel leak also. I've seen plenty of cars with exhausts stained black or caked with a think layer of oil, but never seen one do anything more than look terrible by smoking.

Steve

[LaureltheQueen]

bad press for honda