After thinking my hesitation had gone the car started to stagger a little bit today during one drive, which annoyed me, but as I was cleaning the EGR tonight anyway I thought I'd have a close look at it then...
When I stripped everything down there was black crud everywhere - the MAP was totally gunked, the large intake tube had a coating and the IMRC was thick with it too. While cleaning all these up (again) I wondered just how they'd got so oily so quickly... so I checked the oil, while it was warm to see this...
The only thing I can say is oh S**t!! The oil looks like it's been overfilled big time and it has to have been when my local Honda serviced it 4,000 miles ago. To say I am fuming is putting it mildly - most especially because I'm normally religious about checking this - annoyingly the hesitation stuff has totally distracted me recently. I'm off first thing tomorrow to the local dealer by my work to get some of the oil drained, but come the weekend i'm going to be on the warpath at the one that did the service.
Urgent question - how bad could this be? Is there a good chance of engine damage? If so what's my best next step, as if it's resulted in engine damage then I want the dealer that ****ed up to foot the bill. I could really do with some advice on this!
When I stripped everything down there was black crud everywhere - the MAP was totally gunked, the large intake tube had a coating and the IMRC was thick with it too. While cleaning all these up (again) I wondered just how they'd got so oily so quickly... so I checked the oil, while it was warm to see this...
The only thing I can say is oh S**t!! The oil looks like it's been overfilled big time and it has to have been when my local Honda serviced it 4,000 miles ago. To say I am fuming is putting it mildly - most especially because I'm normally religious about checking this - annoyingly the hesitation stuff has totally distracted me recently. I'm off first thing tomorrow to the local dealer by my work to get some of the oil drained, but come the weekend i'm going to be on the warpath at the one that did the service.
Urgent question - how bad could this be? Is there a good chance of engine damage? If so what's my best next step, as if it's resulted in engine damage then I want the dealer that ****ed up to foot the bill. I could really do with some advice on this!