I have a BMW cylinder head with bent valves waiting for the next white elephant exchange I go to.
Vehicle:
BMW
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3rd is Dorman aluminum. Cylinder head around 128kish. Valve cover gasket and most recent was dreaded tick on the passenger side. Fixed that and good as new.
Pros: good as new
Vehicle:
Jeep
Mileage: 178823 km
Daily driver that's had a cylinder head replacement (warranty), on its 3rd oil filter housing(aluminum now, 1st 2 warranty, thermostat, rear bearings went toast at around 150k and had the tick on 1 side.
Pros: aluminum now
Cons: rear bearings toast
Vehicle:
Jeep
Mileage: 176000 km
I recently purchased a 2022 Tacoma and when I left for work the next morning the dreaded P11EC code came on. Lucky for me the truck had 59,450 miles so it was still inside its powertrain warranty and it’s being repaired by Toyota right now. I’ve had the loaner longer than I’ve had possession of my “new” truck.
Pros: repaired under warranty
Cons: part failure, long repair time
Vehicle:
Toyota
Mileage: 59450 km
The cylinder head failure for the 4cyl m264 engine has been given a warranty extension by MB Canada ONLY! Faulty design ruins the exhaust valves.
Pros: warranty extension in Canada
Cons: faulty design, ruins valves
2023 Tiguan @ ~52,000 miles. I took mine to the dealer after getting low oil lights. I had no oil puddles, so I knew it was burning it somehow. They took a camera and did their tests and told me they are replacing the cylinder head.
Pros: dealer replacing cylinder head
Cons: burning oil
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
Mileage: 52000 km
Those "cracks" are not due to running out of oil. In fact those are not "cracks" that damage is due to poor casting work at the foundry that molded the cylinder head.
Pros: poor casting work
Cons: KIA has bad reputation
I had the same issue with my 21 TRD sport at 19k miles. They ended up finding “excessive scaring” in multiple cylinder heads. I ended up getting a new short block under warranty. The whole ordeal took a month and the ticket was $18k. I traded the truck in 2 days after I got it back.
Pros: replaced under warranty
Cons: excessive scarring, long repair time
Vehicle:
Toyota
Mileage: 19000 km
Just had my 2020 Limited Tacoma threw an error code, after 6 hours of diagnostics it was a bad manufactured cylinder head. Lucky for me, I'm 4 months past the warranty (only 48k miles though instead of the 60k on the PT warranty), so now Toyota WILL NOT help at all.
Cons: bad manufactured, no warranty support
Vehicle:
Toyota
Mileage: 48000 km
ended up going 350,000 miles before one of the heads blew
Cons: blew
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 350000 km
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